IHer teacher’s work for the year 1985, and his body in pain, American artist, Eileen Sukkari, offers an argument for the “lack of pain” of the pain and its resistance to the language. “Physical pain” writes, “does not resist the language simply but it is actively destroying it.” Virginia Wolf submitted sixty years ago to be sick, her famous demand on how to dry the language when it comes to the disease. Both theories deal with non -turmoil. She suffers from dangerous and continuous pain requires many feelings: irritation, curiosity (what causes this?), And fear (from evil thing) and in the end the desire to eliminate it. Searching for diagnosis can be delusional like the same condition. In Pathemata: Or, my mouth story, Maggie Nelson tries to solve the mystery of a long -term healthy issue. “Every morning, it seems as if my mouth has survived a war – I needed, has hidden, and has suffered.”
Nelson Bredcrubs back with teen orthodontics visits, frequent battles with tonsillitis and “pushing the tongue” in an attempt to find the source of the problem. She keeps hard to records, medicines and survey, and upload files between GPS and many dentists who show waiting rooms videos. Written during the epidemic, this short work is also a testimony of the horrific uncertainty that was planted at that time. Her partner in a separate support bubble and Nelson make several attempts to vaccinate their son, and her frustration is clear. When the child complains of her anger, she admits: “I never felt angry as I felt over the past two years.”
Pathemata position (Ancient Greek for “The Anti -“) It may be a pandemic pain, but Nelson was never a unilateral writer, even in books that she announced is individual, such as Jin: a murder (the death of her aunt) or Bluets (blue). In this studied work, it digs the duties of paternity, care, bodies, aging, unity and deaths. Timely jumping, lines between reality, dreams and blurring imagination.
Pain is an individual like a fingerprint, however Nelson wonders about the reason “some people who have more bites than any pain that do not suffer from pain, just as two MRIS people might have identical but one cannot get out of the bed and the other does Crossfit.” Do not miss it that the mouth has a symbolic role in the life of the writer: a person whose function revolves around round words, while the pain itself remains unpopular. Compulsory coverage during Covid brings awareness of the number of feelings that are expressed with the mouth. Its appearance means that it becomes an art site: my lips are the fast that I or the Scream by Munch.
Nelson surrenders to the wonderful routines to clarify the news and watch the popular TV programs, but in the midst of social isolation, there is a feeling of loneliness at home as well. Her partner eventually returns to the house and “every activity – the back of the popcorn, the saint of violence on Netflix – floats in a sleeping room – a sleeping room – like fresh abandonment.” The forced imprisonment of the epidemic also means that she must say goodbye to a friend who dies over the phone. Sadness, she cannot stop hearing her friend’s voice, saying her name. “No one ever says my name is like this again – no lover, no parents, no husband, no friend.
In the search for answers, Nelson reads articles on how to kill the epidemic and surprising moments. She feels that “magic leaks from my life.” Concept at the time of forced lock, but there is a clear link to the test; There is less time behind them. Nelson’s action never does self -compassion, and she admits that this failure to summon magic is “unique”. The nostalgia for Balsam was for many during Covid, and in the midst of the possibility of a future full of fear, Nelson remembers her school days, her thesis on Ann Sixon and Silvia Plath and a beloved feminist a theoretical school.
Regulated in short paragraphs, the narration repeatedly revolves around the effects of pain and the consequences of pain, and the disruption causes it. “Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking about all these years, if I don’t spend much time thinking about pain. Then I remember I thought about many other things as well.” For Nelson, the life of pain should coexist along with other roles that you live in: from the mother, the teacher, the lover.
The full title of the book comes from a phrase in ancient Greek, which means “learning through suffering”, which is not simple like a solution to what Nelson calls “the puzzle of pain”. The pain that the martyrs and the saints bear refer to atonement or ecstasy, but Nelson is not religious and does not search for forgiveness. Trying to break the problem of her pain and trying to separate, she invites us to think about our participation. In determining its suffering, it prompts us to imagine our region. The singular as a group is a group, and urges us to live completely in the life that we have, despite physical interruptions, or global deviations.
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