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"'Dying To Live': Remembering And Forgetting May Sinclair”, Suzanne Raitt
"'Dying To Live': Remembering And Forgetting May Sinclair”, Suzanne Raitt
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For Sinclair, the past was a wound. She feared being unable to escape it, and she feared in turn her own persistence in a form that she could not control. Mystic ecstasy – what she called the “new mysticism” – was a way of entering a timeless realm in which there was no longer any past to damage her. But she was also fascinated by what could never be left behind – hence her interest in heredity, the unconscious, and the supernatural. However, the immanence of the future can also emancipate us from the past, in Sinclair’s view, and this …