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Mimicry against mimesis in "infant sorrow": seeing through Blake's image with Adorno and Lacan.(Jacques Lacan)(Theodor Adorno)(William Blake)(Critical Essay)

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From: Studies in Romanticism
Date: 20020622
Author:Wagenknecht, David

And the Divine Appearance was the likeness & similitude of Los ...

So saying the Cloud overshadowing divided them asunder Albion stood in terror: not for himself but for his Friend Divine, & Self was lost in the contemplation of faith And wonder at the Divine Mercy & at Los's sublime honour--Jerusalem (1)

Mimicry reveals something in so far as it is distinct from what might be called an itself that is behind.--Jacques Lacan (2)

THE CULMINATING VISION AFFORDED ALBION IN "THE FURNACES OF affliction" (E256) at the end of Jerusalem leads to an apocalyptic dream ("All was ...

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