The Anne Sexton complex
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19430709 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ilene Serlin (0000-0003-1768-873X, Saybrook University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 325-340 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Humanistic Psychologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0887-3267 • E-ISSN: 1547-3333 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08873267.1993.9976926 |
| OpenAlex | W2053459687 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
From Sylvia Plath to Virginia Woolf and Anne Sexton, artists have identified with the downward pull of the creative unconscious toward death. Death appears in images of a sexual, mystical, or ecstatic union with the ghostly lover or mother. This paper explores an alternative creative model for women which does not lead to death, by documenting the case history of a woman artist who attempted suicide, but who lived to tell her story. The case history is written as a narrative both in the words of the author and in the words of the client
Art · Literature · Mysticism · Narrative · Psychoanalysis · Unconscious mind · Cinema and Media Studies · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Psychology · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |