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Gottlieb, Richard. Maurice Sendak's Trilogy: Disappointment, Fury, and Their Transformation Through Art. Scientific Meeting. 6 March 2010

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Presenter: RICHARD M. GOTTLIEB, MD
Associate Editor, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association;
Training and Supervising Analyst, The Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute;
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Discussant: JANE HANENBERG, EdD
Advanced Candidate in Psychoanalytic Training,Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; Private Practice, Watertown, MA

Discussant: SHARON M. ROBERTS, PhD
Teaching Associate in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School at Cambridge Health Alliance; Faculty, Supervising Analyst, Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis
Faculty, Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Institute

Moderator: DANIEL A. BRENNER, MD
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Faculty, Cambridge Health Alliance
Member, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

In 1981 Maurice Sendak completed the extraordinary trilogy: Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, and Outside Over There. Sendak has said that he is obsessed with one and only one question: “How do children survive?” Sendak’s answer, engagingly expressed in the trilogy, is that it is by means of a poetic function, of creative imagining, and ultimately through art itself, that children may overcome the traumatic circumstances omnipresent during development. Drawing upon his own anguished inner struggle, Sendak addresses our deepest, repressed, unspeakable concerns. Dr. Gottlieb’s discussion of these ideas also includes preliminary sketches that have never been published.

Event Type: Scientific Meeting

Index Terms: Sendak, Maurice - Childhood - Gottlieb, Richard - Scientific Meeting

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