Universal fantasy in latency: Separation, attachment and sexuality in Julio Cortázar’s <i>Bestiary</i>

Shustorovich, Ellen; Weinstein, Lissa

doi:10.1111/j.1745-8315.2010.00346.x

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“…As a consequence of the primacy given to the commentator's personal experience, it is paramount to keep in mind the diversity of possible readings of any example of culture (Cañizares 2010;Schafer 2010;Shustorovich and Weinstein 2010;Tarantelli 2010). The importance ascribed to the personal reaction of the viewer/reader runs parallel to the degree to which countertransference is taken into account in psychoanalytic clinical practice.…”

Section: The Character As a Patientmentioning

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Psychoanalysis and The Arts: the Slippery Ground of Applied Analysis

Abella

2016

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

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The ways in which today's psychoanalysts approach art closely follow the avenues opened by Freud a hundred years ago. Drawing mainly on Freud's studies on Jensen's Gradiva (1907) and on Leonardo da Vinci (1910a), the author examines the main paradigms he used in discussing artistic activity, including his doubts and hesitations. Present-day approaches to art are then examined via a discussion of the advantages and pitfalls of psychobiography, of the case study, and of textual approaches. The author makes a case for the type of interdisciplinary dialogue in which the goal is to establish a cross-fertilization between psychoanalysis and other fields of knowledge while striving to avoid hypersaturation of a work of art in order to foster expansion of the mind.

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Section: The Character As a Patientmentioning

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Psychoanalysis and The Arts: the Slippery Ground of Applied Analysis

Abella

2016

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

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Coherence, Competence, and Confusion in Narratives of Middle Childhood

Weinstein

Shustorovich²

2011

The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child

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Middle childhood is a pivotal time in character development during which enduring internal structures are formed. Fiction can offer insights into the cognitive and affective shifts of this developmental phase and how they are transformed in adulthood. While the success of beloved books for latency age children lies in the solutions they offer to the conflict between the pull toward independence and the pull back to the safety of childhood, the enduring stories for adults about children in their middle years can be seen as works of mourning for the relationship with the parents and the childhood self, but more importantly as attempts to transform their experience of middle childhood through the retrospective creation of a coherence that was initially absent. Thematic and structural elements distinguish two groups of stories for adults: the first appears to solve the conflicts of this period by importing adult knowledge and perspective into the narrative of childhood; the second describes the unconscious disorganizing aspects of this period, thereby offering readers a chance to reorganize their own memories, to make a coherent whole out of the fragmented, the confusing, and the unresolved.

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A Hundred Years of Latency

Knight¹

2014

J Am Psychoanal Assoc

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A focus on the latency phase is used to illustrate how theory and developmental research have influenced our psychoanalytic views of development over the past hundred years. Beginning with Freud's psychosexual theory and his conception of latency, an historical overview of the major psychoanalytic contributions bearing on this developmental period over the past century is presented. Recent longitudinal research in latency supports a nonlinear dynamic systems approach to development. This approach obliges us to reconsider our linear theories and how we think about and work with our patients.

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Universal fantasy in latency: Separation, attachment and sexuality in Julio Cortázar’s Bestiary

Cited by 3 publications

References 23 publications

Psychoanalysis and The Arts: the Slippery Ground of Applied Analysis

Psychoanalysis and The Arts: the Slippery Ground of Applied Analysis

Coherence, Competence, and Confusion in Narratives of Middle Childhood

A Hundred Years of Latency

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