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What Ails Us?
Author(s) -
Muff Janet
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
perspectives in psychiatric care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1744-6163
pISSN - 0031-5990
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6163.1995.tb00465.x
Subject(s) - hero , kingdom , power (physics) , distress , psychoanalysis , history , state (computer science) , law , medicine , psychology , criminology , political science , art , literature , psychotherapist , physics , paleontology , quantum mechanics , biology , algorithm , computer science
The King is seriously ill with a wound that will not heal, and his kingdom has fallen into disrepair. A prophecy many years earlier foretold that an innocent fool would eventually come who would ask the healing question, “What ails thee?” One day Parsifal, a young man, half‐hero and half‐fool, happens on the scene. He notices the King's distress and the dire state of the kingdom, but because his mother has warned him not to be impolite by asking too many questions, he fails to ask the necessary question. Thus the Grail, with its healing power disappears forever, and the King and his kingdom continue to deteriorate.