Barbara Schapiro
Biographic Data
| ID | 1245997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Schapiro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Schapiro |
| SIGNATURE | SCHAPIRO B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Love's Shadow
This essay uses Stephen Mitchell's psychoanalytic relational theory to explore the unconscious dynamics of romance in Hardy's The Woodlanders , examine how aggressive, sexual, and idealizing fantasies determine as well as destabilize romantic love, and how passion is structured by the tension between subjective fantasy and external reality
The Death-Ego and the Vital Self
Psychoanalysis and the Problem of Evil
Since "evil" has become a term much in vogue in our current political climate, it seems ever more important to explore its psychic meanings and origins. What, first of all, do analysts and therapists mean by the word "evil"? The grandiosity of the term, as well as its traditionally religious connotations, perhaps make it unsuited to the therapeutic context. As Ruth Stein (2002) has commented, "'Evil' may sound too allegorical or too concrete, too…
Psychoanalysis and Romantic Idealization
In Memory of Stephen A. Mitchell Perhaps the single most pervasive theme of Thomas Hardy's fiction, as J. Hillis Miller (1970) has pointed out, is that of "fascination--the love of a human being who radiates a divine aura" (114). In many of the novels, characters are driven by a romantic infatuation with an idealized other. Eustacia Vye in The Return of the Native (1878), for instance, is described as "idealizing Wildeve for want of a better obje…
Woody Allen's Search for Self
The Romantic Mother
The Romantic Mother
Woody Allen's Search for Self
Psychoanalysis and Romantic Idealization
In Memory of Stephen A. Mitchell Perhaps the single most pervasive theme of Thomas Hardy's fiction, as J. Hillis Miller (1970) has pointed out, is that of "fascination--the love of a human being who radiates a divine aura" (114). In many of the novels, characters are driven by a romantic infatuation with an idealized other. Eustacia Vye in The Return of the Native (1878), for instance, is described as "idealizing Wildeve for want of a better obje…
Psychoanalysis and the Problem of Evil
Since "evil" has become a term much in vogue in our current political climate, it seems ever more important to explore its psychic meanings and origins. What, first of all, do analysts and therapists mean by the word "evil"? The grandiosity of the term, as well as its traditionally religious connotations, perhaps make it unsuited to the therapeutic context. As Ruth Stein (2002) has commented, "'Evil' may sound too allegorical or too concrete, too…
The Death-Ego and the Vital Self
Love's Shadow
This essay uses Stephen Mitchell's psychoanalytic relational theory to explore the unconscious dynamics of romance in Hardy's The Woodlanders , examine how aggressive, sexual, and idealizing fantasies determine as well as destabilize romantic love, and how passion is structured by the tension between subjective fantasy and external reality
Psychoanalysis (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics (3 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (3 works) · Romance (3 works) · American and British Literature Analysis (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Id, ego and super-ego (2 works)