Willem de Kooning’s Women: A Psychoanalytic Exploration
Author: Graeme J. Taylor
Published by International Psychoanalytic Books (ipbooks.net), New York, May 2022.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | xi | |
| Illustrations | xiv | |
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Chapter 1. | Paintings on the Theme of the Woman | 9 |
| Chapter 2. | Searching for Meanings in the "Woman Paintings": The Psychoanalytic Interpretations of Non-Clinician Scholars | 47 |
| Chapter 3. | De Kooning’s Childhood and Adolescence: Traumas and Challenges | 89 |
| Chapter 4 | The Interplay between Internal and External Worlds and the Compulsion to Repeat the Past | 111 |
| Chapter 5. | The Canvas as Container | 153 |
| Chapter 6. | De Kooning’s Relationships with Women and his Self-destructive Alcoholism | 199 |
| Epilogue | 239 | |
| References | 247 | |
| Full Citations for Photo Images | 271 | |
| Index | 275 | |
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