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Trauma and poetry: a psychoanalyst's view on the healing power of the arts.

Partisan Review

| March 22, 2003 | Feirstein, Frederick | COPYRIGHT 2003 Partisan Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

SINCE THE EARLIEST WRITINGS of Freud and his followers, psychoanalysts and critics have tried to construct theories of creativity that link psychoanalysis and the arts. My ideas about the relationship between psychoanalysis and creativity come from my work as a psychoanalyst, from my writing poetry and plays, and from my advanced seminars on symbolization and creativity. They have found their way into my psychoanalytic writings and literary criticism having to do with metaphor, dramatic structure, and meter and rhyme.

In thirty years of clinical work, I've learned to listen carefully for one or two key metaphors that not only express unconscious fantasies but ...

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