The Seba library treats Boomerang in 3 passages, across 2 authors (including Schaberg, William H, Hannah, Barbara).
like the boomerang story, I could think of nothing else. Here I thought was the road to power. How little did I see that I was fashioning a weapon that would one day return and cut me to ribbons.
Wilson explicitly converts the boomerang anecdote into a governing metaphor for the self-destructive arc of his ambition, demonstrating the depth-psychological principle that ungoverned will inevitably turns against its possessor.
, Writing the Big Book The Creation of A A , 2019thesis
Grandfather said, for instance, that no one but an Australian could make and throw the boomerang. No school work done, no wood box filled and little sleep was there, until a boomerang had circled the church steeple, returning to almost decapitate him.
Wilson’s earliest surviving draft establishes the boomerang as an emblem of his characterological compulsion — obsessive, boundary-defying mastery undertaken at the expense of all else — and introduces the returning arc as a structural motif for his later ruin.
, Writing the Big Book The Creation of A A , 2019thesis
The historically consequential boomerang effects, then, have less to do with the undoin
Scholarly commentary on Arendt deploys ‘boomerang effects’ to describe how the moral and institutional pathologies of overseas imperialism return to corrupt and destabilize European political orders — a civilizational analog to Wilson’s personal metaphor.
, Encounters with the Soul: Active Imagination as Developed by C. G. Jung, 1981supporting