Recently added articles from PSYART:

A Post-Kleinian Model for Aesthetic Criticism

Jan 01, 2008; Williams, Meg Harris ... This paper presents a piece of writing by the Kleinian art critic Adrian Stokes as a model for aesthetic criticism in general. First the limits of psychoanalytic interpretation are considered, with regard to the definition of an 'art symbol' made by the philosopher of aesthetics Susanne Langer ....

At a Loss for Words: Writer's Block in Britten's Death in Venice

Jan 01, 2008; Johnson, Shersten ... Based on Thomas Mann's story about an aging novelist's fateful obsession with an adolescent boy, Benjamin Britten's opera Death in Venice artfully dramatizes Mann's story of repressed sexuality masked as creative inhibition. Aschenbach's introductory monologue, beginning "My mind beats on and no ...

The Dramatic Presentation of Inner Turmoil: Shakespeare and John Berryman's Dream Songs

Jan 01, 2008; Peters, Jay ... This paper examines John Berryman's Dream Songs from a psychoanalytic perspective. The paper formulates a means of discussing three factors that impinge on Henry's construction of himself: the heteroglossic nature of thought one's relationship to power and one's relationship to the metaphysical ....