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What is Good for the Poem is Good for the Poet

An Experiment in Poetic-Psychoanalytic Therapy

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As Kittay (2001) suggests, and later Sedgwick (2002), literary myth holds promise for better understanding the deep-rooted systems and processes which produce and enforce normalcy. One predominant human myth is transcendence of the body, with variations from ‘enhancing’ the aesthetic body to complete mastery of the body, culminating in the self—as master—transforming the body at will.

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  1. Faculty of Education, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada

    Sean Wiebe

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  1. University of Hull, UK

    Kathleen T. Galvin

  2. University of Victoria, Canada

    Monica Prendergast

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Wiebe, S. (2016). What is Good for the Poem is Good for the Poet. In: Galvin, K.T., Prendergast, M. (eds) Poetic Inquiry II – Seeing, Caring, Understanding. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-316-2_13

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