Opera on the Couch : Music, Emotional Life, and Unconscious Aspects of Mind (Paperback)

Notes on contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Psychoanalysis and Opera: A Felicitous Match Steven H. Goldberg & Lee Rather 2. The Internal World of Don Giovanni Richard Rusbridger 3. Across the Great Divide: Reflections on the Moral Reversal in Mozart’s The Magic Flute Lee Rather 4. Lucia di Lammermoor: An Intersection of the Oral and Aural Roads Julie Jaffee Nagel 5. Transformation through the Other: Senta and The Flying Dutchman L. Eileen Keller 6. The Orpheus of all Secret Misery; The Expression of Profound Grief in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde John J. H. Muller IV 7. The Dark Matter of Wagner’s Dream: Chaos and Creativity in Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Jeanne C. Harasemovitch 8. Evil as Sadistic Perversion in Tosca Amy Tyson 9. Sliding Walls and Glimpses of the Other in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly Steven H. Goldberg 10. Elektra: Traumatic loss and the Impossibility of Mourning Catherine Mallouh 11. Yearning for intimacy: Bela Bartok’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle Anna Balas MD 12. Reflections on Applied Analysis and a Secret Program in Alban Berg's Wozzeck Ralph Beaumont 13. Jana?ek’s Eternal Feminine: The Makropulos Affair Adele Tutter 14. Billy Budd: A Study in Envy and Repression Milton Schaefer 15. Sendak and Knussen’s Where the Wild Things Are: A Developmental Journey Debbie Hindle 16. Appendix: Synopses of the Operas Index