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. and “The motive for metaphor and ” is the title of a short poem of Wallace Stevens in which he says he is and “happy and ” with the subtleties of experience. He likes what he calls the and “half colours of quarter things, and ” as opposed to the certainties, the hard primary and “reds and ” and and “blues. and ” 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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