This book explores how we can understand the place of music from a self psychological perspective, by investigating three journeys; the one we take when listening to music, the literal journey of the author from Nazi Germany to the US, and the subjective round-trip between the past and the present.

Frank M. Lachmann, Ph.D., a psychoanalyst and Founding Faculty of the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity is author or co-author of more than 160 journal publications and books. He is the sole author of Transforming Aggression, and Transforming Narcissism and honorary member of the Vienna Circle for Self Psychology, the William Alanson White Society, and the American Psychoanalytic Association.

1. Overture 2. Words and Melodies, Psychology and Music 3. Thrills, Goose-bumps, and Violations of Expectations in Music 4. Music as Narrative 5. Richard Wagner: Childhood Trauma and Creativity 6. Richard Strauss: Creativity in Crisis and Crises in Creativity 7.Cole Porter:Trauma and Self-Restoration 8. Finale: Music and The Jews