Komninos wrote (of Bachelard):
>even though i might not agree with his 'reverberation of the soul'
>explanation, the reverberation of the psyche, as the poetic moment makes
>sense.
"Psyche" and "soul" are synonyms, even though some modern usage has made
them apparently opposite - the psyche a material version of the soul -
doesn't make much sense to me as a distinction. A good read is Bruno
Bettelheim's elegant little book on the mistranslation of Freud into
English, Freud and Man's Soul.
I'm also curious to know who these "rural romantics" are. Landscape?
Isn't there where we live? Which landscape? Mine are all interior
landscapes - of memory, imagination, desire, etc etc. Hence the
criticism of me as "placeless". But then, I'm an immigrant.
Best
Alison
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