Spring Psychoanalytic Poetry Festival : Word and Image

12 Mar 2016

Overview

Organised by The Freud Museum and The Poetry Society In talks, readings, conversations and film screenings, speakers from the worlds of poetry, film and psychoanalysis explore the power of images in memory, imagination and poetry. How is an image re-rendered in a poem, and how might perception be influenced by the poet’s internal world? --- Sessions include: Gerry Byrne on the transformational power of words and images in poetry and psychotherapy. Valerie Sinason on the language of trauma and dissociation. (abstract) Mark Solms on ‘The Mind of the Artist’. (abstract) Eliza Kentridge, poet and artist, reading from and introducing Signs for an Exhibition, and in conversation with Mark Solms. PoetryFilms selected by Zata Banks and introduced by the filmmakers. (Programme) Maurice Riordan with a ‘poem on the couch’, conducting an in-depth analysis of a single poem, Santarém by Elizabeth Bishop. Pascale Petit on how imagery and images filter pain; exploring the creative dialogue she has developed with the work of Frida Kahlo. (abstract) --- For full programme see: http://tinyurl.com/jp7zo4k