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      Illuminating Childhood: Portraits in Fiction, Film, and Drama

      Ellen Handler Spitz

      While literature and the arts are rarely considered primary sources for knowledge about human motivation and behaviour, people read novels, attend movies, watch television, and go to the theatre not…

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      Illuminating Childhood: Portraits in Fiction, Film and Drama

      Ellen Handler Spitz

      While literature and the arts are rarely considered primary sources for knowledge about human motivation and behaviour, people read novels, attend movies, watch television, and go to the theatre not…

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      The Brightening Glance: Imagination and Childhood

      Ellen Handler Spitz

      In this original, richly illuminating study of the aesthetic development of children in their primary learning years, Spitz returns readers to the vibrant experience of childhood to explain how the…

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      Art and Psyche: A Study in Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics

      Ellen Handler Spitz

      In this provocative, closely argued book, Ellen Handler Spitz explores three principal psychoanalytic approaches to art. The first considers the relations between an artist’s life and work; the second focuses…

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      Inside Picture Books

      Ellen Handler Spitz

      Discusses well-known picture books and how they transmit psychological wisdom, convey moral lessons, shape tastes, and build a special bond between the child and the adult reader.

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      Image and Insight: Essays in Psychoanalysis and the Arts

      Ellen Handler Spitz

      Drawing on psychoanalytic discourse, the author of this work probes the use of words and images in contemporary culture. She draws upon a number of artistic movements and exhibitions to…

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      Freud and Forbidden Knowledge

      Peter L. Rudnytsky,Ellen Handler Spitz

      Following Freud’s lead, Rudnytsky and Spitz approach works of art as constituting psychoanalytical, or forbidden , knowledge. This collection of essays pursues the theme of forbidden knowledge in canonical works…

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      Freud and Forbidden Knowledge

      Peter L. Rudnytsky,Ellen Handler Spitz

      Following Freud’s lead, Rudnytsky and Spitz approach works of art as constituting psychoanalytical, or forbidden , knowledge. This collection of essays pursues the theme of forbidden knowledge in canonical works…

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      Bertolucci’s Last Emperor: Multiple Takes

      Ellen Handler Spitz

      In this anthology, filmmakers, psychoanalysts, film scholars and cultural historians use a psychoanalytic approach to examine Bernardo Bertolucci’s film The Last Emperor (1988). The book is divided into four parts…

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