ROCK MUSIC AND PSYCHOANALYSIS (Lewis Aron, et al., Frenis Zero, 2020-2-10)

Many books deal with this subject, but not so many are written by analysts (such as Lewis Aron and Heather Ferguson) who play rock or pop music. Psychoanalysis and psychoanalysts have multi-layered identities. With regards to psychoanalysts, on one side, the discover that some of the most famous of them play (or even compose) music evokes several question: how their musical practice influences their therapeutic work? How their learning music and psychoanalytic training have been interlaced? How the evolution of their clinical theorisations has gone together with their reflection about music and its psychological aspects? Not all contributors of this book are psychoanalysts: Joseph LeDoux is an influential neuroscientist, whose investigations have become precious clues for psychoanalysis, plus he is the founder of music band “Amygdaloids”; and Rod Tweedy is an essayist and editor whose chapter deals with David Bowie. Anyway their interests show that music, and pop/rock music in particular, have oriented consistently their scientific output. (amazon)