Nick Owen - poet, psychotherapist, director of Wombtwin.com and wombtwin survivor, and not necessarily in that order - has got some of his most amazing and interesting ideas into print at last.
His thesis is that the destructive relationship between Sylvia Plath and her husband Ted Hughes was a re-enactment of a tragic pre-birth story.
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He says that poetry goes before science, as in our intuition we can "know" things that seem to be unknowable, but in time science proves them right. Wombtwin survivors know about their twin at a deep and wordless level: its our job ( Nick and I and all the others writing about pre-birth material) to bring this work into the light by putting these vague ideas into words.
As wombtwin survivors publish their stories (this is the book!) so we will begin to understand and wake up to the profound influence that pre-birth material is having upon the whole of society, but so few people are aware of this. Wombtwin survivors can be the pioneers, especially those with tangible prof that what they are "remembering" was once a reality.
When a twin dies before birth, the sole survivor needs help and understanding. Womb twin survivors are the sole survivors of a twin or multiple pregnancy. This group, 1 in 10 of the population, includes survivors of a stillbirth, miscarriage, abortion and a "vanishing twin" pregnancy. It is a story of a twin bond broken by death, leaving a lonely survivor.
i absolutely agree with you that Sylvia Plath was a wombtwin survivor...i love her work so dearly...already as teenager...
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