Something there is that doesn't love a wall |
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| Authors: | Emanuel Berman Ph.D. |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Training and Supervising Analyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Institute;2. Department of Psychology , University of Haifa , Haifa, 31905, Israel E-mail: E‐mail: RSPS360@UVM.HAIFA.AC.IL;3. Clinical Professor at the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis , New York University |
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| Abstract: | The history of the stormy love affair between psychoanalysts and literature is explored, with an emphasis on their basic affinity and on the animosity created by analysts’ reductionistic tendencies. Past studies of the dynamics of Robert Frost's emotional world and poetry are reviewed in this context. Ogden's sensitive reading of Frost's poems is portrayed as an example of the potentially mutual egalitarian encounter allowed by newer trends in psychoanalytic theory. |
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