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Here I'm Alive

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Writing in collaboration, three psychoanalytic clinicians develop a fresh vision of the essential role of music in psychical life. Through an interdisciplinary exploration, Here I’m Alive shows how...
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Here I’m Alive explores the musical foundation of being human from a psychoanalytic perspective.

Writing in collaboration, three psychoanalytic clinicians develop a fresh vision of the essential role of music in psychical life. Through an interdisciplinary exploration, Here I’m Alive shows how music is fundamental to becoming human, establishing our embodied sense of membership and participation in a shared world through the fabric of culture. With one authorial voice, these pages resonate with the musical forms of living that make possible any individual style of conduct or shape of desire and without which we are forever lost in the noise.

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Price: $35.00
Pages: 328
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Publication Date: 28 March 2023
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780231209458
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis, MUSIC / Philosophy & Social Aspects, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology
Showing us that music is at the heart of human development, of sociability, of love and desire—at the heart of most of what matters to us—this book shows us what many of us have always somehow thought but have never been able to know with such clarity and vision. Not simply one of the most fascinating books written about psychoanalysis, Here I’m Alive is, more importantly, about just how musical our lives are and can be. It is a unique and remarkable book.
Adam Blum, Peter Goldberg, and Michael Levin are members of the Bay Area psychoanalytic community.

Preface: Liner Notes
Side A
1. The Body’s Way of Dreaming
2. The Rhythm of the Heat
3. Mind Waves
4. Learning to Live Together
5. The Living Frame
Side B
6. Re-membering, Re-beating, and Worlding-Through
7. Strange Loop
8. This Is How We Do It
9. The Art Teacher
10. Old Foundations in Psychoanalysis
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index