Poetry and Psychoanalysis: The Opening of the Field

ISBN-13: 9780415699013 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 176 str.

David Shaddock

Opis

Poetry and Psychoanalysis: The Opening of the Field provides a guide to applying a poet’s imagination and precision of language to the healing endeavours of psychoanalysis, whilst making a lucid journey through two thousand years of transformative poetry from Virgil, Dante and Blake to the contemporary poet Claudia Rankine.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Preface Part I 01. The Poetics of Psychoanalytic Treatment 02. To Build a New World: Creative and Aesthetic Choices in Psychoanalysis 03. Near the Source of Love Was This: Poems of the Nursery 04. Standing against Silence: Czeslaw Milosz, Denise Levertov and the Poetry of Witness 05. Knowing the Unknowable: The "Difficult" Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Paul Celan Part II 06. Meeting the Father in the Underworld: Virgil’s Aeneid, Book VI 07. "I Was Sent Here to Save Him:" Dante’s Purgatorio as Therapeutic Journey 08. Mind Forg’d Manacles: William Blake and the Emancipation of Consciousness 09. A Universe Between My Hat and My Boots: Whitman’s Self as a Model for empathic connection 010. Wallace Stevens: The World Imagined 011. William Carlos Williams: How to Look, How to Listen 012. Deconstructing Racism: Claudia Rankine’s Citizen References Index

O autorze

David Shaddock, Ph.D., is an award-winning poet and psychotherapist. He is author of four books of poetry and two on couples therapy. His play In a Company of Seekers was performed at the 2012 Spoleto Arts Festival in Italy. He co-leads the couples therapy interest group for the International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology.