The Art of Personality in Literature and Psychoanalysis

by Meg Harris Williams

The Art of Personality

is a diverse selection of talks and papers on psychoanalysis and literature given by the author over the past ten years. They elaborate on the goal expressed by Milton as 'becoming a true poem': that is, seeing parallels between the gradual construction of the personality and the construction of a work of art, following an internal evolution on the lines of Bion's description of an 'endoskeletonous personality'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782206191
• ISBN13: 9781782206194
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"