Psychoanalysis and Literature

Psychoanalysis offers many concepts that are extremely useful clinically but not always accessible in the original. Marilyn Charles is noted for her efforts to translate these dense psychoanalytic terms into language that is both accessible and clinically relevant. In Psychoanalysis, Literature, and [...]
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Psychoanalysis offers many concepts that are extremely useful clinically but not always accessible in the original. Marilyn Charles is noted for her efforts to translate these dense psychoanalytic terms into language that is both accessible and clinically relevant. In Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Life: The Stories We Live, she pairs case vignettes with examples from literature to highlight the essential human struggles that play out in the consulting room. This pairing de-pathologizes those struggles and offers a conceptual framework that can help the clinician facilitate these journeys of discovery. Describing first how literature affords an opportunity for vicarious engagement with struggles endemic to the human condition, she then focuses on trauma, dreams, cultural collisions, and then turns more explicitly to the developmental challenges of identity, relatedness, aging, and generativity.