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Title: The Wounded Body: Remembering the Markings of Flesh by Dennis Patrick Slattery ISBN: 0-7914-4382-5 Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr Pub. Date: March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Body as Being in the World
Comment: Even in a world as worshipful of the body such as ours, the ancient split between matter and spirit, between body and soul is still so pervasive that it is an anomaly to think that the body is our way -- indeed the only way -- of existing in the world. Humans are not spirits condemned to the prison of the flesh, waiting for their liberation from matter and escape into the spiritual paradise. Rather they are incarnated spirits and ensouled bodies. They can achieve their wholeness only though their bodies -- and more precisely, their wounded bodies -- since the world in which they live is marked by diseases, pains, psychic sufferings and ultimately death. Through a series of insightful and profound analysis of literary, psychological, artistic and religious masterpieces -- from the ancient Greek tragedies to contemporary American novels -- Slattery offers us a way of imagining our wounded bodies, and through this imagination, reconnect them with the spirits. We owe Slattery an enormous debt for his powerful imagination. No one who reads this book will remain unchallenged and unchanged by his way of seeing the human body as an icon of the divine. I most strongly recommend his book to those seeking wholeness and spiritual transformation.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Renaissance of Consciousness
Comment: My oldest friend, at 80, is an M.D. He still considers himself a country doctor. On a drive through the desert near his retirement home, he confessed his inability to understand the the young who tattoo, scarify, burn, brand, cut, and pierce their bodies. He doesn't understand the concept or reality of bodymind. If only...if only he could read and comprehend Dennis Slattery's 'The Wounded Body'. But this is not for his generation. My friend will die in a Newtonian universe.
Slattery holds us to the mirror of soul; the wounded body is not a pathological manifestation, rather, "within the scars and pains of our wounds is the blossoming flower of freedom; the wound has the capacity to open up to liberation" (p.213). The wound is gold. A door opens.
Each of us plays upon the stage of life, yet for the most part the lines we speak are not our own. Slattery points true North; the direction to an individuated life. Morover, he gives us a map; the map that is always written in our bones, muscle, fascia, and skin. "What we see through the body marked and violated is that memory itself is deeply wounded, scarred, and is in need of a counternarrative that heals" (p. 209).
Now we know what Patricia Berry meant when she said that the way we tell our story is the way we form our therapy, or what James Hillman meant when he wrote that the way we imagine our lives is the way we are going to go on living our lives. Slattery gives voice to our wounds; gives our wounds a connection to the drama of our lives, to the collective, and to the planet. An ecopsychology is inferred; to honor the wound means tending the soul of the world. 'The Wounded Body' is essential reading in depth psychology.
I reccomend this book for psychotherapists, physical therapists, survivors, true artists, medical practitioners, historians, sociologists, political scientists, physicists, mythologists, revolutionaries, ecologists, and shamans.
Rating: 5
Summary: depth psychology inkarnate!
Comment: What a joy it was to turn away from a discussion with a psychologist who believes in psyche as quantifiable brain extrusion (how come these hermetically sealed folks are always the politically correct ones as well?) and get lost in this wondrous work by a marked man known to frequent the Pacifica Graduate Institute, one of my favorite hangouts and a delphic magnet for depth-oriented subversives.
The author has given us a finely researched prose-poem pulsing with creative insights and daring questions: a psychology of the gut for a malnourished time when so much psychology has become gutless as well as bloodless, dismembered and disembodied. A time that has recorded the inversion of Jung's dictum that the gods have become diseases, for when "the cry for myth" is strangled in the rationalist throat, diseases inevitably become our gods.
A few quotations from the book:
"The wound is a special place, a magical place, even a numinous site, an opening where the self and the world may meet on new terms, perhaps violently, so that we are marked out and off, a territory assigned to us that is new, and which forever shifts our tracing in the world."
"Identity involves suffering, a suffering into the self through soul."
"Where we have been marked is where the soft spot of our being is, where we are most finite; but it is also where the hinge is located that marks the pivot of our history and our destiny."
This book won't catch you if you're into trance-ending your wounds and weaknesses, flying over them into a stratospheric spirituality that gleams with powdered sugar and positive thinking: a Promethean leap that disregards the shadow over which it later stumbles into a deflating, angry bitterness akin to that of Captain Ahab, the idealist-gone wrong who raged, "There can be no hearts above the snowline."
But if you want to listen to the spaces opened up by hurts ("Invulnerable am I only in the heel," wrote Nietzsche), then this enfleshed poetic journey through literature, myth, and psyche itself will stir your blood and get your soul in motion.
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Title: Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas ISBN: 0345368096 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 16 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Essential Jung by C. G. Jung, Anthony Storr ISBN: 0691029350 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 14 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Re-Visioning Psychology by James Hillman ISBN: 0060905638 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 28 January, 1978 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Welcome to My Country by Lauren Slater ISBN: 0385487398 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 14 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Cambridge Companion to Jung by Polly Young-Eisendrath, Terence Dawson ISBN: 0521478898 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 28 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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