Год выпуска: 2010 Автор: Emily Bilman Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 192 ISBN: 9783838380636
Описание
This book explores the relations between narcissistic trauma and psychoanalytic symbolism in poetry. I focus on the analysis of the primal scene, the Oedipal conflict and its non-resolution symbolised in T.S.Eliot, Paul Valery, and my poetry. To emphasise sublimation, I refer to the Kleinian case studies, suggesting the resemblances between poetry writing and children''s therapeutic play. T.S. Eliot''s combined personae as Tiresias-Narcissus, and my combined personae in "The Mirage" are related to Klein''s combined parent figure as a defense against castration anxiety. I maintain that poets revert to multiple and to combined personae to resolve their intrapersonal conflicts and write about transgression with a neutral impersonal persona which makes up their "virtuality". My concept of the poet''s "virtuality" is considered to be a defence against poetic ambivalence. Finally, I compare the processes of poetry writing and psychoanalysis and write about Andre Green''s concepts of...
