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Our screams of pain are not silent!  When Edward Munch gave vision in 1893 to The Scream it seems to me that he recognized a close relative of what I wrote about in my last post, +OUR PAIN: OUTSIDE THE RANGE OF EMPATHY.  He painted the abyss, as well.  Did Munch personally feel pain-beyond-measure?  If he did or if he didn’t, certainly his gift of artistic expression captured in this image a visual presentation of what might well be the bridge across which nobody but those who know this scream can travel.

It seems very possible to me that only those of us who were forced to grow and develop our trauma-altered body-brain in the midst of malevolent early LACK OF mothering-caregiving at the same time we were abused-past-imagining actually NOT ONLY have the physiological ability to feel THIS PAIN — but also that ONLY those who have THIS PAIN built into us CAN feel it.

Who, then, can cross ‘our bridge’ to reach us?

 

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