Each age a lens: A transpersonal perspective of Emily Dickinson's creative process.

详细信息   

• 作者：Lynch ; Kelly Sue.
• 学历：Doctor
• 年：2002
• 导师：Frager, Robert
• 毕业院校：Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
• 专业：Psychology, General.;Women's Studies.;Literature, American.;Biography.
• ISBN：0493682899
• CBH：3053917
• Country：USA
• 语种：English
• FileSize：11278758
• Pages：295

文摘

This study explored how Emily Dickinson lived into her self-actualizing creative process. By employing a method of psychobiography, her life was studied, and by employing a method of hermeneutics, her poems and letters were studied. At the start of the study, creativity was defined as integral to the way Dickinson lived her daily life. Transpersonal was defined as beyond and through the self. Psychobiography was utilized to study transformative and transpersonal experiences that follow her process of revisioning her own life through becoming a poet, what poet means, and living the poet's life. A hermeneutical method was developed to focus on the meaning of her words and particular meanings as generated through four hermeneutic lenses, namely, Through One's Body, Compassionate Listening, A Relational Reading, and Hermeneutics of Creative Engagement. Thirty-two poems, along with particular readings, were presented with letter quotes beginning in 1850 through 1886. Both methods were integrated through a transpersonal lens that defined Dickinson's creative process as embodied, engaged, relational, and creative. A model of living the creative life through dwelling, distilling, and disseminating was presented, suggesting how Dickinson was able to live into her self-actualizing creative process. Terms such as self-actualizing creative process and transcending self-actualizing were applied to the findings, suggesting corroboration with Maslow's theories and the uniqueness of Dickinson's creative process. A definition for transpersonal as embodied, engaged, relational, and creative was suggested by the findings. The theoretical and applied aspects of this study have the potential for expanding the integrated study of psychology and literature, the study of lives, and the study of texts, from a psychological and creative perspective.