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Penelope’s monsters: waiting as an epic journey - Aleph William Russell, Pre Raphaelite Art, Greek Heroes, Greek And Roman Mythology, City Museum, Roman Mythology, Pre Raphaelite, Epic Journey, Art Uk

It should not surprise us that there is now a psychological expression called “The Penelope Complex” to portray the existential state of waiting as described by Homer in his Odyssey. A state that many of us are familiar with and that involves ghosts, demons and almost-vanished images of what we could once see. This diagnosis, which is somewhat forced perhaps to counter the famous ‘Ulysses complex,’ omits the really mind bending part that a long wait can imply.

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