Word: knowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resources of imaginative empathy and ordering reason; but it exposes the self to the self. In every psychosis one sees fragmentary versions of oneself dissected out by disease. This leads inevitably to self-revelation and progressive insights. Metaphorically speaking, such experiences expand consciousness. In James' language "I the Knower" looks into the psychic mirror and sees a larger "Me the Known...
...course, when the crisis arrives, the family is forgiving--"overwork, don't you know," and in the meanwhile Mr. Hargrave treats the whole matter, if not with a profound sense, at least with certain touches that show him a knower of human nature beyond the ordinary...