Download or read book The Compulsion to Create written by Susan Kavaler-Adler and published by Other PressLlc. This book was released on 2000 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In psychobiographies of six famous women writers, the founder of the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis analyzes the role of the idealized male muse (often the Oedipal father) in the creativity of Nin, Plath, Charlotte and Emily Brontd, Dickinson, and Sitwell. First publ