This book explores some of the ways in which an understanding of poetry, and the poetic impulse, can be fruitfully informed by psychoanalytic ideas. It could be argued that there is a particular affinity between poetry and psychoanalysis, in that both pay close attention to the precise meanings of linguistic expression, and both, though in different ways, are centrally concerned with unconscious processes. The contributors to this volume, nearly all of them clinicians with a strong interest in literature, explore this connection in a variety of ways, focusing on the work of particular poets, from the prophet Ezekiel to Seamus Heaney.Part of the Tavistock Clinic Series.
Acquainted with the Night: Psychoanalysis and the Poetic Imagination
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Author: Editors: Hamish Canham, Carole Satyamurti & Margot Waddell
Publisher: Karnac Books
Published: 31/12/2003
ISBN: 9781855759633