Category Archives: Pain
The Painful Self: Flesh and Body
The soft palate at the back of my mouth collapses during sleep. My breathing stops twenty times each night. Since my oxygen supply drops, I wake up groggy, grumpy and un-refreshed. My body is mine yet it … Continue reading
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Tagged Health, Judith Butler, Medical Specialties, Medicine, Noah, Pain, Pain management, Paul Celan, Soft palate, Suffering
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Trauma and Tragedy
In his foreword to Levine’s book, Shaun McNiff writes that Trauma, Tragedy, Therapy is a “bold, brilliant and imaginative re-visioning of the nature of emotional trauma and its therapeutic treatments”. While I agree that we can interpret poesis on ” … Continue reading
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Tagged Francis Bacon, Levine, Psychological trauma, Rudolf Arnheim, Samuel Beckett, Sarajevo, Susan Sontag, Tragedy, Trauma, Vukovar
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