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This is a book of fascinating conversations between writers, mostly novelists, and psychoanalysts. Literature is one route into psychoanalysis (or one might say literature shows a similar interest in inner worlds as psychoanalysis does). Margot Waddell quotes Dryden speaking of poetry but it might as well be of psychoanalysis as 'that which moves the sleeping images of things towards the light'. The book moves images towards the light. It is full of insights made and in the process of being made. The discussants are often thinking on their feet, thinking sometimes of things that they had not thought before. It is a rich book. To give just one hint at the kind of thing being discussed: Philip Pullman talks about the passage from innocence to maturity, starting with the eviction from the garden of Eden, as a matter of losing grace and gaining wisdom. Loss permeates growth, and has to be faced. But there are gains too. He and his psychoanalyst interlocutor speak about eros or energy as opposed to deadliness or indifference. They discuss Pullman's ways of enriching his characters and making his story more dynamic by means of daemons a sort of cross between conscience and angels; and many other things. --Michael Brearley, President-Elect of the British Psychoanalytical Society
This is a book it is a privilege to read. We are invited through the dialogue between four authors and their four psychoanalytic interlocutors into the workshop of the writers minds and into their subsequent reflections on their own work. One, Brenda Maddox, is a brilliant biographer, and the three justly acclaimed novelists are Rose Tremain, Antonia Byatt and Philip Pullman. They are all seekers after psychic truth whether through fact or fiction. Like psychoanalysts they are concerned with whether something is truly believed, not simply whether what is believed is true. In these matters good intentions and generalisation is not enough; abstract discussions on creativity tend to be vapid; in both professions the devil is in the detail. In these dialogues the various writers methods and approach are opened to us at the level of the ideas in the mind and the ink on the page. They are immersed in their work and we become immersed in the discussion of it. Anyone interested in the psychology of creative writers or the creativity of psychological writing will find this book irresistible. --Ronald Britton, Past President of the British Psychoanalytical Society
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New paperback edition. 'On The Way Home' is a series of public dialogues intended to forge links between psychoanalysis and other disciplines, including the physical and the social sciences, history and literature. They are held at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and attract a wide audience. The book features Rose Tremain in conversation with Margot Waddell, A. S. Byatt in conversation with Ignes Sodre, Brenda Maddox in conversation with Helen Taylor Robinson, and Philip Pullman in conversation with Marie Bridge.
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This is a book of fascinating conversations between writers, mostly novelists, and psychoanalysts. Literature is one route into psychoanalysis (or one might say literature shows a similar interest in inner worlds as psychoanalysis does). Margot Waddell quotes Dryden speaking of poetry but it might as well be of psychoanalysis as 'that which moves the sleeping images of things towards the light'. The book moves images towards the light. It is full of insights made and in the process of being made. The discussants are often thinking on their feet, thinking sometimes of things that they had not thought before. It is a rich book. To give just one hint at the kind of thing being discussed: Philip Pullman talks about the passage from innocence to maturity, starting with the eviction from the garden of Eden, as a matter of losing grace and gaining wisdom. Loss permeates growth, and has to be faced. But there are gains too. He and his psychoanalyst interlocutor speak about eros or energy as opposed to deadliness or indifference. They discuss Pullman's ways of enriching his characters and making his story more dynamic by means of daemons a sort of cross between conscience and angels; and many other things. --Michael Brearley, President-Elect of the British Psychoanalytical Society
This is a book it is a privilege to read. We are invited through the dialogue between four authors and their four psychoanalytic interlocutors into the workshop of the writers minds and into their subsequent reflections on their own work. One, Brenda Maddox, is a brilliant biographer, and the three justly acclaimed novelists are Rose Tremain, Antonia Byatt and Philip Pullman. They are all seekers after psychic truth whether through fact or fiction. Like psychoanalysts they are concerned with whether something is truly believed, not simply whether what is believed is true. In these matters good intentions and generalisation is not enough; abstract discussions on creativity tend to be vapid; in both professions the devil is in the detail. In these dialogues the various writers methods and approach are opened to us at the level of the ideas in the mind and the ink on the page. They are immersed in their work and we become immersed in the discussion of it. Anyone interested in the psychology of creative writers or the creativity of psychological writing will find this book irresistible. --Ronald Britton, Past President of the British Psychoanalytical Society
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New paperback edition. 'On The Way Home' is a series of public dialogues intended to forge links between psychoanalysis and other disciplines, including the physical and the social sciences, history and literature. They are held at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and attract a wide audience. The book features Rose Tremain in conversation with Margot Waddell, A. S. Byatt in conversation with Ignes Sodre, Brenda Maddox in conversation with Helen Taylor Robinson, and Philip Pullman in conversation with Marie Bridge.
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