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Melodies of the Mind : Connections Between Psychoanalysis and Music by Julie Jaffee Nagel is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Melodies of the Mind : Connections Between Psychoanalysis and Music about?
What can psychoanalysis learn from music? What can music learn from psychoanalysis? Can the analysis of music itself provide a primary source of psychological data? Drawing on Freud's concept of the oral road to the unconscious, Melodies of the Mind invites the reader to take a journey on an aural and oral road that explores both music and emotion, and their links to the unconscious. In this book, Julie Jaffee Nagel discusses how musical and psychoanalytic concepts inform each other, showing the ways that music itself provides an exceptional non-verbal pathway to emotion - a source of 'quasi' psychoanalytical clinical data. The interdisciplinary synthesis of music and psychoanalytic knowledge provides a schema for understanding the complexity of an individual's inner world as that world interacts with social 'reality'. There are three main areas explored: The Aural Road Moods and Melodies The Aural/Oral Road Less Travelled Melodies of the Mind is an exploration of the power of music to move us when words fall short. It suggests the value of using music and ideas of the mind to better understand and address psychological, social, and educational issues that are relevant in everyday
Who reads Melodies of the Mind : Connections Between Psychoanalysis and Music?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Julie Jaffee Nagel
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780415692786
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Music, History, Psychology