Psychotherapy, the Alchemical Imagination and Metaphors of Substance / / Alan Bleakley.
Alchemy is popularly viewed as a secret way of turning worthless base metal into gold, and then a precursor to modern chemistry. This is often taken as a metaphor for psychological development. This book describes an innovative "third way" for both the education and exercise of an alchemic...
Saved in:
Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1 |
---|---|
VerfasserIn: | |
Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023] ©2023 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Medical & Health Humanities : Aesthetics, Analyses, Approaches ,
1 |
Online Access: | |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XIV, 248 p.) |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
id |
9783111157368 |
---|---|
ctrlnum |
(DE-B1597)644718 (OCoLC)1385452595 |
collection |
bib_alma |
record_format |
marc |
spelling |
Bleakley, Alan, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Psychotherapy, the Alchemical Imagination and Metaphors of Substance / Alan Bleakley. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2023] ©2023 1 online resource (XIV, 248 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Medical & Health Humanities : Aesthetics, Analyses, Approaches , 2940-9632 ; 1 Frontmatter -- Series Editors’ Preface -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Thinking “Slantwise”: Context for the Book and Definitions of Terms -- Chapter 2: The Alchemical Imagination -- Chapter 3: Metaphors of substance -- Chapter 4: Life distilled -- Chapter 5: Fire -- Chapter 6: Red Sulphur -- Chapter 7: Green Sulphur -- Chapter 8: Salt -- Chapter 9: Transference Part I -- Chapter 10: Transference Part II -- Chapter 11: Operations -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Alchemy is popularly viewed as a secret way of turning worthless base metal into gold, and then a precursor to modern chemistry. This is often taken as a metaphor for psychological development. This book describes an innovative "third way" for both the education and exercise of an alchemical imagination that embraces both material matters and psychological insight: alchemy as lyrical poetics, or the intensive production of embodied metaphor. Alchemy here is viewed as an immanent set of metaphor-driven "best practices" for indwelling complex and contradictory earthly matters in a sensual, artistic and humane manner. Or, again, it describes best psychotherapeutic practice. Alchemy is read not as a medium for "personal growth", but optimal co-existence with the natural world. It is an eco-logical rather than ego-logical project with deep aesthetic concerns (education of the senses in close noticing) and political intentions (a democracy of worldly things). The book echoes post-Freudian developments in psychoanalysis that avoid the mysticism of symbol systems to work rather with everyday signs and linguistic registers such as embodied metaphors, keeping the focus on known and sensed phenomena rather than abstractions. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024) LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General. bisacsh alchemy. language. metaphor. psychotherapy. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1 9783111175782 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English 9783111319292 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 9783111318912 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary Studies 2023 English 9783111319186 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary Studies 2023 9783111318264 EPUB 9783111159904 print 9783111154770 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111157368 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783111157368 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783111157368/original |
language |
English |
format |
eBook |
author |
Bleakley, Alan, Bleakley, Alan, |
spellingShingle |
Bleakley, Alan, Bleakley, Alan, Psychotherapy, the Alchemical Imagination and Metaphors of Substance / Medical & Health Humanities : Aesthetics, Analyses, Approaches , Frontmatter -- Series Editors’ Preface -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Thinking “Slantwise”: Context for the Book and Definitions of Terms -- Chapter 2: The Alchemical Imagination -- Chapter 3: Metaphors of substance -- Chapter 4: Life distilled -- Chapter 5: Fire -- Chapter 6: Red Sulphur -- Chapter 7: Green Sulphur -- Chapter 8: Salt -- Chapter 9: Transference Part I -- Chapter 10: Transference Part II -- Chapter 11: Operations -- References -- Index |
author_facet |
Bleakley, Alan, Bleakley, Alan, |
author_variant |
a b ab a b ab |
author_role |
VerfasserIn VerfasserIn |
author_sort |
Bleakley, Alan, |
title |
Psychotherapy, the Alchemical Imagination and Metaphors of Substance / |
title_full |
Psychotherapy, the Alchemical Imagination and Metaphors of Substance / Alan Bleakley. |
title_fullStr |
Psychotherapy, the Alchemical Imagination and Metaphors of Substance / Alan Bleakley. |
title_full_unstemmed |
Psychotherapy, the Alchemical Imagination and Metaphors of Substance / Alan Bleakley. |
title_auth |
Psychotherapy, the Alchemical Imagination and Metaphors of Substance / |
title_alt |
Frontmatter -- Series Editors’ Preface -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Thinking “Slantwise”: Context for the Book and Definitions of Terms -- Chapter 2: The Alchemical Imagination -- Chapter 3: Metaphors of substance -- Chapter 4: Life distilled -- Chapter 5: Fire -- Chapter 6: Red Sulphur -- Chapter 7: Green Sulphur -- Chapter 8: Salt -- Chapter 9: Transference Part I -- Chapter 10: Transference Part II -- Chapter 11: Operations -- References -- Index |
