Compulsion to Create : Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers
by Kavaler-Adler, SusanFormat: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2000-05-01
Publisher(s): Other Press Professional
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Summary
"A magnificent book that analyzes prominent female writers (Plath, Nin, The Brontes, Dickinson, and Sitwell) from a psychoanalytic self/object relations point of view . . . a must read for all."
Author Biography
Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler is the Founder and Executive Director of the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Compulsion versus Reparation | p. 1 |
| From Mother to Father | p. 24 |
| Mourning and Creative-Process Reparation | p. 40 |
| Creative Women and the Internal Father | p. 59 |
| The Demon Lover Theme as Literary Myth and Psychodynamic Complex | p. 76 |
| Portraits of Two Kinds of Creative Women | p. 88 |
| Charlotte Bronte: Biography and Jane Eyre | p. 105 |
| Villette | p. 121 |
| Emily Bronte I: The Messenger of Hope and the Demon in the Nightwind | p. 154 |
| Emily Bronte II: Wuthering Heights and the Demon Lover | p. 168 |
| Emily Dickinson: Muse and Demon | p. 192 |
| Emily Dickinson's Breakdown: Renunciation and Reparation | p. 221 |
| Edith Sitwell I: The Demon Lover, Poetry, and Writer's Block | p. 249 |
| Edith Sitwell II: The Aging Narcissist | p. 269 |
| The Turn to Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy | p. 299 |
| Notes | p. 327 |
| References | p. 339 |
| Index | p. 347 |
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