Overview
The inner figure of the blind victim, the one who has the power to withstand the dark pull of the archetypal dynamic of illness/wholeness, was particularly active for a long period of time after I initially lost my eyesight. She kept looking for what I could not see, checking each eye over and over again separately, crying out in despair to the other eye to see if it could not grasp what this one could not. As a metaphor pointing to something not seenshadow material not identified withthe soul of my blindness kept reaching out past her claustrophobic confinement to the blackness pressing in on her. She was relentless in her efforts to stay connected to the not-me that might help her learn how to see in another less literal way. I reflect now on how seeing and my sense of self became symbiotic in that what I could see, I felt was still a part of me; I could still be whole. I still had a relationship with these parts of my experience. And what I could not see, was not lost to me forever vanished as if my very sense of myself was suddenly unavailable, absent. Dead.
- | Author: Susanna Ruebsaat
- | Publisher: Pickwick Publications
- | Publication Date: Dec 13, 2018
- | Number of Pages: 278 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/Psychology
- | ISBN-10: 1532613857
- | ISBN-13: 9781532613852
