Chris Brooke wrote:
> 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.
Oh yeah, I agree. I was saying the first version, posted to Doug's Yale list, had the typo. But Auden revised much of his work through his life. I've never seen a version with "image," though, so it must be a typo.
Alec
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