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Headaches or Headless: Who Is Poet Enough?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Teri Stratton
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Abstract

Psychoanalysis has long cited poetry as the expressive vehicle for unconscious production. This article addresses the sexual politics of psychoanalyses conjoining of poetry and the “feminine.” The argument of this text is that the coupling of the “feminine” and the poetic in Lacanian discourse is a metaphorical double cross which most often leaves “woman” at a loss for words.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 7 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Philosophy and Language , Spring 1992 , pp. 109 - 119
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Copyright © 1992 by Hypatia, Inc.

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