How the analyst thinks as clinician and as literary reader

In the previous chapter we described and made use of a form of psychoanalytic literary thinking and writing that refl ects the psychoanalyst’s lived experience of his own work as an analyst and that eschews barren psychological terminology. We stated, “What the psychoanalyst, or the literary critic who wishes to be responsibly psychoanalytic, can bring to literature is a particular type of awareness of the relationship between voice, effects of language, and complex emotional states.”