Like a river or a silver thread running through the vehement landscapes of reality – reflections on psychoanalysis and literary theory

The article discusses contributions from literary research and how they imply psychoanalysis in their field of research. Close readings Freud Lacan serve as an opening to overarching question: what can teach us about psychoanalysis? A question that generates a paraphrase: is already involved the practice reading? historical ‘knowledge dependency’ on myth, rhetorical potential resonance made possible by figures dimension, methods contextualization psychoanalytic criticism are emphasized. Psychoanalytic knowledge construction – speech acts perspective be understood attempts represent deal with or reality and, more specifically, traumatic experiences. reflects extent clarity which both theory poetry find words for unconscious ‘the impossible’ might manifest itself movement return departure language. listening translation enriching concepts relationship between literature.