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À partir d’une triple définition de la poésie comme pensée ou sentiment poétique, paysage et contenu poétique, état d’âme poétique, c’est-à-dire sentiment fort et esthétique, l’auteur nous propose un cheminement clinique et philosophique qui interroge la fonction de l’acte poétique dans la séance d’analyse, sa capacité d’expression des affects et sa valeur curative .

Poetry and Psychoanalysis The author of this article takes as starting point a three-fold definition of poetry as a poetic thought or feeling, a poetic landscape and content and a poetic state of mind and intense aesthetic emotion. This is used as the basis of an exploration of the function of the poetic act within the framework of a session of analysis, examined from both the clinical and philosophical standpoint, thus shedding light on the emotionally expressive power and curative value of such moments.