The Creative Mystique: From Red Shoes Frenzy to Love and Creativity

by Kavaler-Adler,Susan

• ISBN13: 9780415914130
• ISBN10: 0415914132
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1996-08-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Through the life stories of women such as Camille Claudel, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Anne Sexton, Suzanne Farrell and others and through clinical case studies, Susan Kavaler-Adler offers penetrating insights into the nature of the creative process. Kavaler-Adler contrasts unsuccessful psychological treatments with object-relations therapy that is able to resolve the pathological narcissism of creative addiction and allow the emergence of healthy modes of self-expression.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Pathology and Health of Creativity: Compulsion and Mystique or Dialectic	p. 3
"The Love-Creativity Dialectic": A Theory of Psychic Health	p. 15
The Red Shoes Myth and the Story of Camille Claudel	p. 49
The Story of Suzanne Farrell and George Ballanchine	p. 79
Katherine Mansfield: A Theory of Creative Process Reparation and its Mode of Failure	p. 95
The Genius and Sorrow of Virginia Woolf, Part I	p. 117
The Genius and Sorrow of Virginia Woolf, Part II: Vision and Art	p. 141
Diane Arbus and the Demon Lover	p. 167
Some More Speculations on Anna O.: Demon Lover and Arrested Creativity	p. 173
Anne Sexton's Treatment, Part I	p. 183
Anne Sexton's Treatment, Part II, and Addendum on her Demon Lover Complex	p. 211
The Case of Lois, Part I: Red Shoes Frenzy, Mystique, and Creative Compulsion	p. 243
The Case of Lois, Part II: Healing and Movement Towards The Love-Creativity Dialectic	p. 269
The Case of Ms. C.	p. 293
Notes	p. 319
References	p. 325
Index	p. 331
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