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A Sphinx without a Secret (Ellmann, 1987). - Coggle Diagram
A Sphinx without a Secret (Ellmann, 1987).
Oscar Wilde
Fable
Narrator Gerald
Companion Murchison wanted to marry mysterious Lady Alroy
Lady Alroy died of pneumonia
Murchison tormented by her secret
Took tea and left
The Wasteland as a Sphinx without a secret
to force it to confess would be to kill it
Freud
Hysteria
reminiscences
The Waste land is hysterical
hermeneutics
A riddle to itself
superficiality
speaker cannot be identified with its author
collapse of boundaries
Throbbing between two lives
wasteland
thunderous desert
apocalypse bound
wasteground
bomb sites
centre of the dying world
Jerusalem, London, Alexandria
city is the body
abortions, broken finger nails, carious teeth, and female smells
signify culture's decadence and bodily decrepitude
degradation of race
unbiodegradable
waste
what a culture casts away
abject = cast out
separated from rules and morality
emerges in the sickening collapse of limits
disturbs identity, system, order
the ambiguous
the inbetween
Sosostris
horror = in the epidemic not the filth itself
Corpses
dead and living have swapped places
collapse of boundaries
sexual, national, linguistic
Freud's totem and taboo
civilised vs. savage
poem dismantles culture
double consciousness
Chaucer
sorrows for the things it cant say
Us - we - i
voice + character
Tiresias should stabalise nomadic voices
what he sees
product of abjecation
binaries
man vs woman
self vs other
poem = notes, poem, drafts
typist
inbetweenness
amanuensis of the dead
neurotic woman
misogyny
city + body raped
he = passive in his violence
decomposes
heart of darkness
voice
nightingale
powerless la la
The Violet Hour
Freud = compulsion to repeat
Drama fascinates the child
shell shock
Narcissus
dead souls flowering over London bridge
faces unrecognisable
extinction of the self
Prince of Morticians
haunted by precursors
Post WW1
Freud - beyond the pleasure principle
repetition
uncanny
repetition of the dead
heimlich = homely / uncanny
Dog
literary necrophlia
questions theft and originality
literature is nothing but a plague of echoes
HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME
PERFUNCTORY AND BRUTAL SEXUALITY
time is catching up with Lil
slow suicide
Shakespeare
taboos against the dead
contact/ mimises
rehotrical power
prohibition
perverted rituals of purity
displacement
RATS
infection
rattle
Fisher King
Femininity
