Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Goss, Phil Michael

Titel

Wordsworth, Loss and the Numinous

Ist Teil von

• The Wordsworth circle, 2012-07, Vol.43 (3), p.152-158

Ort / Verlag

New York: Marilyn Gaull

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

ProQuest_Literature Online_英美文学在线

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• (Childhood Re-imagined: 45) In other words the Child archetype also carries some- thing of what might be "before birth" and "after death." [...]the appearance of a critical loss in childhood may constellate intimations of what lies beyond life and death. [...]there is more going on here, both in her con- scious efforts to find meaning in what happened years ago, in her draw towards this wall, and some deeper, unconscious link to some sense of "otherness" which she cannot find the words for. [...]there was more than one moment in our work when I found a strong image forming in my mind of her standing in front of the wall with the city stretching into the distance, or moments in the consulting room where we seemed far away from each other. [...]the albedo, or whitening, is provided by something numinous which acts as a compen- sation for the loss, a rooted availability of something beyond which opens up deep intimations which go beneath and be- yond normal personal experience. [...]I want to highlight the powerful parallel here with the human experience of grief-the loved one is out of reach in the present, though they were physically present in the past.