title_new |
Psychotherapy, the Alchemical Imagination and Metaphors of Substance / |
title_sort |
psychotherapy, the alchemical imagination and metaphors of substance / |
series |
Medical & Health Humanities : Aesthetics, Analyses, Approaches , |
series2 |
Medical & Health Humanities : Aesthetics, Analyses, Approaches , |
publisher |
De Gruyter, |
publishDate |
2023 |
physical |
1 online resource (XIV, 248 p.) Issued also in print. |
contents |
Frontmatter -- Series Editors’ Preface -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Thinking “Slantwise”: Context for the Book and Definitions of Terms -- Chapter 2: The Alchemical Imagination -- Chapter 3: Metaphors of substance -- Chapter 4: Life distilled -- Chapter 5: Fire -- Chapter 6: Red Sulphur -- Chapter 7: Green Sulphur -- Chapter 8: Salt -- Chapter 9: Transference Part I -- Chapter 10: Transference Part II -- Chapter 11: Operations -- References -- Index |
isbn |
9783111157368 9783111175782 9783111319292 9783111318912 9783111319186 9783111318264 9783111159904 9783111154770 |
issn |
2940-9632 ; |
url |
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111157368 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783111157368 https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783111157368/original |
illustrated |
Not Illustrated |
dewey-hundreds |
600 - Technology |
dewey-tens |
610 - Medicine & health |
dewey-ones |
616 - Diseases |
dewey-full |
616.89 |
dewey-sort |
3616.89 |
dewey-raw |
616.89 |
dewey-search |
616.89 |
doi_str_mv |
10.1515/9783111157368 |
oclc_num |
1385452595 |
work_keys_str_mv |
AT bleakleyalan psychotherapythealchemicalimaginationandmetaphorsofsubstance |
status_str |
n |
ids_txt_mv |
(DE-B1597)644718 (OCoLC)1385452595 |
carrierType_str_mv |
cr |
hierarchy_parent_title |
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary Studies 2023 English Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary Studies 2023 |
is_hierarchy_title |
Psychotherapy, the Alchemical Imagination and Metaphors of Substance / |
container_title |
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1 |
_version_ |
1806144937369010176 |
fullrecord |
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>04821nam a2200745 4500 </leader><controlfield tag="001">9783111157368</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">DE-B1597</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">20240625070013.0</controlfield><controlfield tag="006">m|||||o||d||||||||</controlfield><controlfield tag="007">cr || ||||||||</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">240625t20232023gw fo d z eng d</controlfield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9783111157368</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="024" ind1="7" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">10.1515/9783111157368</subfield><subfield code="2">doi</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(DE-B1597)644718</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)1385452595</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-B1597</subfield><subfield code="b">eng</subfield><subfield code="c">DE-B1597</subfield><subfield code="e">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="041" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">eng</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="044" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">gw</subfield><subfield code="c">DE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="072" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">LIT004130</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="082" ind1="0" ind2="4"><subfield code="a">616.89</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Bleakley, Alan, </subfield><subfield code="e">author.</subfield><subfield code="4">aut</subfield><subfield code="4">http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Psychotherapy, the Alchemical Imagination and Metaphors of Substance /</subfield><subfield code="c">Alan Bleakley.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">Berlin ;</subfield><subfield code="a">Boston : </subfield><subfield code="b">De Gruyter, </subfield><subfield code="c">[2023]</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="c">©2023</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">1 online resource (XIV, 248 p.)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">text</subfield><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">computer</subfield><subfield code="b">c</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">online resource</subfield><subfield code="b">cr</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="347" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">text file</subfield><subfield code="b">PDF</subfield><subfield code="2">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="490" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Medical & Health Humanities : Aesthetics, Analyses, Approaches ,</subfield><subfield code="x">2940-9632 ;</subfield><subfield code="v">1</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="0" ind2="0"><subfield code="t">Frontmatter -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Series Editors’ Preface -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Table of Contents -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Acknowledgements -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 1: Thinking “Slantwise”: Context for the Book and Definitions of Terms -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 2: The Alchemical Imagination -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 3: Metaphors of substance -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 4: Life distilled -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 5: Fire -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 6: Red Sulphur -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 7: Green Sulphur -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 8: Salt -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 9: Transference Part I -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 10: Transference Part II -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 11: Operations -- </subfield><subfield code="t">References -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Index</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="506" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">restricted access</subfield><subfield code="u">http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec</subfield><subfield code="f">online access with authorization</subfield><subfield code="2">star</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="520" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Alchemy is popularly viewed as a secret way of turning worthless base metal into gold, and then a precursor to modern chemistry. This is often taken as a metaphor for psychological development. This book describes an innovative "third way" for both the education and exercise of an alchemical imagination that embraces both material matters and psychological insight: alchemy as lyrical poetics, or the intensive production of embodied metaphor. Alchemy here is viewed as an immanent set of metaphor-driven "best practices" for indwelling complex and contradictory earthly matters in a sensual, artistic and humane manner. Or, again, it describes best psychotherapeutic practice. Alchemy is read not as a medium for "personal growth", but optimal co-existence with the natural world. It is an eco-logical rather than ego-logical project with deep aesthetic concerns (education of the senses in close noticing) and political intentions (a democracy of worldly things). The book echoes post-Freudian developments in psychoanalysis that avoid the mysticism of symbol systems to work rather with everyday signs and linguistic registers such as embodied metaphors, keeping the focus on known and sensed phenomena rather than abstractions.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="530" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Issued also in print.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="538" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="546" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">In English.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="588" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General.</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">alchemy.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">language.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">metaphor.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">psychotherapy.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1</subfield><subfield code="z">9783111175782</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English</subfield><subfield code="z">9783111319292</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023</subfield><subfield code="z">9783111318912</subfield><subfield code="o">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">EBOOK PACKAGE Literary Studies 2023 English</subfield><subfield code="z">9783111319186</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">EBOOK PACKAGE Literary Studies 2023</subfield><subfield code="z">9783111318264</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="776" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="c">EPUB</subfield><subfield code="z">9783111159904</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="776" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="c">print</subfield><subfield code="z">9783111154770</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="u">https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111157368</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783111157368</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="2"><subfield code="3">Cover</subfield><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783111157368/original</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">978-3-11-117578-2 DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1</subfield><subfield code="b">2023</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">978-3-11-131826-4 EBOOK PACKAGE Literary Studies 2023</subfield><subfield code="b">2023</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">978-3-11-131918-6 EBOOK PACKAGE Literary Studies 2023 English</subfield><subfield code="b">2023</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">978-3-11-131929-2 EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English</subfield><subfield code="b">2023</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_CL_LT</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_DGALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EBKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_ECL_LT</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EEBKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_ESSHALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_SSHALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">GBV-deGruyter-alles</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield><subfield code="b">2023</subfield></datafield></record></collection> |