DESIRE AND AVOIDANCE IN ART

Desire and Avoidance in Art argues that while early developmental traumas can produce life-long creative endeavors with striking aes thetic results, they may also, for the male artist, result in destructive relations with women. Brink introduces the scheme of perso nality formation-as found in the work on infant and child development of John Bowlby, Mary Ainsworth, Mary Main, Patricia Crittenden , Allen N. Schore, and others-to explore a new venture in psychobiography. He effectively uses the concept of anxious attachment to describe ...[Llegir més]