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Title Acquainted with the night : psychoanalysis and the poetic imagination / edited by Hamish Canham and Carole Satyamurti
Published London ; New York : Karnac, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 213 pages)
Series Tavistock Clinic series
Tavistock Clinic series.
Contents The vale of soul-making / Margot Waddell -- "First time ever" : writing the poem in potential space / Carole Satyamurti -- Wordless words : poetry and the symmetry of being / Michael Maltby -- The poet and the superego : Klein, Blake and the book of the prophet Ezekiel / Priscilla Green -- "Time will come and take my love away" : love and loss in three of Shakespeare's sonnets / Kate Barrows -- The preacher, the poet, and the psychoanalyst / Ronald Britton -- Ghosts in the landscape : Thomas Hardy and the poetry of "shapes that reveries limn" / Graham Shulman -- The elusive pursuit of insight : three poems by W.B. Yeats and the human task / Judith Edwards -- "Feeling into words" : evocations of childhood in the poems of Seamus Heaney / Hamish Canham
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Psychoanalysis and literature.
Poetry -- History and criticism.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Poetry
Psychoanalysis and literature
Literaturpsychologie
Psychoanalyse
Lyriker
Literatur
Lyrik
Poésie.
Psychanalyse.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Canham, Hamish.
Satyamurti, Carole.
ISBN 9781849403757
1849403759
9781780496412
1780496419