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T. S. Eliot and the Fragmented Selves: From "Suppressed Complex" to Sweeney Agonistes.
From: Philological Quarterly
Date: 19980922
Author:SMITH, GROVER
When lovely woman stoops to folly, we do not think of death; we think of suppressed complexes ... --ALDOUS HUXLEY, Jesting Pilate (1926)
T. S. Eliot, during ten years of personal stress commencing in 1915 used in poetry the psychological phenomenon of dissociation. The term can mean escaping magically from the body, as a wraith; medically it has meant being taken over in hysteria by a subconscious rogue self. Eliot's adaptations lent strangeness to a variety of poetic explorations.
The short poem "Suppressed Complex" heads the list. It has been in print since 1988 in the ...
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