My essay on Stevens’ “Re-statement of Romance” is now avialable through JSTOR and may be read on-line for free.
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Citation: Steven M. Critelli, “A Note on Stevens’ ‘Re-statement of Romance’ and the ALI’s Restatement of the Law,” Wallace Stevens Journal, Volume 35, Number 1, Spring 2011, 98-105.
AGAINST INTERPRETATION 
Good evening, would you consider this poem by Stevens a psychoanalytical poem? If yes, why?
Lucie: This sounds like an examination question that is designed to test my knowledge of what a psychoanalytical poem is and would surely take more time than I have at present. Almost every poem is capable of being reduced by a psychological analysis. Yet the noted psychiatrist Carl Jung cautioned us against the injudicious application of psychoanalysis to poetry, as neither the poem nor the poet is a patient. See, “On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry” [The Portable Jung (Penguin Books 1971), 301 ff]. If we say the poem is a “psychoanalytical poem,” however, would that characterization improve our understanding of the nature of the poet’s introspective dialogue with his “interior paramour” without inviting speculation on its pathological implications? And wouldn’t this characterization exclude other ways of approaching the poem, e.g., as a philosophical meditation on aesthetics and ontology? As my essay relates (at pp. 2-4), an introspective examination does take place in “Re-Statement of Romance,” as in many of Stevens’s poems; but in this poem I believe the examination concerns ways we imperfectly perceive the world, a common theme for Stevens, and yet we still venture faith and trust in making a place for ourselves in it, which constitutes Steven’s reformulation of the Romantic ideal. I hope this helps.