Why Poetry Needs Psychoanalysis - An Interview with Bianca Stone

[@chomotchomelian]

Refreshing.. and much needed relief. ❤️ Bianca's heart-out glimmers ✨ "Memory Palace" got me good. Thank you for sharing that!

[@chomotchomelian]

Agree that poetry & therapy dance beautifully hand in hand. My current therapist is a lifesaver due to his playful, poetic, spiritual approach of encouraging flow through speech & spatial movement in our sessions. I do have to humbly suggest that psychoanalysis is not entirely new as I've always seen Analyst - Analysand work akin to a Syaykhah - Mureed dynamic in Sufism. Esp when one gets deep into working w desire, diving into metaphysics and the task of enjoying being a "householder" mystic in the world. Plenty of poetry, philosophical meditations & scientific endeavors spring from this work. It's progressively freeing, harmonising for the mortal subject and unseen, immortal subjects. Daniel's puzzled rship w his Daemon is thus relatable. Happened everytime I sit to design, paint or write in the past. Sometimes violently. It improved as I venture further in spiritual practice. In my experience, a good analyst have more in common & in respect to spiritual teachers. Otherwise, like Bianca said of poets, would be a sad handicap for analysts too. Amazing things happen when the two systems merge. Though I soberly don't think poetry need psychoanalysis much like I don't think Sufism need psychoanalysis but not every writer is Joyce, and not every faithful is Meister Eckhart or Ibn Arabi. Having a spiritually-oriented therapist compliments the work I do in my spiritual path, like an additional filtering system. It helps me show up better in Sohbet. Anyone who aren't tapped into spiritual work or esoteric path would benefit from accessing psychoanalysis. Depending on how one goes about it - a dogmatic, pathologising approach will just conjure new masters played by one puppeteering hand. Psychoanalysis is not exempt from misuse & abuse. If fruitfully bridged, we'll no longer be as silly as to assume a spiritual poet of being apolitical. One only need to sit with Arjuna to understand why a monk may raise his bow 🙏🏽✨

[@taromadden2514]

H.D. is an interesting embodiment of the encounter between poetry and psychoanalyisis. She was analyzed by an elderly Freud, and wrote quite a bit about it.

[@jerrypeters1157]

I absolutely loved this conversation. Thanks for sharing!

[@adamaenosh6728]

Another bangin conversation from King Tutt

[@totonow6955]

12:30 it's oject petite a baby..it's das ding 14:35 Isn't whole for Hegel whole / not whole with embrace of lack as perhaps the emancipatory truth? Enjoy your symptom everyone and bear your ambiguities. Form is the limit and limit is emancipatory.

[@brentblackburn976]

Halfway through, still no mention of the concept of inner alchemy and the huge portion of poets actively engaging with the medium as a process of psychoanalysis that both produces something of value and meaning and reflection growth and adaptation within the author.

[@YepX]

Please invite on Alex from the Marx Engles Lenin Institute.