The vale of soulmaking : post-Kleinian model of the mind and its poetic origins
The post-Kleinian model of the mind, as developed by W. R. Bion and Donald Meltzer, is essentially an aesthetic one. It is founded on Melanie Klein's discovery of the "internal object" with its combined masculine and feminine qualities and ambiguous, awe-inspiring nature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xix, 251 pages ; 23 cm
9781855753105, 1855753103
60575943
Foreword , Introduction , The stroke of the axe , The evolution of Psyche , Milton as Muse , The fall and rise of Eve , Oedipus at the crossroads , The weavings of Athene , Cleopatra’s monument , Creativity and the countertransference , Post-Kleinian poetics , Rosemary’s roots , Confessions of an emmature superego or, the Ayah’s lament