Title
Poetic Agency: Edith Jacobson’s Captivity
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-1-2020
Publication Title
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
Abstract
Imprisoned by the Gestapo, German-Jewish psychoanalyst Edith Jacobson (1897-1978) managed to escape Nazism and successfully continued her psychoanalytic career in American exile. This essay is the first of two on Jacobson's prison notebook, newly published under the title Gefängnisaufzeichnungen. It focuses on the interdisciplinary encounter of prison poetry with psychoanalysis, illustrating the unique therapeutic capacity of poetry to ease pain in states of utter deprivation, and placing specific emphasis on Jacobson’s complex biography and the discovery of her manuscript notebook.
Recommended Citation
Kolb, M. (2020). Poetic Agency: Edith Jacobson’s Captivity. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 68 (5), 979–991. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003065120973625