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The Poetics of Psychoanalysis:
Freudian Theory Meets
Drama and
Storytelling
By Donald Coleman
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After thirty years as a practicing psychoanalyst, Donald Coleman maintains that future success of Freud’s talking cure must embrace the poetic disciplines. In his book, The Poetics of of Psychoanalysis, Dr. Coleman asks the reader to ponder what might happen if classic Freudian psychoanalysis joined forces with the disciplines of drama, poetry, linguistics, literary criticism, and the new discipline of narratology. Such imaginings, Dr. Coleman contends, could reshape the way psychoanalysts hear
the stories coming from the couch. And he offers evidence that it could also reshape the way they listen to their own private stories.
“I am hoping that this book will convey the sense of two people in the dark water, not knowing what to expect, loving, playing, struggling, hating, hoping, exploring in the middle, and held up by the gravity of love.” The Poetics of Psychoanalysis, then, is about the makers of love and the making of love. “We are all poets,” says Dr. Coleman, “..makers of beautiful utterances, images, relatedness, stories and dramas.” In his book he depicts his interpretation of an analytic love, which he believes is the psychoanalyst’s best-kept secret. He writes that from this flows a special kind of love that is felt knowledge, profound understanding of the other and
the ability to see him/herself in the other.
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