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    Jerusalem Poems: Psychological Analysis of the Poetry of Ilana Haley
    Jerusalem Poems: Psychological Analysis of the Poetry of Ilana Haley
    Jerusalem Poems: Psychological Analysis of the Poetry of Ilana Haley
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    Jerusalem Poems: Psychological Analysis of the Poetry of Ilana Haley

    By John Brusseau

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    A Psychological expedition into the heart of a poet born into one of the earliest kibbutz in Israel. Both the life of this poet and the life of the early pioneers that built the State of Israel, and by extension, the Jewish people as a whole, are explored in this work with the instruments of Depth Psychology, revealing the insight the unconscious mind brings to the conflicts and hopes our life consists of.
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    Release dateDec 19, 2017
    ISBN9781543922189
    Jerusalem Poems: Psychological Analysis of the Poetry of Ilana Haley

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      Jerusalem Poems - John Brusseau

      © Copyright © 2018 John Brusseau

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review.

      PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

      FIRST EDITION

      Cover and Interior Design by BookBaby

      ISBN (Print) 978-1-54392-217-2 (Ebook) 978-1-54392-218-9

      Published by John Brusseau

      This book project is dedicated to the Ilana Haley in all of us.

      Contents

      The Psychological Premise of this Book

      About the Analysis

      Foreword

      Introduction

      ANOTHER VISIT

      THERE SHE SITS

      THE HORIZON

      THE DANCE IS FINISHING

      THE BULLFIGHTER

      HOW COULD I LEAVE YOU (your muse)

      AUNT LAN(A telephone call)

      THIS LAND IS FREEDOM

      VISITATION

      THE DREAMER

      SUCH SADNESS

      ALL BECAME CONFUSED

      THE SEA

      SAY THE WORDS

      AND YOU CAME—

      BLIND SMILE ON THE MOON

      MASADA

      THE BEGINNING

      ANEMONES (from the collection after the war)

      The Psychological Premise of this Book

      In writing this book of analysis of the poetry of Ilana Haley it is incumbent upon me to tell you something about my training and experience in the field of human psychology. I never attained a university degree in the discipline of psychology, and have no degree. My credentials are those of a person who has spent his entire adult life providing spiritual and psychological counseling to people in his religious community. Toward that end, of being a capable counselor, I have extensively studied on my own the writings of those who have been to university and have left behind their take on the human condition.

      I have also, and this has been far more necessary and useful to me, learned much from the insights on the human condition uncovered via the analysis of people’s dreams and the talk therapy I have engaged in with those I have served. I have done a great deal of dream work and talk therapy with people over the decades.

      As a result of this study and this experience I have come to understand the human psyche well enough to have formed some of my own ideas about our human psychological systems. I have formed my own model of the psyche and the unconscious mind, and have pioneered a new approach to psychological therapy that relies wholly on the agenda supplied by the unconscious mind of the person being counseled for both the direction the therapy will go in and the information needed to pursue that treatment. I call this approach Conductive Therapy.

      This book of analysis is an example of this Conductive Therapy.

      I wanted to let you know this about me so that you were not left with the impression that a psychologically uninformed person was injecting his unfounded assumptions concerning the psychological implications of a poet’s work.

      In addition to the work I have been engaged in for over three decades as a counselor, I should also let you know that I have met and have become a friend of Ilana’s, as a result of the process of working with her poetry. Even so, most of what I have written about her poetry comes from the decoding of the symbols embedded in her poetic imagery.

      Both as a counselor and as a writer of literary analysis I try to remain true to the contents emerging from the unconscious mind of the person I am working with. You can decide for yourself how well I have done this.

      About the Analysis

      The analysis of Ilana Haley’s poems is designed to work with the symbolically encoded cues emerging from Ilana’s unconscious mind in the form of her poetry. Both the poetry of a poet and the unconscious mind that generates this art form is a deeply personal thing. In as much as these cues are deeply personal, and are also coming from an objectivity on life not generated by the task-oriented cognitive mind, they are also deeply relevant to other people.

      There is something in us that intuitively understands that we are meant to learn from our artistic expressions what it means to be a human being. After all, why do we have such a powerful appetite to feed on the artistic expressions of other people if it is not to help us know ourselves more?

      This book is simply an attempt to satisfy this appetite to know ourselves better. My training in working with the symbolic language of dreams and the insight I have gained from years of listening to the unconscious mind of the people I have counseled are what I am bringing to the poems of Ilana Haley.

      My experience with the unconscious mind of those I have counseled has taught me that there are two versions of our life. The one most of us are aware of (provided by our cognitive, task-oriented mind) and the version we badly need to become aware of (generated by our objective and providential unconscious mind) in the form of the cues it sends up to our cognitive mind as artistic expressions and Freudian slips and all of our compulsions and obsessions.

      Our cognitive mind sits on its throne pondering what we must do about our life, and will either view the contents emerging from our unconscious mind as a threat to its existence or will come to listen to the soft voice of objectivity whispering its insight to us in the language of symbolism.

      I mention these two conscious views because I see Ilana working out two distinctly different views of her own existence. There is cognitive dissonance in her (as there is in all of us) that is crying out to be resolved. Her cognitive mind is tasked with dealing with the hopes and dreams and conflicts and emotional wounds her life consists of, while her unconscious mind is trying to tell her about a tortured world of repressed traumas and emotional wounds that her cognitive mind cannot see or does not want to see. She is aware of the traumas and troubles of her childhood. Yet, in her writing, her unconscious mind is wooing her to resolve the conflicts and wounding she knows about by leading her to face and resolve the emotional wounds she keeps tucked away inside, out of her cognitive path (and somewhat out of her cognitive awareness).

      Doing the work of resolving our emotional wounds requires some belief that it can happen—that our emotional wounds, even wounds we have carried our entire life, can be fully resolved. This belief in the possibility of restoration looks like the hope of a spiritual rebirth, like that spiritual renaissance that is so marvelously expressed in Ilana’s writing.

      Her unconscious mind knows her better than her cognitive mind does. And yes, it might seem quite strange for her to think that there is such a spiritual world inside of her, but it is there nonetheless, symbolically embedded in the oddly religious (biblical) imagery she frequently draws on in her poetry.

      The emotional wounds we suffer result in us being estranged from aspects of our self. The unconscious mind is all about restoring harmony between the various parts of our being. That is

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