The Power of Form: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Aesthetic Form
New York: International Universities Press, 1980. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, bw frontispiece illustration, xviii, 234 pp, bw diagrams. VG-/VG- (light shelfwear to boards and block, pencil markings throughout text and on ffep. Dust jacket has general shelfwear). Item #179286
Contents include: Prelude -- Part One: The Self and the Need for Form. 1. Reality flow. 2. Self as form. 3. The structure of analysis and the reality of the self. 4. Irredentism and the creative impulse. 5. On the shores of the self: Samuel Beckett's Molloy. 6. Recapitulation and preview. -- Part Two: The Structure of Aesthetic Form and Experience. 7. The body and creative imagination. 8. The locus of imagination. 9. The dynamic structure of aesthetic form. 10. The plasticity of time. 11. The orchestration of time in William Faulkner's Light in August. 12. On aesthetic experience -- Coda -- Reprise. Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-225) and index.
OCLC: 5990571
Price: $35.00