Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Psychoanalysis and Opera: A Felicitous Match
Steven H. Goldberg & Lee Rather
2. The Internal World of Don Giovanni
Richard Rusbridger
3. Across the Great Divide: Reflections on the Moral Reversal in Mozart’s The Magic
Flute
Lee Rather
4. Lucia di Lammermoor: An Intersection of the Oral and Aural Roads
Julie Jaffee Nagel
5. Transformation through the Other: Senta and The Flying Dutchman
L. Eileen Keller
6. The Orpheus of all Secret Misery; The Expression of Profound Grief in Wagner’s
Tristan und Isolde
John J. H. Muller IV
7. The Dark Matter of Wagner’s Dream: Chaos and Creativity in Die Meistersinger von
Nürnberg
Jeanne C. Harasemovitch
8. Evil as Sadistic Perversion in Tosca
Amy Tyson
9. Sliding Walls and Glimpses of the Other in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly
Steven H. Goldberg
10. Elektra: Traumatic loss and the Impossibility of Mourning
Catherine Mallouh
11. Yearning for intimacy: Bela Bartok’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle
Anna Balas MD
12. Reflections on Applied Analysis and a Secret Program in Alban Berg's Wozzeck
Ralph Beaumont
13. Janáček’s Eternal Feminine: The Makropulos Affair
Adele Tutter
14. Billy Budd: A Study in Envy and Repression
Milton Schaefer
15. Sendak and Knussen’s Where the Wild Things Are: A Developmental Journey
Debbie Hindle
16. Appendix: Synopses of the Operas