A psychoanalytic view of music composition

Journal/Book: Confinia Psychiatrica. 1973; 16: 220-237.

Abstract: Explores some of the implications of psychoanalytic theory for understanding the nature of music and music composition as human phenomena. Experience as a composer is used as the background in describing the process of composition and in speculating on the metapsychology of this phenomenological description. The major thesis is that the sets of experiences and models which go into developing a composer's style can be conceptualized as the development of a musical superego which bears some resemblance to the earlier developed superego of the artist.

Note: psychoanalytic theory; nature of music & composition

Keyword(s): Music ; musical ability; psychoanalytic interpretation

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