Open AccessA View to Distant Hills: Essaying a Grievous Self
Author(s) -
Myna Trustram
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
european journal of life writing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2211-243X
DOI - 10.21827/ejlw.9.36946
Subject(s) - contemplation , narrative , poetry , painting , art , literature , grief , art history , history , philosophy , psychology , theology , psychotherapist
This is a personal essay that attempts (essays) to understand my repeated contemplation of two landscape paintings in the wake of a bereavement. I have gathered together into a fragmented narrative thoughts and impressions provoked by the paintings and by readings of poetry (Czeslaw Milosz), fiction (Samuel Beckett) and psychoanalysis (Marion Milner and D.W. Winnicott). There is no closure or conclusion to the essay since grief is open and perennial.