{"title":"Origins of Fictional Characters: Creating Life on the Page","authors":"Fred L Griffin","doi":"10.1080/07351690.2023.2221625","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT There are many perspectives from which the origins of fictional characters may be explored. In this essay the author draws from the voices of a selected group of creative writers who openly describe the manner in which their life experience and personal psychology play important roles in the creative process giving rise to their fictional characters. For some writers whose experience of loss or trauma informs this process, the ongoing act of writing is felt to be essential.","PeriodicalId":46458,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Inquiry","volume":"43 1","pages":"328 - 341"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Psychoanalytic Inquiry","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07351690.2023.2221625","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOANALYSIS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT There are many perspectives from which the origins of fictional characters may be explored. In this essay the author draws from the voices of a selected group of creative writers who openly describe the manner in which their life experience and personal psychology play important roles in the creative process giving rise to their fictional characters. For some writers whose experience of loss or trauma informs this process, the ongoing act of writing is felt to be essential.
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Now published five times a year, Psychoanalytic Inquiry (PI) retains distinction in the world of clinical publishing as a genuinely monographic journal. By dedicating each issue to a single topic, PI achieves a depth of coverage unique to the journal format; by virtue of the topical focus of each issue, it functions as a monograph series covering the most timely issues - theoretical, clinical, developmental , and institutional - before the field. Recent issues, focusing on Unconscious Communication, OCD, Movement and and Body Experience in Exploratory Therapy, Objct Relations, and Motivation, have found an appreciative readership among analysts, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists and a broad range of scholars in the humanities.