Open AccessSelf and Otherness in Norman MacCaig’s Poetry
Author(s) -
Dominique Delmaire
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
e-rea
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1638-1718
DOI - 10.4000/erea.446
Subject(s) - poetry , id, ego and super ego , subject (documents) , reflexive pronoun , self , literature , art , philosophy , psychoanalysis , epistemology , psychology , computer science , library science
No other Scottish poet has concerned himself more thoroughly than Norman MacCaig (1910-1996) — the author of such poems as “Ego,” “Other Self,” “Other self, same self,” and many more in the same vein — with the problematic issue of the subject and his relations to both reality and to his own multiple avatars or projections. “Other self” (Collected Poems 95) is such a case in point that it deserves full quoting: My inmost creature, Caliban perhaps, Perhaps St Francis (at least, a s..