poetic interlude

Chris Brooke chris.brooke at magdalen.oxford.ac.uk
Mon Sep 17 11:08:10 PDT 2001


Alec wrote:


>The _Selected Poems_ has,
>
>> What huge image made
>> A psychopathic god
>
>as,
>
>What huge imago made
>A psychopathic god
>
>Must be a typo.

Not at all: the OED has this,

"Imago: 2. Psychoanalysis. A subjective image of someone (esp. a parent) which a person has subconsciously formed and which continues to influence his attitudes and behaviour."

"Imago" seems to work better, and it's hard to see anything malignly political in the emendation.

C.

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