Abstract
Research which tries to understand human experience within the time dimension is entering difficult and uncomfortable territory. Long before the first prospecting research worker arrived on this scene with his questionnaires and statistical methods, creative writers had been exploring the same terrain. Take poetry, for instance. When poets write about the passage of time the visions which they conjure seem nearly always to carry menace. An image offered by Yeats exactly captures the sense of helplessness and haplessness which we may all sometimes experience under the pressure of passing time:The years like great black oxen tread the world.And God the herdsman goads them on behind.And I am broken by their passing feet.
Publisher
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Subject
Psychiatry and Mental health
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