The Other Within by Daniel Deardorff

Author:Daniel Deardorff
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SOC011000 Social Science / Folklore & Mythology
Publisher: North Atlantic Books

I say that one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. . . . The poet makes himself a seer by a long prodigious, and rational disordering of all the senses . . . This is an unspeakable torture during which . . . he becomes the great patient [sick man], the great criminal, the great accursed—and the great learned one [savant]!—among men. For he arrives at the unknown! Because he has cultivated his own soul.41

IN THE EXTRA-ORDINARY vision of Arthur Rimbaud “Heaven and Earth are in contact and combine their influences.” Partaking at once of the above and the below, the Voyant’s trance induces a “disordering of the senses,” a synesthesia, that fosters the often startling associations of metaphor. A plurality that connotes the inclusivity of wisdom—the Voyant is the transgressor who’s wild associations may be described, in Gardner’s words, as the “genius figure, the individual who’s abilities extend across various domains, and who, indeed, is marked by the capacity to find connections between language and music, dance and social communion, the spatial and the personal realms.”42 Alive in the axial-moment, in the crossed and conflated, the mad and ecstatic cointerpenetrations of self and Other:

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