At first glance Shakespeare's Othello would appear to be about that 'green eyed monster' jealousy' Yet what undergirds jealousy is shame.
What is Shame? but a consciousness of personal inadequacy. In relationships, what strikes one first at the thought of being usurped
is, she is attracted to him more than she is to me. And although the
fire of the 'green eyed monster', jealousy, may blaze in time
it is kindled by that instant feeling of shame, of inadequacy.
What comes with this sense of personal inadequacy - is a sense
of deflation. How is this to be dealt with. How do we reinflate ourselves?
Which brings me to Othello and the language of obstetrics (the branch of medicine that deals with the care of women during pregnancy).
Both with Iago '..methinks
someone has done my office' and Othello, a vulnerable black man in white Venice, after being deflated by Shakespeare's pen, they are reinflated by linguistic fertility
where Othello will swell pregnantly with Iago's "exsufflicate and blown surmises" (III.3.185). It is in the intercourse of language that we are deflated and inflated.
What is Shame? but a consciousness of personal inadequacy. In relationships, what strikes one first at the thought of being usurped
is, she is attracted to him more than she is to me. And although the
fire of the 'green eyed monster', jealousy, may blaze in time
it is kindled by that instant feeling of shame, of inadequacy.
What comes with this sense of personal inadequacy - is a sense
of deflation. How is this to be dealt with. How do we reinflate ourselves?
Which brings me to Othello and the language of obstetrics (the branch of medicine that deals with the care of women during pregnancy).
Both with Iago '..methinks
someone has done my office' and Othello, a vulnerable black man in white Venice, after being deflated by Shakespeare's pen, they are reinflated by linguistic fertility
where Othello will swell pregnantly with Iago's "exsufflicate and blown surmises" (III.3.185). It is in the intercourse of language that we are deflated and inflated.
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