Psychoanalysis as Poetry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8335160 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeanine M Vivona (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1109-1137 |
| Publication date | 2013-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0003065113513639 |
| PMID | 24234981 |
| OpenAlex | W2165820171 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 38 |
Like psychoanalysis, poetry is possible because of the nature of verbal language, particularly its potentials to evoke the sensations of lived experience. These potentials are vestiges of the personal relational context in which language is learned, without which there would be no poetry and no psychoanalysis. Such a view of language infuses psychoanalytic writings on poetry, yet has not been fully elaborated. To further that elaboration, a poem by Billy Collins is presented to illustrate the sensorial and imagistic potentials of words, after which the interpersonal processes of language development are explored in an attempt to elucidate the original nature of words as imbued with personal meaning, embodied resonance, and emotion. This view of language and the verbal form allows a fuller understanding of the therapeutic processes of speech and conversation at the heart of psychoanalysis, including the relational potentials of speech between present individuals, which are beyond the reach of poetry. In one sense, the work of the analyst is to create language that mobilizes the experiential, memorial, and relational potentials of words, and in so doing to make a poet out of the patient so that she too can create such language
Context (archaeology) · Conversation · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Experiential learning · Interpersonal communication · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Poetry · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychotherapist · Communication · History · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Media, Communication, and Education · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Course in General Linguistics
Metaphors We Live By
Recognizing Communicative Intentions in Infancy
Word Learning in Infant- and Adult-Directed Speech
Echoes of echoes? An episodic theory of lexical access.
Intonation and Communicative Intent in Mothers' Speech to Infants
"Schema abstraction" in a multiple-trace memory model.
A Working Poet Comments On Caston's `Poetic Closure, Psychoanalytic Termination, and Death`
Embracing figures of speech
New experiences and meanings
Paradoxical Words and Hope in Psychoanalysis
On the "Music of Thought"
What lies beyond interpretation, and is that the right question
On
Mind to Mind
Psychoanalytic interpretations
Raiding the inarticulate
The foundational level of psychodynamic meaning
The Music of What Happens' in Poetry and Psychoanalysis
The Rooting of the Mind in the Body
From Dyad to Dialogue
Poetic Closure, Psychoanalytic Termination, and Death
Analytic Listening and the Five Senses
Psychoanalysis as an Art and the Fantasy Character of the Psychoanalytic Situation
Embodied Language in Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis
Is There a Nonverbal Period of Development
Language and the Psychoanalytic Process
The Second Person
Eskimo Words for Snow
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |