Fantasies of Love and Death in Life and Art
A Psychoanalytic Study of the Normal and the Pathological
Author: Helen K. Gediman
Love and death are prevalent motifs in legend, art, literature, and opera, as well as in the fantasies of most people. In art and life, the love/death archetype transcends culture, time, and geography.
This book addresses two kinds of fantasies of love and death, one the passionate wish to die together with a loved one, the other the desire to extend one's life—and loves—after death. Illustrating how these love/death phenomena span a continuum from the normal to the pathological, Helen Gediman delves into the psychoanalytic meanings of these fantasies and motifs, as embedded in the arts, as well as in the human psyche.
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Love and death are prevalent motifs in legend, art, literature, and opera, as well as in the fantasies of most people. In art and life, the love/death archetype transcends culture, time, and geography.
This book addresses two kinds of fantasies of love and death, one the passionate wish to die together with a loved one, the other the desire to extend one's life—and loves—after death. Illustrating how these love/death phenomena span a continuum from the normal to the pathological, Helen Gediman delves into the psychoanalytic meanings of these fantasies and motifs, as embedded in the arts, as well as in the human psyche.
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Love and death are prevalent motifs in legend, art, literature, and opera, as well as in the fantasies of most people. In art and life, the love/death archetype transcends culture, time, and geography.
This book addresses two kinds of fantasies of love and death, one the passionate wish to die together with a loved one, the other the desire to extend one's lifeand lovesafter death. Illustrating how these love/death phenomena span a continuum from the normal to the pathological, Helen Gediman delves into the psychoanalytic meanings of these fantasies and motifs, as embedded in the arts, as well as in the human psyche.
Critic Reviews
“"Drawing on the Tristan and Iseult myth, the operas of Wagner, Northern Italian Renaissance painting and sculpture, Dr. Gediman's study is a splendid example of psychoanalysis skillfully applied to literature and art...This well written work breaks new ground." -Joseph Reppen,Editor, Psychoanalytic Books: A Quarterly Journal of Reviews”
"Drawing on the Tristan and Iseult myth, the operas of Wagner, Northern Italian Renaissance painting and sculpture, Dr. Gediman's study is a splendid example of psychoanalysis skillfully applied to literature and art...This well written work breaks new ground." --Joseph Reppen,Editor, Psychoanalytic Books: A Quarterly Journal of Reviews
About the Author
Helen K. Gediman is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City.
Love and death are prevalent motifs in legend, art, literature, and opera, as well as in the fantasies of most people. In art and life, the love/death archetype transcends culture, time, and geography. This book addresses two kinds of fantasies of love and death, one the passionate wish to die together with a loved one, the other the desire to extend one's life and loves after death. Illustrating how these love/death phenomena span a continuum from the normal to the pathological, Helen Gediman delves into the psychoanalytic meanings of these fantasies and motifs, as embedded in the arts, as well as in the human psyche.
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