PEP | Article - Clinical: Harry B. Levey. 'Poetry Production as a Supplemental Emergency Defense against Anxiety.' Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 1938, Vol. VII, No. 2, pp. 232–242.

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Abstract

A patient produced poetry during analysis as a form of defence against anxiety and as a means of preserving the repression of aggressive tendencies. The poetry was not a sublimation but an undoing of aggressive impulses. It portrayed serially the various defensive solutions by which she had attempted to resolve the nuclear conflicts of her childhood.

PEP | Article - Clinical: Harry B. Levey. 'Poetry Production as a Supplemental Emergency Defense against Anxiety.' Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 1938, Vol. VII, No. 2, pp. 232–242. - Dooley, Lucile