'Early in that period of analysis it came to me that the worlds of psychoanalysis and poetry are one and the same.
I was having a session with my analyst, free associating, so the conversation took all kinds of knight's-move and dog-leg turns.
And my analyst made a few quiet responses that helped me see there was an unexpected unity to all of this, a thread of meaning connecting all the images and going to the depths of the relationship between us.
I realised with quiet delight that a good session is a poem. It felt the same as when disparate images finally cohere with unexpected depth and a poem is made. Not all my poems achieve that, of course, just as not all therapy sessions achieve a state of profound connection. But some do, and that's always an occasion for gratitude.'
http://meanjin.com.au/
I was having a session with my analyst, free associating, so the conversation took all kinds of knight's-move and dog-leg turns.
And my analyst made a few quiet responses that helped me see there was an unexpected unity to all of this, a thread of meaning connecting all the images and going to the depths of the relationship between us.
I realised with quiet delight that a good session is a poem. It felt the same as when disparate images finally cohere with unexpected depth and a poem is made. Not all my poems achieve that, of course, just as not all therapy sessions achieve a state of profound connection. But some do, and that's always an occasion for gratitude.'
http://meanjin.com.au/
