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Meg Harris Williams

September 16 @ 1:26 pm

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Meg Harris Williams

Meg Harris Williams is a visual artist and a writer, and a teacher of psychoanalytic ideas, focusing on the nature of aesthetic experience and the links between psychoanalysis and the arts. Her books include Inspiration in Milton and Keats (1982), A Strange Way of Killing: the poetic structure of Wuthering Heights (1986), The Apprehension of Beauty (with Donald Meltzer; 1988), The Chamber of Maiden Thought (with Margot Waddell, 1991), The Vale of Soulmaking: the post-Kleinian model of the mind (2005), The Aesthetic Development: the poetic spirit of psychoanalysis (2010), Bion’s Dream: a reading of the autobiographies (2010), A Trial of Faith: Hamlet in Analysis (2014), The Becoming Room: filming Bion’s Memoir of the Future (2016), The Art of Personality in Literature and Psychoanalysis (2017), and Dream Sequences in Shakespeare (2020). For children she has written Five Tales from Shakespeare (1996). She has written film and playscripts based on Bion’s Memoir. She teaches and lectures widely in the UK and abroad, mainly on post-Kleinian psychoanalytic ideas and their literary origins and analogies. Meg is a visiting lecturer at the Tavistock Clinic and an Honorary Member of the Psychoanalytic Center of California. She is editor of The Harris Meltzer Trust. Websites: www.artlit.info, www.harris-meltzer-trust.org.uk.


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