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Grundy, Dominick

doi:10.1080/00107530.1993.10746832

Contemporary Psychoanalysis

1993

DOI: 10.1080/00107530.1993.10746832

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Dominick Grundy¹

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“…Writing problems may occur if this process is unconsciously perceived as dangerous to one's objects (Tuch, 1995). The threat of being in an objectless state may induce anxiety (Oremland, 1997), as the creative process may undermine object relations, producing conflict between dependency and the urge to create (Grundy, 1993). Grundy regards fear of the audience as fear of moving away from the dyad and being alone, whereas Niederland (1976) notes that in creativity, one's own ideas replace object relations.…”

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How writers write: Exploring the unconscious fantasies of writers.

Michael

2016

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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This study is an examination of unconscious fantasies related to writers as inferred through the analysis of in-depth interviews with a sample of productive fiction writers. The intention was to increase understanding of the psychodynamics associated with productivity among writers. Eleven published fiction writers were recruited primarily through a snowball sample, and consisted of men and women between their mid-30s and 60s. Data were collected through a 1-1.5-hr semistructured, tape-recorded interview with each participant. Participants were very forthcoming, resulting in rich data that lent itself to examination of symbolic meanings. Data were analyzed along 4 dimensions based on the literature and an initial examination of several interviews. There were 4 related findings. First, relationship to the work, which concerns investment of the work with fantasized powers of healing and self-sustenance, and experiencing the work as a created object. Second, relationship to readers involves the selection of readers, often a narcissistic twin, to help with completion of the work and separation from it. Third, the unique process, or method, developed by writers to help them write represents an external solution to internal challenges, such as stimulation management. Fourth, episodes of writing inhibition emerged primarily as a result of self-attack. Writers experienced both the desire to save and destroy their manuscripts, but usually acted to preserve them.

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How writers write: Exploring the unconscious fantasies of writers.

Michael

2016

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Look Who’s Talking! The Ongoing Problem of the Female Voice

Zuckerman¹

2014

Psychoanalytic Perspectives

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What Is a Writing Group? Dilemmas of the Leader

Grundy

2007

International Journal of Group Psychotherapy

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A writing group can serve to reinforce literary and therapeutic goals. The model outlined here assumes a leader with literary and clinical training, including expertise in group dynamics. The group format is adapted to support exploration of the writer's main problem, the absence of the reader at the moment of writing. The group modifies the writer's "mythical" reader through member interactions with writer and writing. Giving and receiving feedback are central to the group process. The leader's dilemma in a bifocal form like this is to know when and how far to interpret group members' psychological issues. The best rule is to interpret "toward" the group (i.e., to bring up material that can be safely and readily processed there), but to be cautious about interpretation of patterns of early character formation.

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How writers write: Exploring the unconscious fantasies of writers.

How writers write: Exploring the unconscious fantasies of writers.

Look Who’s Talking! The Ongoing Problem of the Female Voice

What Is a Writing Group? Dilemmas of the Leader

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