Music and psyche

Includes CD in back pocket

Introduction - Paul Ashton. 1 The third in Mahler's Ninth - Melinda Haas. 2 The voice of the anima in popular singing - John Beebe. 3 The innate transformational properities of Beethoven's passion music - Helen Anderson. 4 An e-mail interview with Mario Jacoby - Paul W. Ashton. 5 The matrix of music and analysis - Patricia Skar. 6 Creative torment or tormented creativity: Robert Schumann and nineteenth-century German romanticism - Laurel Morris. 7 "I wrote what I heard"; late thoughts on The rite of spring - Kevin O'Connell. 8 Music, mind, and psyche - Paul W. Ashton. 9 In you more than you: The Lacanian real, music, and bearing witness - Lawrence A. Wetzler. 10 An e-mail interview with Michael Eigen - Stephen Bloch. 11 The music of unthinkable anxiety and nameless dread - Lawrence A. Wetzler. 12 "Night is a sound"; the music of the black sun - Stephen Bloch. 13 Can music save the world? - Melinda Haas. 14 Bonfire of the vanities: music, playback theatre, xenophobia, and trauma in a South African township - Chris Wildman. 15 Abandonment, wish, and hope in the blues - William Willeford. 16 Mercy: the unbearable in Eigen's writings and John Tavener's Prayer of the heart. 17 Song and the psyche: whispers of the mind - Noirin Ni Riain

'A wonderfully creative exploration of the interface between music and psyche as mediated through analytic understanding. The book covers a wealth of topics, from individual transformation, to new findings from neuroscience, to the healing powers of music's spiritual dimensions, marvelously enhanced by a CD and a complete discography of musical references. This book opens new vistas for Jungians and non-Jungians alike interested in the nature of music's impact and resonance in the psyche, and with psyche's self-expression through music.' --Hester McFarland Solomon

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