This book is a small anthology: each chapter a kind of
meditation-on poetry and psychoanalysis; on a poem, sometimes two;
on poetry in general; on thought itself. The poems are beautiful,
some are contemporary, some are classical and well worth a reader's
attention. "The motive for metaphor" is the title of a short poem
of Wallace Stevens in which he says he is "happy" with the
subtleties of experience. He likes what he calls the "half colours
of quarter things," as opposed to the certainties, the hard primary
"reds" and "blues." To grasp and make sense of what is elusive (and
beautiful), that is, for the essential and puzzling condition of
poetry, we are obliged to make metaphors. The same is perhaps true
of psychoanalysis-this is the essential argument of the book. The
chapters were originally poetry columns that the author wrote for
Psychologist-Psychoanalyst and Division/Review (both journals of
the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological
Association).
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