{"id":100382,"date":"2017-10-16T12:01:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T11:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=100382"},"modified":"2017-10-15T15:49:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T14:49:18","slug":"the-jungian-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/10\/the-jungian-analyst\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jungian Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"

Too much of herself in that
\nsitting room:<\/p>\n

lines etched on a bronze metal painting;
\nportrait of a nineteenth century
\nimportant woman; three hundred
\nbooks on religion, on soul, on neuroses
\npositioned in discipline; sculpture
\nof a white man\u00a0\u00a0 looking inwards;<\/p>\n

pashmina shawl from Delhi spread
\nover her legs as she would have lain on the chaise:
\na hundred years ago it would have been
\na patient’s couch, telling her analyst
\nshe felt guilty as she feels aroused by him.<\/p>\n

Rough, caramel shaded leather flakes
\nwould fall from armrest of the
\nsofa where I sat; I tried to
\nthink of analysands who sat there over
\nforty years: many of them she must have
\ncalled neurotic, laughed with privilege, and
\ntold them their misery is fantasy.<\/p>\n

Too much of herself in that
\nsitting room: I would hear her tell me
\nof my rage, my hatred of people, of how
\ndeaf to the crowds I was.<\/p>\n

When for the last evening I went,
\nshe hoped that the man,
\nthat man\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 whom I
\ndenounced for two months in obsession,
\nwould fade away from my memory.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em>Which man?\u201d<\/em> I asked, and she
\ndidn’t know; neither did I.<\/p>\n

The white man, sculptured, looking
\ninwards in pain\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 kept on looking.
\nI left.<\/p>\n

__________________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n

This poem was longlisted for the University of Kent Prize for Poet of the Year 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Sumeet Grover is the founder of <\/em>Global Poetry<\/strong><\/a>, dedicated to creativity, human dignity, dialogue and global citizenship. He is a winner of the Portico Brotherton Open Poetry Prize 2014 and was shortlisted for the Jane Martin Poetry Prize in 2014 & 2015. He has authored two books of poetry: <\/em>House Arrest & Disobedience (2015<\/em>) and <\/em>Change (2011<\/em>). Grover is a member of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environmen<\/strong><\/a>t<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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