The creative feminine and her discontents : psychotherapy, art, and destruction / Juliet Miller.

By:

Miller, Juliet, 1946-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Karnac Books, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 152 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781849406505
1849406502
1283070618
9781283070614

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Creative feminine and her discontents.DDC classification:

153.35 22

LOC classification:

BF411 .M55 2008eb

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Contents:

The search for a voice -- Using a voice -- The dilemma of motherhood -- The problem of infertility -- History, gender, and relating -- Patriarchy and hate in training institutes -- Power and vulnerability in the work of Louise Bourgeois -- Creative destruction in the work of Cornelia Parker.

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Summary: This book is an attempt to look at creativity from a female perspective. By looking at artistic endeavour, mothering and psychotherapeutic relationships, Juliet Miller considers how a patriarchal world distorts the channels through which women discover their own creative voices. She argues that the dynamics of female creativity are more multi- layered and conflicted for women for a variety of historical, cultural and archetypal reasons and suggests that an attack on the creative feminine has been exacerbated by the history and teaching of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Miller looks to the a.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-147) and index.

This book is an attempt to look at creativity from a female perspective. By looking at artistic endeavour, mothering and psychotherapeutic relationships, Juliet Miller considers how a patriarchal world distorts the channels through which women discover their own creative voices. She argues that the dynamics of female creativity are more multi- layered and conflicted for women for a variety of historical, cultural and archetypal reasons and suggests that an attack on the creative feminine has been exacerbated by the history and teaching of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Miller looks to the a.

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