Prescribing Creativity - The Meta-Diaries of Marion Milner

Marion Milner, The Angry Parrot. All images from Marion Milner’s On Not Being Able to Paint (Routledge, 2010), reproduced by permission of Taylor and Francis Group."Before the problem of the creative artist," Freud famously declared in an essay on Russian literature, "analysis must, alas, lay down its arms." Our creative potential—as it is expressed in the most ordinary dream or jokes, or in the extraordinary compositions of great artists—has always been a vital theme in psychoanalysis, but i...

On Peter Pan

Scene from Mabou Mines Peter and Wendy with Karen Kandel. Photograph taken by Richard Termine.I remember reading Peter Pan as a kid, a version based on the 1953 Disney movie—based on J. M. Barrie’s story. It turned me on. I’m six or seven, and I’m flipping through the pages, and there’s a picture of Peter with his arms crossed and his back to Wendy. He’s angry with her for some reason, and it turned me on. The words, the image, the anger? All of it, some kind of thrill-ball a kid has no words...

Artbreak - an incomplete scheme of liaisons, alliances, marriages and affairs between twentieth century artists

Lucian Freud - and other LRB clips

Persistence of Memory - The

The Persistence of MemoryOrganism, Myth, TextPhilip KuberskiUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESSBerkeley · Los Angeles · Oxford© 1992 The Regents of the University of Californiafor ClaudettePreferred Citation: Kuberski, Philip. The Persistence of Memory: Organism, Myth, Text. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft3v19n97j/for ClaudetteIntroduction― 1 ―I began writing this book without knowing it. After a summer in Europe I came back to California and ...

Symbolism in the Dream - Freud 1920

X. Symbolism in the Dream. Sigmund Freud. 1920. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis Nonfiction > Sigmund Freud > A General Introduction to PsychoanalysisCONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD Sigmund Freud (1856–1939). A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis. 1920.Part Two: The DreamX. Symbolism in the Dream WE have discovered that the distortion of dreams, a disturbing element in our work of understanding them, is the result of a censorious activity which is d...