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- Examines the link between T. S. Eliot's personality, his psychiatric
- illness, and his "grouse against life," reflected in his poem The
- Waste Land. The poem is viewed in terms of intersystemic conflict,
- narcissistic injury, and reintegration. Events in Eliot's life that
- eventuated in depression and a brief period of psychotherapy (e.g.,
- sexual failure, death of father, abandonment of mother), the nature of
- his treatment, the significance of his relationship with Ezra Pound,
- and the composition of The Waste Land in terms of its
- psychological meaning are discussed. The work raises questions as to
- the link between psychopathology and artistic creativity. (PsycLIT
- Database Copyright 1988 American Psychological Assn, all rights
- reserved)
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