Laura Mullen Quotes About Recognition

Quotes about: Recognition

• We live in a culture that insists on "moving on" (even while our loyalty to and love of the franchise and the sequel give away a larger loopiness). But I tend to dwell or obsess or meditate, and I came back to, for instance, the figure of Dickens's "Miss Havisham" with some (self) recognition if not relief.

  Laura Mullen

  Loyalty, Moving, Self

  Source: therumpus.net

• It's painful, but it's part of the recognition that makes real healing possible, if healing is possible (the jury is out on that, that's the usual phrase - should I say the jury is deadlocked?). Staying with the pain, attending to it, being present to and with it - that's the task, because that's the only (as far as I can tell) hope of finding a way forward.

  Laura Mullen

  Pain, Real, Healing

  Source: therumpus.net

• In Frankenstein there is a transfer first of life into death (in the creation and animation of the monster), and then of death into life, as the monster takes his revenge on the father who gave him life but withheld recognition.

  Laura Mullen

  Revenge, Father, Monsters

  Source: therumpus.net

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