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Title:
The creative mystique : from red shoes frenzy to love and creativity
Author:
Kavaler-Adler, Susan.
ISBN:
9780415914123

9780415914130
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Publication Information:
New York : Routledge, 1996.
Physical Description:
xii, 339 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
1. Pathology and Health of Creativity: Compulsion and Mystique or Dialectic -- 2. "The Love-Creativity Dialectic": A Theory of Psychic Health -- 3. The Red Shoes Myth and the Story of Camille Claudel -- 4. The Story of Suzanne Farrell and George Ballanchine -- 5. Katherine Mansfield: A Theory of Creative Process Reparation and its Mode of Failure -- 6. The Genius and Sorrow of Virginia Woolf, Part I -- 7. The Genius and Sorrow of Virginia Woolf, Part II: Vision and Art -- 8. Diane Arbus and the Demon Lover -- 9. Some More Speculations on Anna O.: Demon Lover and Arrested Creativity -- 10. Anne Sexton's Treatment, Part I -- 11. Anne Sexton's Treatment, Part II, and Addendum on her Demon Lover Complex -- 12. The Case of Lois, Part I: Red Shoes Frenzy, Mystique, and Creative Compulsion -- 13. The Case of Lois, Part II: Healing and Movement Towards The Love-Creativity Dialectic -- 14. The Case of Ms. C.