ELOQUENT BODY: Our Imprisoned Images

Sunday, 1 September 2013

Our Imprisoned Images

I am giving a talk at the Body Knowledge Conference (2 - 4 September) organised by WISER at WITS on The Image in the Symptom. This lovely quote by Rilke sums it up:

Work of the eyes is done, now

go and do heart-work

on all the images imprisoned within you; for you

overpowered them: but even now you don't know them.

- Rainer Maria Rilke from: Turning Point

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Bettie Coetzee-Lambrecht1 September 2013 at 08:50
brilliant quote! thanks and come and redo the talk here somewhere!
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