“Primal Sympathy”: Wordsworth, Infancy, Human Development, and Psychoanalysis

 

An opportunity to discuss Wordsworth’s vision of infancy and later development, focusing on selected texts*, in relation to psychoanalytic theories about early development, in the context of the Lake District landscape. Background materials will be circulated to participants in advance of the event.

* “Ode on the Intimations of Immortality”, and “Lines Composed above Tintern Abbey”.