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The Story of Original Loss: Grieving Existential Trauma in the Arts and the Art of Psychoanalysis

Author(s) : Malcolm Owen Slavin

Table of Contents

1. The Enigma of Cave Art
2. Original Loss and the Emergence of Existential Anxiety
3. Surviving Original Loss

Part 1: Envisioning Winnicott’s “Transitional Creativity” and “Object Use” in Evolutionary-Existential Terms
4. Surviving Original Loss

Part 2: Envisioning Loewald’s Dynamic Unconscious as an Evolved-Existential Structure
5. Original Loss in Everyday Life, Part I - A Developmental Story
6. Original Loss in Everyday Life, Part II - Existential Grieving in Development and Clinical Process
7. Original Loss and Original Sin
8. After the Fall: From Sin to Loss
9. Why Do We Need Art?
10. How Art Works
11. Traveling with Metaphor
12. Metaphor, Playing and Pretending
13. The Art of Losing
14. The Art of Losing and the Presence of Absence in Metaphor
15. Mourning Versus Melancholia in the Arts
16. From Melancholia to Mourning in The Arabian Nights
17. Loss Made Visible
18. The Music Knows
19. Epilogue: Home for a Hybrid, Divided Species