Acquainted with the night : psychoanalysis and the poetic imagination / edited by Hamish Canham and Carole Satyamurti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Canham, Hamish.

Contributor:

Satyamurti, Carole.

Series:

Tavistock Clinic series.

Tavistock Clinic series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Poetry--History and criticism.

Poetry.

Psycholinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Psychoanalysis and the poetic imagination

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Karnac, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE; FOREWORD; CONTRIBUTORS; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE The vale of soul-making; CHAPTER TWO ""First time ever"": writing the poem in potential space; CHAPTER THREE Wordless words: poetry and the symmetry of being; CHAPTER FOUR The poet and the superego: Klein, Blake and the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel; CHAPTER FIVE ""Time will come and take my love away"": love and loss in three of S hakespearers sonnets; CHAPTER SIX The preacher, the poet, and the psychoanalyst

CHAPTER SEVEN Ghosts in the landscape: Thomas Hardy and the poetry of ""shapes that reveries limn""CHAPTER EIGHT The elusive pursuit of insight: three poems by W. B. Yeats and the human task; CHAPTER NINE ""Feeling into Words"": evocations of childhood in the poems of Seamus Heaney; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9786613068927

9780429910555

042991055X

9780429896323

0429896328

9780429471551

0429471556

9781283068925

1283068923

9781849403757

1849403759

OCLC:

723945247