Between Couch and Piano links well-established psychoanalytic ideas with historical and neurological theory to help us begin to understand from a psychoanalytic perspective some of the reasons behind music's ubiquity and power. Table of Contents: Foreword by Jonathan D. Kramer:A Musician Listens to a Psychoanalyst Listening to Music. Preface. Between Words and Music. On the Shores of Self: Beckett's Molloy (1973). Whence the Feelings from Art:Communication or Concordance? The Music of Time in Faulkner's Light In August (1980). Music as Temporal Prosthesis. In Pursuit of Slow Time: Modern Music and a Clinical Vignette (1987). The Birth of Music in the Context of Loss:Music and Affect Regulation. The Power of Implicit Motion:It Goes Straight Through. A Psychoanalyst Listens to a Musician Listening to Himself Composing. Bibliography. About the Author: Gilbert J. Rose is in private practice of psychiatry and psychoanalysis and is a member of the Muriel Gardiner Program in Psychoanalysis and Humanities at Yale. |