1997•Unpublished venueRequires access
Harold Bloom: ‘Poetry, Revisionism, And Repression’
Keith Newton
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Abstract
Jacques Derrida asks a central question in his essay on Freud and the Scene of Writing: ‘What is a text, and what must the psyche be if it can be represented by a text?’ My narrower concern with poetry prompts the contrary question: ‘What is a psyche, and what must a text be if it can be represented by a psyche?’ Both Derrida’s question and my own require exploration of three terms: ‘psyche’, ‘text’, ‘represented’.