tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7781646534201708629.post4277359428692001303..comments2024-01-08T00:08:53.008+00:00Comments on ombhurbhuva: The Jolly Corner by Henry Jamesombhurbhuvahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07789523088428270027noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7781646534201708629.post-62800420942177735432012-10-25T20:44:57.134+01:002012-10-25T20:44:57.134+01:00There's somewhere on the tip of my mind a stor...There's somewhere on the tip of my mind a story of James's about life in a mirror, a through the looking glass sort of tale. Dostoevsky has a double story and R.L.S. a doppleganger.<br />In India I was told of a ritual in which a mantra is uttered when your shadow is the same length as yourself which causes it to be detached and projected above you for the purposes of diagnosis of illness. To be in doubt is to be doubled. ombhurbhuvahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07789523088428270027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7781646534201708629.post-15064769167762022272012-10-25T17:35:37.345+01:002012-10-25T17:35:37.345+01:00It is strange for the double to be the one with th...It is strange for the double to be the one with the castrated fingers. At least he told dear patient Alice that Brydon really does want her after all.<br /><br />Yes Jung's metapsychology is quite theatrical, as is Freud's. The influence on them of stories like Jekyll/Hyde, Dorian Gray, Dracula, and Jolly Corner must have been profound. It's curious how in these stories and theories the repressed material, disjointed and elusive in its early manifestations, eventually congeals into a full-blown alter-ego. Maybe it was easier for the Victorian mind to double the immutable self-essence than to fragment it.john doylehttp://ktismatics.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7781646534201708629.post-42744167353117862252012-10-25T08:45:00.762+01:002012-10-25T08:45:00.762+01:00The black stranger and his more welcome or more au...The black stranger and his more welcome or more auspicious aspect 'the dark stranger'. The story is almost textbook Jung. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_%28psychology%29<br />How deep James can be when he is playing and how tiresomely portentous when serious. The digital ablation of his shadow is pure inspiration and corresponds to the experience that Alexandra David-Neel had of the alteration in the tulpa she conjured who was a Jolly Friar to begin with but became lean and mean as he became detached and out of her control She relates that it took her 6 months of intense work to dissolve the Friar.<br /><br />James wrote this story in 1909 when he was resident at Lamb House in Rye. He later bought it and after his death E.F. Benson who had visited him there leased it from his nephew. It is described in <i>Queen Lucia</i> though the garden room to be seen in that brooding portrait of James, clean shaven and desolate, in the garden, was destroyed by a bomb in the Second World War. (cf. Lamb House, Rye - Images on Google) ombhurbhuvahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07789523088428270027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7781646534201708629.post-59809371189772199182012-10-24T21:20:12.311+01:002012-10-24T21:20:12.311+01:00"“Haven’t you exactly wanted to know how diff..."“Haven’t you exactly wanted to know how different? So this morning,” she said, “you appeared to me.”<br /><br />“Like him?”<br /><br />“A black stranger!”<br /><br />*****<br /><br />Doyle is a surname of Irish origin. The name is a Anglicisation of the Irish Ó Dubhghaill, meaning "descendant of Dubhghall". The personal name Dubhghall contains the elements dubh "black" + gall "stranger".john doylehttp://ktismatics.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com