Anselm Kiefer's work is characterized by its emotional investigations into Germany's historical past. For years, he has probed both the myths and events that have shaped German history and has offered thought-provoking insights into their relationship and significance through his paintings and artist's books. In this text, Rafael Lopez-Pedraza draws on his experience and knowledge as a trained psychologist to present a new reading of Kiefer's work. He addresses the central issues of myth and history in the artist's work through the perspective of Jung's writings, in particular Jung's essay "After the Catastrophe". Unfolding the nature of Kiefer's comlex creativity, the author demonstrates how depth psychology can help us to better understand Kiefer's art and ideas. He uses a variety of images from Kiefer's career to illustrate his argument, providing an overview of Kiefer's entire creative expression.

ANSELM KIEFER AFTER THE CATASTROPHE /ANGLAIS

Lopez-Pedraza, Rafael

Arts & Photography

Thames&Hudson

Anselm Kiefer is one of the most interesting - if controversial - artists in the world today. For years, he has probed both the myths and events that have shaped German history, and has offered, through his majestic paintings and lyrical artist's books, his thought-provoking insights into their relationship and significance. In Anselm Kiefer: The Psychology of "After the Catastrophe," Rafael Lopez-Pedraza presents a carefully woven and challenging new reflection on Kiefer's art, addressing the central issues of myth and history in Kiefer's work through the perspective of C.G. Jung's work, and in particular Jung's essay "After the Catastrophe." Lopez-Pedraza unfolds the nature of Kiefer's complex creativity, demonstrating how depth psychology may help us to better understand Kiefer's art and ideas. To illustrate his argument, Lopez-Pedraza uses a variety of images from Kiefer's richly productive career of over three decades, thus providing a comprehensive overview of Kiefer's entire creative expression.

Anselm Kiefer: The Psychology of "After the Catastrophe"

Individual Artists

George Braziller

Hermes and His Children

Medical Books

Psychology

Spring Audio & Journal

The internationally renowned Jungian analyst Lopez-Pedraza diagnoses the psychological illness at the core of modern society—the loss of embodied soulfulness in individual’s lives. In this study of the Greek god Dionysus, he offers insight for a cure. Dismemberment and cannibalism, Prometheus and Titanic nature, mystical experience, the communal aspect of Dionysiac worship, jazz, flamenco, and bullfighting are among the many twists and turns taken in this essay that winds its way through issues of the body and emotion to open hidden doors for psychotherapy and to cast new light on post-modern humanity. 
Rafael Lopez-Pedraza was born in Cuba in 1920 and later settled in Caracas, Venezuela. In 1962, he moved to Zurich, where for the next eleven years he studied analytical psychology at the C. G. Jung Institute. He returned to Caracas and opened a private practice. He is a member of the international Association for Analytical Psychology and the author of Cultural Anxiety, Hermes and His Children and Anselm Kiefer: The Psychology of "After the Catastrophe.”

Dionysus in Exile: On the Repression of the Body and Emotion

Chiron Publications

Hermes and his Children has become something of a classic among therapists, poets, artists and readers of many callings. Rafael LÃ³pez-Pedraza approaches the soul through myth, pathology, image and the very living of them all. The love and passion of a man fully in his element radiates throughout this unique work, now updated and expanded for this edition.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Daimon Verlag

Four brilliant essays by the author of Hermes and His Children hailing the elemental force of the irrational in a world that is all too often 'explained' and 'understood': - Moon Madness-Titanic Love - Cultural Anxiety - Reflections on the Duende - Consciousness of Failure. López-Pedraza passionately urges us to acknowledge our roots in the soul and our debt to the unknowable.

Cultural Anxiety

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Hermes and his Children has become something of a classic among therapists, poets, artists and readers of many callings. Rafael López-Pedraza approaches the soul through myth, pathology, image and the very living of them all. The love and passion of a man fully in his element radiates throughout this unique work, now updated and expanded for this edition.

HERMES Y SUS HIJOS (Spanish Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Anthropos

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