Acquainted with the Night - Psychoanalysis and the Poetic Imagination (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Karnac Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Tavistock Clinic Series
Release date:	December 2003
First published:	November 2003
Authors:	Hamish Canham
Dimensions:	230 x 150 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	213
ISBN-13:	978-1-85575-963-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory
LSN:	1-85575-963-2
Barcode:	9781855759633

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