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Mourning and Mysticism in First World War Literature and by George M. Johnson

By George M. Johnson

This publication lines how iconic writers - together with Arthur Conan Doyle, J.M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, Virginia Woolf, Wilfred Owen, and Aldous Huxley - formed their reaction to the lack of household within the First global warfare via their embody of mysticism.

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In other words, the psychological dimension of mysticism does not preclude the spiritual dimension. James suggested that mystical states arose from the subliminal (Varieties 426). He cited Myers’s view that the subliminal was “the enveloping mother-consciousness in each of us” (“Frederic Myers’s” 218), a revealing analogy in the light of object relations and attachment theory. Mystical experience arising from the subliminal invariably involved “reconciliation,” strove towards unity, and conveyed a sense of security (Varieties 388; Browning 258).

In some situations this enabled them to engage in a more ethical form of mourning by honoring Introduction 27 the individuality of lost loved ones. This could prove more therapeutic than officially sanctioned representations of mourning such as war memorials. They might even achieve at-onement, or atonement, with the lost other. With several, their resistant form of mourning appears to have succeeded and enabled writers to then access and creatively renegotiate earlier childhood trauma, as we shall see.

These writers expressed for many the chaotic feelings associated with traumatic bereavement and they suggested possibilities for healing. They extended the horizon of expectations of their readership regarding survival and associated beliefs and helped to alter the important cultural practice of mourning by bringing the imagination to bear on the grieving process. In Mourning and Mysticism I have chosen a collective psychobiographical approach because I feel that these writers’ sustained and courageous grappling with ghosts of their pasts requires psychological probing based on findings from the most pertinent theories about loss and creative repair.

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