Writing and Society is a stunning exploration of the relationship between the growth in popular literacy and the development of new readerships and the authors addressing them. It is the first single volume to provide a year-by-year chronology of political events in relation to cultural production. This overview of debates in literary critical theory and historiography includes facsimile pages with commentary from the most influential books of the period. The author describes and analyses: * the development of literacy by status, gender and region in Britain * structures of patronage and censorship * the fundamental role of the publishing industry * the relation between elite literary and popular cultures * and the remarkable growth of female literacy and publication.
Table of Contents:
Mitchell, Foreword. Part I: Development of the Capacity for Self-Analysis: Exploration of our "Personal Equations."Demos, Developmental Foundations for the Capacity for Self-Analysis: Parallels in the Roles of Caregiver and Analyst. Bernardi, Does Our Self-Analysis Take Into Consideration Our Assumptions? Part II: Analytic Work and Self-Analysis.Margulies, Contemplating the Mirror of the Other: Empathy and Self-Analysis. McLaughlin, Work with Patients and the Experience of Self-Analysis. Smith, Engagements in Analysis and Their Use in Self-Analysis. Part III: Modes of Self-Analytic Activity.Wolf, Self-Analysis of a Taboo. Gedo, On Fastball Pitching, Astronomical Clocks, and Self-Cognition. Gardner, On Talking to Ourselves: Some Self-Analytical Reflections on Self-Analysis. Part IV: The Role of the Other in Self-Analysis.Eifermann, The Discovery of Real and Fantasized Audiences for Self-Analysis. Harris, Ragen, Mutual Supervision, Countertransference, and Self-Analysis. Poland, Self and Other in Self-Analysis. Part V: Self-Analysis, Writing, and Creativity.Sonnenberg, To Write or Not to Write: A Note on Self-Analysis and the Resistance to Self-Analysis. Anzieu, Beckett: Self-Analysis and Creativity. Lussier, Freud's Self-Analysis.
About the Author :
A graduate and faculty member of the Psychoanalytic Institute of New England, East, James W. Barron, Ph.D., has broad interests in psychoanalytic education. Past president of the Division of Psychoanalysis of the APA, the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, and the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education, Dr. Barron is editor of the Psychologist Psychoanalyst and coeditor of the volume Interface of Psychoanalysis and Psychology (1992). He maintains a private practice and is an Instructor in Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.
Review :
"This is one of the most valuable books on psychoanalysis to appear in many years. The contributors offer a fascinating overview both of the way that analysts go about analyzing themselves and the way that their psychology resonates with that of their patients."
- Theodore Jacobs, M.D., New York Psychoanalytic Institute
