The Seba library treats Shroud in 8 passages, across 7 authors (including Moore, Thomas, Courtois, Christine A, Campbell, Joseph).
Odysseus’ wife, Penelope, is at home weaving a shroud for Odysseus’ father, and every night she unravels what she has woven. This is the great mystery of the sou
Moore reads Penelope’s endless weaving and unraveling of the shroud as the defining image of the soul’s fidelity to an absent father-principle—labor that sustains meaning precisely through its incompletion.
, Care of the Soul Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition: A Guide, 1992thesis
that shroud around your heart? Client: A caring fondness… If it didn’t have to carry so much rage, would this shroud have to work so hard to protect you from it?
In trauma therapy, the shroud names an internal protective structure encasing unbearable affect—a psychic defense that must be honored before the rage it contains can be safely approached.
, Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders (Adults) thesis
they set it in the fold of his shroud. Then they wrapped the deceased in his blankets, secured him strongly, and placed before him, one at a time, certain papers
Campbell presents the Aztec mortuary shroud as a ritual container within which sacred provisions for the afterlife journey are deposited, making the shroud a threshold object between worlds.
, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, 2015thesis
Like Odysseus’ wife Penelope weaving a shroud the whole time of the odyssey. Demeter’s pain, neurotic activities, and rage accompany, and therefore serve, the soul’s visit to the underworld.
Moore returns to Penelope’s shroud as an archetypal emblem of soul-work sustained through the dark night of absence, aligning it with Eleusinian mystery and the productive suffering of descent.
, Care of the Soul Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition: A Guide, 1992supporting
always was straining to shroud some one of the Trojans in dark night or go down crashing himself as he fought the bane from the Achaians.
The Iliad employs ‘shroud’ as a martial metaphor for death—to shroud in darkness is to annihilate—establishing the term’s archaic association with extinguishment and obliteration.
, The Iliad of Homer, 2011supporting
The imprint of his face would remain there for weeks, he told me. ‘It was like the Shroud of Turin.’
Lewis deploys the Shroud of Turin as a vernacular metaphor for the traumatic imprint left by addiction’s nadir—an involuntary image of death-in-life branded upon the material world.
, The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease, 2015supporting
quotations from the Bible, Seneca, and Bernard of Clairvaux, as well as the folktale of the shroud and a passage in praise of a recently dead saint.
Auerbach notes the deployment of a folktale of the shroud within a medieval consolatory treatise, situating the shroud within the literary-rhetorical tradition of confronting grief and mortality.
, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, 1953supporting
Shroud lifting on global gulag set up to fight ‘war on terror’: secret detention centres come to light as groups probe human-rights violations.
Alexander cites a newspaper headline using ‘shroud lifting’ as a figure for forced disclosure, a marginal but noteworthy instance of the shroud as metaphor for concealment of systemic violence.
, The Globalisation of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit, 2008aside