Posted by Sigismund on January 6, 2010, at 15:01:18
In reply to Re: framework for trauma / grief? » Sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on January 6, 2010, at 11:12:10
'The burden of optimism' is just me over-egging the sauce. Not as good as 'The calamity of consciousness' either. I suppose you are right.....everything other than love bites the dust in King Lear, though good (Kent) is not rewarded and general good intentions (Albany) are cruelly frustrated.
In Lear I like lots of things, but the high point (so to speak) is Lear and Gloucester together mad and blind: "Oh, are you here with me then?", a touching of bottom, a point beyond which things cannot get worse and therefore a reassurance of sorts.
I've needed a framework to allow the expression and feeling of grief. Odd isn't it?
'Ridiculous the waste sad time, stretching before and after'.
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