Poetry and Psychoanalysis on: ‘A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN’

Facilitated by: Dr Gloriana Bartoli

VENUE: Jubilee Building, 545 Parnell Rd, Parnell, Auckland

And available remotely via Zoom; a link will be sent upon registration

TIME: Friday 23 August 2024 at 7 - 9:30 pm

FEE: $ 20, full-time students $ 10

Wine & cheese will follow the discussion.

The New Zealand Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (NZIPP) is participating in the National Poetry Day with the 5th Poetry Competition and Event on Poetry and Psychoanalysis. The theme will be based on Virginia Woolf’s quote:

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction”.

Psychoanalysis deals with unconscious, preconscious, and conscious processes. Poetry deals with the art of creating poems. Both psychoanalysis and poetry appear to be driven by a sort of unknown matrix toward using words to communicate something about oneself: an inner truth, a hidden reality, a memory, something unknown, a feeling, a thought, a moment of beauty, a traumatic event, …

Virginia Woolf on BBC radio broadcast, 29 April 1937: “Words, English words, are full of echoes, memories, associations—naturally. They have been out and about, on people’s lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. And that is one of the chief difficulties in writing them today—that they are so stored with meanings, with memories, that they have contracted so many famous marriages.”

Up to 3 poems can be sent by 18th August 2024 to NZIPPandPoetry@gmail.com

Winners of the competition will be announced at the Event organised by NZIPP.

All participants are invited to attend and to present the poems submitted to the competition.

Poems will be published on NZIPP Website http://www.psychotherapy.co.nz... and social media.

Further details on: https://www.nzbookawards.nz/na...

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