THE MOTIVE FOR METAPHOR: BRIEF ESSAYS ON POETRY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
Book ID/图书代码： 02890016B90669
English Summary/英文概要： This book is a small anthology: each chapter a kind of meditation on poetry and psychoanalysis; on a poem, sometimes two; on poetry in general; on thought itself. The poems are beautiful, some are contemporary, some are classical and well worth a reader’s attention.
’The motive for metaphor’ is the title of a short poem of Wallace Stevens in which he says he is ’happy’ with the subtleties of experience. He likes what he calls the ’half colours of quarter things’, as opposed to the certainties, the hard primary ’reds’ and ’blues’. To grasp and make sense of what is elusive (and beautiful), that is, for the essential and puzzling condition of poetry, we are obliged to make metaphors. The same is perhaps true of psychoanalysis-this is the essential argument of the book.
The chapters were originally poetry columns that the author wrote for Psychologist-Psychoanalyst and Division/Review (both journals of the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association). The chapters are arranged alphabetically by poet but otherwise follow no conceptual order. The author hopes that they might be read that way too-the book to be picked up, a few chapters read and thought about, and then put aside for reading more at another time.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这是一本微型诗文选集：每一个章节都是对诗歌和精神分析学的深思。诗歌优美，有些是当代诗歌，有些是古典诗歌，值得一读。
《比喻的动机》是一首短诗的题目，诗歌作者是Wallace Stevens，在该诗歌中，他表示自己对于体验的微妙感十分快乐。他喜欢自己所谓的“四分之一事物的一半色彩”，而不是完全的肯定、主流的红色和蓝色。为了掌握和理解所谓的难以捉摸（美丽），我们不得不使用比喻的修辞手法。这对于精神分析学家而言，恐怕也是同样的道理——这就是本书的主要观点。
每个章节原先是作者为心理学家/精神分析家所写的诗歌专栏。章节按照诗歌字母顺序排列。作者希望读者或许可按照这样的方式来阅读，拿到这本书，读上几个章节，想一想其中的内容，然后放在一旁，再找一个时间继续阅读。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：自弗洛伊德时代起，精神分析学和诗歌学就被联系在了一起。诸如 Sharpe, Lacan, Bion和Winnicott 等精神分析师都体现出这一现象，并且事实上，他们也是基于此创建了自己的临床理论框架。 本书作者Henry M. Seiden’s 非常坚定地支持这一传统，通过生动形象、发人思考的文章，为这一传统贡献了新的视角。他从诗歌角度出发，研究这一现象，然后审视其与精神分析学过程的相互关系。其结果为精神分析学和诗歌提供了新的视角。——David Lichtenstein
Psychoanalysis and poetics have been joined since Freud noted Schiller’s letter to a young poet to illustrate the state of mind conducive to psychoanalytic reflection. Psychoanalysts like Sharpe, Lacan, Bion, and Winnicott have reflected on this link and indeed have built their theories of the clinical process on it. Henry M. Seiden’s lively and evocative essays, collected in this volume, stand firmly in this great tradition, and contribute new perspectives to it. He generally approaches the link from the side of poetry and then examines the interplay with the psychoanalytic process. The results frequently shed new light on both psychoanalysis and poetry and the cumulative effect is to enliven our appreciation of their common roots. --David Lichtenstein, co-founder, faculty, and supervisor at the Apres-Coup Psychoanalytic Association; editor, DIVISION/Review: A Quarterly Psychoanalytic Forum
About the Author/作者介绍： Henry M. Seiden, 博士，心理学家兼精神分析学家，在纽约居住、工作。他在一系列杂志期刊上发表过诗歌，还发表过一本名为“Tinnitus（耳鸣）”畅销故事册。此外，他还发表过针对包括华莱士•史蒂文斯等在内的诗人所写的作品的专业评论文章，以及有关在精神疗法中使用比喻、在儿童精神疗法中使用诗歌等课题方面的专业文章。他与Christopher Lukas合著了《无声的悲痛：自杀后的生活》，现已第四次印刷，并翻译成中文、葡萄牙语、俄语等。他是Division 39董事会成员，现任出版主席。
Henry M. Seiden, PhD, ABPP, is a psychologist and psychoanalyst who lives and practices in Forest Hills, New York. He has published poetry in a number of journals including ’Poetry, Literal Latte, Passager, Midstream’ and the ’Journal of the American Medical Association’. He has also published a chapbook called ’Tinnitus’. His published professional papers include articles on Wallace Stevens, Ernest Hemingway, the longing for home, the use of metaphor in psychotherapy, on using poetry in psychotherapy with children, and on mindfulness, among other subjects.He is co-author (with Christopher Lukas) of ’Silent Grief: Living in the Wake of Suicide’ (Jessica Kingsley, 2007), which was originally published by Scribners and is now in its fourth printing. It has been translated into Chinese, Portuguese and Russian and has been in English as well as American editions. Seiden is a member the Board of Editors of ’Psychoanalytic Psychology’. Several chapters of this book were originally columns on poetry and psychoanalysis in ’Psychologist-Psychoanalyst’ and ’Division/Review’, both journals of Division 39, the Division of Psychoanalysis, of the American Psychological Association. He has been a member at large of the Board of Directors of Division 39 and is currently its Publications Chair.
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