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The Poetics of Psychoanalysis: In the Wake of Klein

The Poetics of Psychoanalysis: In the Wake of Klein OF KLEIN. By Mary Jacobus. Oxford: Oxford Psychoanalysis can illuminate both the appeal and problems of the poet bodying forth imagination and giving a local habitation and a name to airy nothing and things unknown. Mary Jacobus admirably demonstrates this in her latest collection of essays devoted to the relevance of British object relations psychoanalysis to literature and the visual arts. Like Freud, she begins with dreams. Neuropsychologists today, notably Mark Solms and Oliver Turnbull (2002), attribute dreams to inner or outer stimuli awakening the appetitive interest of the brain’s frontal cortex while we sleep such that neural pathways processing somato-sensory, visual, and auditory information are triggered to produce hallucinations. These hallucinations are then constructed into dreams and symptoms, according to Freud, by the dream-work processes of condensation, displacement, dramatization, symbolization, and secondary revision. To Freud’s account of dreams Jacobus adds the insights of the now little known English literature teacher and psychoanalyst Ella Sharpe, who described dreams as “concrete image thinking” (7), “woven material” (9), and pictures “projected on the screen of our private inner cinema” (Dream Analysis 13). She also demonstrated, Jacobus argues, the truth of Lacan’s concept of “the Thing” as that which is “both http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Comparative Literature Duke University Press

The Poetics of Psychoanalysis: In the Wake of Klein

Sayers, Janet
Comparative Literature , Volume 59 (1) – Jan 1, 2007
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OF KLEIN. By Mary Jacobus. Oxford: Oxford Psychoanalysis can illuminate both the appeal and problems of the poet bodying forth imagination and giving a local habitation and a name to airy nothing and things unknown. Mary Jacobus admirably demonstrates this in her latest collection of essays devoted to the relevance of British object relations psychoanalysis to literature and the visual arts. Like Freud, she begins with dreams. Neuropsychologists today, notably Mark Solms and Oliver Turnbull (2002), attribute dreams to inner or outer stimuli awakening the appetitive interest of the brain’s frontal cortex while we sleep such that neural pathways processing somato-sensory, visual, and auditory information are triggered to produce hallucinations. These hallucinations are then constructed into dreams and symptoms, according to Freud, by the dream-work processes of condensation, displacement, dramatization, symbolization, and secondary revision. To Freud’s account of dreams Jacobus adds the insights of the now little known English literature teacher and psychoanalyst Ella Sharpe, who described dreams as “concrete image thinking” (7), “woven material” (9), and pictures “projected on the screen of our private inner cinema” (Dream Analysis 13). She also demonstrated, Jacobus argues, the truth of Lacan’s concept of “the Thing” as that which is “both

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