Sentence examples for primal wound from inspiring English sources

It is one of thousands that record the primal wound of the American republic – slavery.

When Leonard was nine, his father died; this moment, a primal wound, was when he first used language as a kind of sacrament.

Mark's inability to engage with women, in spite of his sometimes juvenile fascination with them, is his Rosebud, the primal wound or deficiency from which all of his ambition and accomplishment flows.

Mr. Salerno overplays his hand by making the war the key to nearly everything about Salinger, the primal wound that festers beneath the surface of his stories about young, rich, disaffected Americans.

They seemed to have missed standard literature from last century on the complexities of adoption by adoptee Betty Jean Lifton (Journey of the Adopted Self) and adoptive mother Nancy Newton Verrier (The Primal Wound) and missed the loud and often provocative adoptee movements in this century embodied by web collectives like Land of Gazillion Adoptees and Lost Daughters.

That's why, back in the New Age days of yore, Leonard Orr created "Rebirthing," a technique that uses deep and continuous breathing in order to regress and relive one's birth trauma and heal that primal wound, that original separation from what we knew to be the very source and home of our Being before we were summarily dumped off in a completely bizarre situation.

And in this way St . Aubyns novels seem to be not only books about trauma but traumatized books, condemned to return again and again to primal wounds.

Their union was also much battered and repaired, though it ultimately couldn't survive the demands of such intense proximity, of primal wounds, or a discrepancy in ambition that Ulay suggested in an e-mail.

When Mary Jo Salter's first book of poetry appeared in the mid-1980's, the question was: what to make of a poet so cool, so reticent, so ostentatiously lacking in any primal wounds?

Part of that look was "the pain of an old wound," to bring things full circle to the Carousel pitch from Season 1. Don's primal wounds ensure that he will, until the day he dies, keep on wondering if anyone really loves him and if he's truly capable of love.

Wounded, wounded, wounded!