A True Note on a Slack String – An Imaginal Basis for Personal Change
This is the title of a new book by psychotherapist Reamonn O’Donnchadha
Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh is considered to be one of the foremost poets of the 20th century. His best known works include the novel Tarry Flynn and the poems Raglan Road and The Great Hunger.
O’Donnchadha weaves together the poetry of Patrick Kavanagh and the psychology of C G Jung to offer an imaginal foundation for individual transformation.
He addresses key concepts such as attachment, shadow, individuation, sexuality and love from the perspective of Jungian psychology and through the lens of Kavanagh’s poetry, “so that doors may open to readers into their own innate resilience and capability not only to survive, but to grow“.
Chapter headings:
Psychopoesis
The Psychologist
The Poet
The Fusion-Distance Dilemma
Unstirred Mud
Place and Displace
The Sparrow’s Bow
The Generous Impulse
My Sixteen-Acre Farm
A Hellish Scatter
The Universal in the Particular
Desire’s Adulation
Pouring Redemption
To Experience Ourselves
The Creative Illness
The Inch-Wide Chasm.
A True Note on a Slack String is published by Spring. Click here for more information