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Book Review: Climate of Opinion: Sigmund Freud in Poetry

The poet, writer, and educator Irene Willis has published an intriguing book of poems that derive from or refer to psychoanalysis. Her original intent was to solicit from a variety of poets poems that make explicit reference to Freud. Her purview expanded when she began receiving poetry that did not explicitly mention Freud but that concerned itself with psychoanalysis generally and individual analyses in particular. The results are varied, often quite original, and generally fresh and engaging. The book takes its title from W. H. Auden’s “In Memory of Sigmund Freud.” In her introduction Willis quotes the relevant passage: