Czanne and the Post-Bionian Field: An Exploration and a Meditation by Robert Sne

Description: Czanne and the Post-Bionian Field by Robert Snell By inviting a conversation between them, this book offers a nuanced introduction both to Cézanne - the father of modern art - and perhaps the most vital body of theory in contemporary psychoanalysis: post-Bionian field theory, as it has been evolving in Italy in the hands of Antonino Ferro, Giuseppe Civitarese and others. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description By inviting a conversation between them, this book offers a nuanced introduction both to Cézanne—the father of modern art—and perhaps the most vital body of theory in contemporary psychoanalysis, post-Bionian field theory, as it has been evolving in Italy in the hands of Antonino Ferro, Giuseppe Civitarese, and others. Cézanne and Bion, each insisting on his own truths, spearheaded quite new directions in painting and in psychoanalysis. Both point us towards a crucial insight: far from being isolated, self-contained subjects, we fundamentally exist only within a larger interpersonal field. Cézannes painting can give us a direct experience of this. For the Italian field analysts, building on Bions work, the field is accessed through reverie, metaphor, and dream, which now come to occupy the heart of psychoanalysis. Here primitive proto-emotions that link us all might be transformed—as Cézanne transformed his sensations—into aesthetic form, into feelings-linked-to-thoughts that in turn enrich and expand the field. The book draws on the words of artists (Cézanne himself, Mann), philosophers (Merleau-Ponty, Bergson), art historians and theorists (Clark, Smith, Shaw), as well as psychoanalysts (Bion, Ferro, Civitarese, and others), and it is the first to focus on one particular—and seminal—painter as a way of exploring this aesthetic and field dimension in depth and detail. Aimed at psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, artists, art historians, and the general reader, it suggests how far art and contemporary psychoanalysis are mutually generative. Author Biography Robert Snell is the author of Théophile Gautier: A Romantic Critic of the Visual Arts (1982), Uncertainties, Mysteries, Doubts: Romanticism and the Analytic Attitude (2012), and Portraits of the Insane: Théodore Géricault and the Subject of Psychotherapy (2016). He is an analytic psychotherapist in private practice. Table of Contents 1. Cézannes journey: Notes on an exhibition. 2. The field idea. 3. The painter and the field: Conversations with Cézanne 4. The art of the iImpossible. References. Appendix. Review In Cézanne and the post-Bionian field: an exploration and a meditation, the author succeeds in conveying the idea of a living, "multiversal" field by bringing together elements pertinent to the field concept in painting, philosophy and literature, and by providing them with a space where they can breathe together. The fascination of the book lies in the way it constructs novel pathways and tools for exploring a temporal space in perpetual expansion. The structure of the field can be expressed in different languages, each bound by its own stockade that someone, like our author, has dared to break down, resulting not in chaos but in the suggestion of new concepts. Whilst reading Robert Snells work, I was struck over and over again by his extraordinary capacity to juxtapose Cezannes visual concepts with Bions oneiric models and field theory. I cannot overstate the value of this extraordinarily fecund meeting between art and psychoanalysis.- Antonino Ferro, President of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, training and supervising analyst in the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, the American Psychoanalytic Association, and the International Psychoanalytical AssociationThe reading of this book absorbed me. I really admired Robert Snells writing style and the skill of the composition - the transitions from one perspective to the other, so as to always keep the readers attention. The book shows a deep understanding of the Italian theory of the analytical field, and creates a perfect interplay of reflections and resonances between this theory, Cézanne and Merleau-Ponty. All three come out of it enriched, because each one is reflected in the other two (not to mention Bergson, Ogden and many others). It is a beautiful book.- Giuseppe Civitarese, Psychiatrist and training and supervising analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI), member of the of the American Psychoanalytic Association, editor of the Rivista di Psicoanalis and author of Sublime Subjects, Aesthetic Experience and Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis, Routledge, 2017 In Cézanne and the Post-Bionian field: An Exploration and a Meditation, the author succeeds in conveying the idea of a living, "multiversal" field by bringing together elements pertinent to the field concept in painting, philosophy and literature, and by providing them with a space where they can breathe together. The fascination of the book lies in the way it constructs novel pathways and tools for exploring a temporal space in perpetual expansion. The structure of the field can be expressed in different languages, each bound by its own stockade that someone, like our author, has dared to break down, resulting not in chaos but in the suggestion of new concepts. Whilst reading Robert Snells work, I was struck over and over again by his extraordinary capacity to juxtapose Cezannes visual concepts with Bions oneiric models and field theory. I cannot overstate the value of this extraordinarily fecund meeting between art and psychoanalysis.- Antonino Ferro, President of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, training and supervising analyst in the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, the American Psychoanalytic Association, and the International Psychoanalytical AssociationThe reading of this book absorbed me. I really admired Robert Snells writing style and the skill of the composition —the transitions from one perspective to the other, so as to always keep the readers attention. The book shows a deep understanding of the Italian theory of the analytical field, and creates a perfect interplay of reflections and resonances between this theory, Cézanne and Merleau-Ponty. All three come out of it enriched, because each one is reflected in the other two (not to mention Bergson, Ogden and many others). It is a beautiful book.- Giuseppe Civitarese, Psychiatrist and training and supervising analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, member of the of the American Psychoanalytic Association, editor of the Rivista di Psicoanalis and author of Sublime Subjects, Aesthetic Experience and Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis (2017) Review Quote In C Details ISBN0367645459 Author Robert Snell Language English ISBN-10 0367645459 ISBN-13 9780367645458 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2020-12-30 DEWEY 150.195 Pages 158 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Year 2020 UK Release Date 2020-12-30 Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2020-12-30 NZ Release Date 2020-12-30 Illustrations 1 Line drawings, black and white; 25 Halftones, color Subtitle An Exploration and a Meditation Alternative 9780367645472 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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