Morphophobia

Mythologising give existence a glamour that we wouldn't want to be without?

C.G. Jung

Cixous: What I adored was human. Not persons; not totalities, not defined and named beings. But signs. Flashes of being that glanced off me, kindling me (...)

Woolf: Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts are the better the fiction.

Cixous: Look! I blazed up. And the sign withdrew. Vanished. While I burned on and consumed myself wholly. What had reached me, so powerfully cast from a human body, was Beauty (...) I sensed that there was a beyond, to which I did not have access, an unlimited place.

Woolf: One must strain off what was personal and accidental in all these impressions and so reach the pure fluid, the essential oil of truth.

Cixous: The look incited me and also forbade me to enter (...) I was that desire. I was the question. The question with this strange destiny: to seek, to pursue the answer that will appease it, that will annul it (...) the answer for which one continues to move onward, because of which one can never rest, for the love of which one holds back from renouncing, from giving in - to death. Yet what misfortune if the question should happen to meet its answer! Its end!

Woolf: For if she begins to tell the truth, the figure in the looking-glass shrinks; his fitness for life is diminished.

Drucilla Cornell: The imaginary domain is the space of the 'as if' in which we imagine who we might be if we made ourselves our own end and claimed ourselves as our own person.

Woolf: (...) what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about (...) Therefore not merely do effort and labour cease, but also hatred and bitterness.

Yet it is clear that could she have been freed her mind from hate and fear and not heaped it with bitterness and resentment, the fire was hot within her

Drucilla Cornell: Inevitably, persons are involved in integrating, struggling with or against, reimagining or accepting their 'nature' as they draw themselves together to represent who they are.

Woolf: There would always have been that assertion - you cannot do this, you are incapable of doing that - to PROTEST against, to OVERCOME