Carried: Lameness
“I made myself less than I am on purpose, because I learned early that my full force frightened people.”
It shows as a self-imposed handicap, a deliberate hobbling of one's own considerable force to reassure others it will not run roughshod over them, after learning young that one's full potency was felt as a threat. The diminishment is protective, aimed at others' comfort. What it asks for is to stop crippling one's own strength and learn to carry it without flattening anyone.
Claudius, who wore a limp and a stammer and let himself be taken for a harmless fool, and by seeming no threat survived a family that destroyed its stronger sons. The form implies a task: to set down the protective weakness once it is safe to be seen as strong.
What is the "Carried: Lameness" pattern?
It shows as a self-imposed handicap, a deliberate hobbling of one's own considerable force to reassure others it will not run roughshod over them, after learning young that one's full potency was felt as a threat. The diminishment is protective, aimed at others' comfort. What it asks for is to stop crippling one's own strength and learn to carry it without flattening anyone.
What does "Carried: Lameness" sound like when it shows up?
I made myself less than I am on purpose, because I learned early that my full force frightened people.
What is the archetypal form of "Carried: Lameness"?
Claudius, who wore a limp and a stammer and let himself be taken for a harmless fool, and by seeming no threat survived a family that destroyed its stronger sons. The form implies a task: to set down the protective weakness once it is safe to be seen as strong.
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