Imagine that: A review of Poetry and Psychoanalysis: The Opening of the Field by David Shaddock

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Notes

¹ Here are those last two stanzas by Dickinson to which Shaddock refers: ”As all the Heavens were a Bell, And Being, but an Ear, And I, and silence, some strange Race Wrecked, solitary, here – And then a Plank in Reason, broke, And I dropped down, and down – And hit a World, at every plunge, And Finished knowing – then--”

² See Thomas Ogden’s, Reverie and Interpretation: Sensing Something Human (Lanham, Maryland: Jason Aronson/Rowman Littlefield Publishers) 1998.