Question

what isthe full meaning of poem 'what would freud say ?

Answer 1

There is an important margin of overlap in the aesthetic and the neurotic, in that the act of both the poet and the neurotic are symbolic acts. In so far as this margin prevails, co-ordinates developed for the charting of the one field may be taken over for the charting of the other. There are also important divergencies between the two fields. And in so far as the aesthetic and neurotic fields diverge, there must be a corresponding difference in co-ordinates. Freud's perspective, developed primarily for the charting of neurosis, is better suited to the margin of overlap than to the area of divergency. As regards the margin of overlap, two modifications of Freudian co-ordinates are offered: (1) A poem's structure should be discussed as a recipe or synthesis of several motives rather than in terms of one essential motive with all others treated as derivatives from it; (2) Freud's overly patriarchal emphasis obscures the matriarchal factors operating in literary works that symbolize a change of lineage or identity. As regards the area of divergency, Freud's co-ordinates, in stressing the poem as dream, understress the poem as a communicative structure and as a realistic gauging of human situations. Communication, rather than wish fulfilment, is the key term for literary analysis.