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"""T.S. Eliot and the Mother offers timely and erudite insight into how the T.S. Eliot’s psychological relationship with his mother, Charlotte, underwrites much of Eliot’s literary output. Geary is a fastidious Eliot scholar and his psychoanalytical approach to the ‘maternal poetics’ is a key scholarly source for better appreciating the psychological drama of T.S. Eliot and the female divine."" -- Dr. Scott Freer, Teaching Fellow in English Literature, University of Leicester, UK. ""A profound contribution to both maternal studies and scholarship on T.S. Eliot’s life and works, Geary puts Charlotte Eliot and mother-child ambivalence at the centre of Eliot’s poetic works. Through close analysis of key poems that keep both Charlotte and her son’s poetic oeuvre in the frame, Geary draws out an innovative thesis that Eliot remains gripped by a latent fascination with the mother, we could say with his own ‘internal’ mother, whereby poetry itself becomes a passage, a means of working through maternal ambivalence."" -- Dr. Lisa Baraitser, Professor of Psychosocial Theory, Birkbeck, University of London, UK."

T.S. Eliot and the Mother offers timely and erudite insight into how the T.S. Eliot's psychological relationship with his mother, Charlotte, underwrites much of Eliot's literary output. Geary is a fastidious Eliot scholar and his psychoanalytical approach to the 'maternal poetics' is a key scholarly source for better appreciating the psychological drama of T.S. Eliot and the female divine. -- Dr. Scott Freer, Teaching Fellow in English Literature, University of Leicester, UK. A profound contribution to both maternal studies and scholarship on T.S. Eliot's life and works, Geary puts Charlotte Eliot and mother-child ambivalence at the centre of Eliot's poetic works. Through close analysis of key poems that keep both Charlotte and her son's poetic oeuvre in the frame, Geary draws out an innovative thesis that Eliot remains gripped by a latent fascination with the mother, we could say with his own 'internal' mother, whereby poetry itself becomes a passage, a means of working through maternal ambivalence. -- Dr. Lisa Baraitser, Professor of Psychosocial Theory, Birkbeck, University of London, UK.

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Matthew Geary is an independent scholar in English Literature, Modernism, Psychoanalysis, Feminist Philosophy, Critical Theory, and Maternal Studies.

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