Psychoanalytic Reflections on Writing Cinema and the Arts

<p>Why are we so fascinated by beauty? is a question many of us have asked ourselves as have many who came before us. This book investigates the moment of ecstatic solitude in which everyone can experience emotions through films works of art or natural phenomenon when even if for a magic instant we feel alive and masters of our own Self.</p><p>Expanding from the author’s personal experience this book is a series of applied psychoanalytic essays on film literature and aesthetic pleasure. It explores the complexity of loss and mourning destructivity perversion and revenge as well as an exploration of what can facilitate transformation and how to lead a blocked healing process back to motion.</p><p>This fascinating and insightful book will be of interest to psychoanalysts psychologists teachers and students and all those with an interest in psychoanalysis and the arts.</p>