Spring

Spring 59 - 1996

Opening the Dreamway: In the Psyche of Robert Duncan

170 pages, ISBN 1-882670-07-8 / 978-1-882670-07-9, Spring Journal

Articles by James Hillman, Ginette Paris and Charles Boer

When San Francisco’s most elegant poet, the late Robert Duncan (1919-1988), met with East Coast Jungians in a series of sensational evenings in Buffalo, New York, he transformed forever the way psychologists could talk about poetry, dreams, imagination and romance. Transcribed here for the first time, Duncan’s verbal engagements with everything from Jung and Hillman to Williams and Freud are the most ear-opening literary onslaught we have ever presented our readers. A major American poet takes on psychology and Nor Hall, James Hillman, Charles Boer, and Michael Adams, in their own ways, react.