Catatonia - A Mode of Being Beyond Pathology: An 'Absurd' Poem
Sometimes one is more fascinated by the conceptual and symbolic architecture that could surround a phenomenon. The poem, "Catatonia - A Mode of Being Beyond Pathology" explores the same dimension. It takes the schizophrenic catatonia or the catatonic stupor and imagines what its subjective experience might feel like, when spiritually idealised . Strictly speaking, this is not an attempt to undermine the often-reported experiential "horrors" and the "terrorising" feelings, among others, that usually constitute the 'actual' subjective experience of it. The poem, on my part, is only a creative and imaginative endeavour that follows a strictly conceptual fascination with the " hows " and " whys " of catatonia. In this regard, the reader must pay closer attention to the phrase, "A Mode of Being Beyond Pathology" that serves as a descriptive and cautious anchor to how catatonia is treated in the poem. Frozen. Warped physical...