A Psychoanalytic Reading of Hedva Harechavi’s Poems

Abstract

This article offers a psychoanalytic close reading of Hedva Harechavi’s work, using Matte Blanco’s concept of ‘unconscious symmetric logic’ in an attempt to identify her unique use of language. This unique use attacks the common coordinates of perception and thinking, including time, space and causality, thereby creating a semi-psychotic syntax which annuls any possibility of hierarchy or individuation, causing an extreme fusion of the inside and outside and of cause and effect.