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- Title
Dante's Comedy: precursors of psychoanalytic technique and psyche.
- Authors
Szajnberg, Nathan Moses
- Abstract
This paper uses a literary approach to explore what common ground exists in both psychoanalytic technique and views of the psyche, of 'person'. While Western literature has developed various views of psyche and person over centuries, there have been crystallizing, seminal portraits, for instance Shakespeare's perspective on what is human, some of which have endured to the present. By using Dante's Commedia, particularly the Inferno, a 14th century poem that both integrates and revises previous models of psyche and personhood, we can examine what features of psyche, and 'techniques' in soul-healing psychoanalysts have inherited culturally. Discovering basic features of technique and model of psyche we share as psychoanalysts permits us to explore why we have differences in variations on technique and models of inner life.
- Publication
The International journal of psycho-analysis, 2010, Vol 91, Issue 1, p183
- ISSN
0020-7578
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1745-8315.2009.00217.x