Acquainted with the Night : Psychoanalysis and the Poetic Imagination

ISBN-13: 9781855759633 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 240 str.

Hamish Canham; Carole Satyamurti

Opis

Part of the Tavistock Clinic Series. This book explores some of the ways in which an understanding of poetry, and the poetic impulse, can be fruitfully informed by psychoanalytic ideas. The contributors focus on the work of particular poets, from the prophet Ezekiel to Seamus Heaney. They demonstrate the ways in which specific psychoanalytic concepts and theories can enable us to see meanings in a poem which might otherwise not be apparent. Several shed light on the creative process itself.

Spis treści

Series Editor’s Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The vale of soul-making -- “First time ever”: writing the poem in potential space -- Wordless words: poetry and the symmetry of being -- The poet and the superego: Klein, Blake and the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel -- “Time will come and take my love away”: love and loss in three of Shakespeare’s sonnets -- The preacher, the poet, and the psychoanalyst -- Ghosts in the landscape: Thomas Hardy and the poetry of “shapes that reveries limn” -- The elusive pursuit of insight: three poems by W. B. Yeats and the human task -- “Feeling into Words”: evocations of childhood in the poems of Seamus Heaney

O autorze

Canham, Hamish