On the Lyricism of the Mind

Dr Dana Amir is a clinical psychologist, supervising-analyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Society, poetess and literature researcher and a faculty member of Haifa University. She is the author of five poetry books and two psychoanalytic non-fiction books, and the winner of the Adler National Poetry Prize (1993); the Bahat Prize for Academic Original Book (2006); the Frances Tustin International Memorial Prize (2011); the Prime-Minister Prize for Hebrew Writers (2012); the IPA (International Psychoanalytic Association) Sacerdoti Prize (2013); the Nathan Alterman poetry price (2013) and the Distinguished Psychoanalytic Educators Award (IFPE).

• Prologue Chapter 1: Bion, Winnicott, and the Lyrical Dimension of the Potential SpaceChapter 2: The Emergent, the Continuous and the LyricalChapter 3: The Philosophical and Human Meaning of the Lyrical DimensionChapter 4: The Emergent Self and the Continuous Self in the Mirror of DevelopmentChapter 5: Asleep with all Five Senses Awake: Octavio Paz's "As One Listens to the Rain" as an Illustration of the Interrelations between the Emergent and the Continuous Principles of the self Chapter 6: The Influence of the Interaction between the Continuous Self and the Emergent Self on the Development of the Schizoid and the Borderline PersonalitiesChapter 7: Attacks on Linking as Attacks on the Formation of the Lyrical DimensionChapter 8: The Line that Divides Sleeping from Waking: The Malignant Interaction between the Emergent Principle and the Continuous Principle in My Michael by Amos Oz Chapter 9: Melancholia as Mourning over a Possible ObjectChapter 10: From the Earthly Jerusalem to the Heavenly City: The lyrical Dimension of Mourning in A.B. Yehoshua's novella A Woman in JerusalemChapter 11: On Lyricism, Knowing and Love