Volume 17 - Number 4 - March 2011
Pages: 275 - 371
Call for Papers
Call for Papers
Creative Lives: Psychobiographical Approaches
The December 2011 Special Issue
Psychological Insights on Lives of Creativity (broadly defined), including:
- Childhood origins of artistic creativity; interactions with mother, father, siblings, and caretakers
- Genetic versus environmental aspects of artistic creativity
- Emotional and psychological consequences of parental dysfunction or loss
- Self-discovery through art
- Creativity as an act of individuality and a resistance to conformity
- Art as sublimation
- Creative illnesses of artists
- Psychological issues of specific artists through their work
- Gender and identity issues for artists
- Case studies of artists’ lives and works, for example:
- playwrights Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, or Henrik Ibsen
- painters and sculptors Judy Chicago, Lucian Freud, or Georgia O’Keefe
- Autobiography and the artist
- When and why in Western history the inner life of an artist came to be seen as the core of creativity
- Artists’ role and status in American society today compared historically
- Artists and their work: effect (cause) or reflection (mirror) of changes in society’s values?
- Artists in different historical eras and their work as expression of the psychohistory of their times
- How societal catastrophes—war, economic depression, political revolution, epidemic, natural disaster—affect artists’ creativity and creative output, and the market for art
- Balancing older Freudian concepts regarding creativity as pathological with a more positive approach
- Insights on creative lives from the theories of Freud, Adler, Jung, Sullivan, Winnicott, and others
- Do artists make different analysands and, if so, how does this impact the countertransference of the analyst?
- Does psychotherapy add to or interfere with artistic creativity? If so, how and why?
- The new frontier of creativity: where psychoanalytic theory joins neuroscience
- Reviews/review essays on relevant books, exhibits, films, plays, or shows
Articles are welcome.
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The Psychology of American Exceptionalism
June 2011 Special Issue
Psychological/Psychodynamic Insights on Aspects of American Exceptionalism reflected in:
Psychological/Psychodynamic Insights on Aspects of American Exceptionalism reflected in:
- A contemporary or historical case study/studies
- A psychobiographical exploration of the roots of this identification: Jackson, Jefferson, Lincoln, FDR, and so forth
- Justifications for American imperialistic behaviors
- Justifications for international capitalism and special interests
- Religious aspects now and throughout the years: America as “the shining city on the hill”
- Its patterns and the emotional climate of invocation
- Uses in war time and the preparation for war
- Politicians, as well as talk show and television commentators
- Psychogeograhical projections onto countries and states
- Films, flags, songs, and other artifacts
- Comparisons with the exceptionalisms of other nations
- Inspiration for humanitarian efforts such as disaster and food relief, foreign non-military aid, the Peace Corps, and so forth
- Scientific and technological innovation and leadership
- The creation of the League of Nations, major contributions to the creation of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), and so forth
- Setting an example for human kind, in Lincoln’s words, “America as the last best hope for mankind” (as in parts of the Arabic world in 2011)
- Book and movie review essays
Articles are welcome.
Call for Symposium Responses
On the Foreign Policy of American Exceptionalism and its Contemporary Manifestations
by Frank Summers and Paul Elovitz
Requests for the papers and the subsequent commentary of 500-1000 words are welcome and should be mailed to Paul H. Elovitz.
by Frank Summers and Paul Elovitz
Requests for the papers and the subsequent commentary of 500-1000 words are welcome and should be mailed to Paul H. Elovitz.
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