title: Silent cries, dancing tears: the metapsychology of art revisited/revised.
abstract: Against the backdrop of a broad survey of the literature on applied psychoanalysis, a number of concepts underpinning the metapsychology of art are revisited and revised: sublimation; interrelationships between primary and secondary processes; symbolization; "fantasy"; and "cathexis." Concepts embedded in dichotomous or drive/energic contexts are examined and reformulated in terms of a continuum of semiotic processes. Freudian dream structure is viewed as a biological/natural template for nonrepressive artistic forms of sublimation. The synthesis presented proposes a model of continuous rather than discontinuous processes, in a nonenergic, biosemiotic metatheoretical framework.
authors.affiliation: Private practice, New York.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Aragno
mesh_terms: D001154:Art; D004325:Dreams; D005201:Fantasy; D006801:Humans; D011572:Psychoanalysis; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory