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The Stigma of Language: a Review of Eleana Vaja’s “Epilepsy Metaphors.”
Works Reviewed. Eleana Vaja. Epilepsy Metaphors. Liminal Spaces of Individuation. There is an image, taken from the life of John Hughlings Jackson, that has somehow impressed itself upon my mind as an emblem of the modern era. Hughlings Jackson, the father of modern neurology, would buy a book from the bookshop, tear it in half, and put…
The Mourning Cloak 