Abstract
Modern day selfishness and senselessness has imperatively necessitated the quest for the
true “Self.” Bereft of his true identity in the confused milieu of modern times, man
frantically searches for a perennial culture of which he was mythically a part and where
he was firmly rooted. The search is not external but rather internal; it is to be carried out
within the inner recesses of mind and not in the external social life; it does not relate to
human life in social progress but in his archetypal realities that are the cornerstones of
eternal human psyche. With us today it is the internal world that is desolate and
uninhabited. The strong desire, which was once with the man of yore to gather ourselves
into the interiority of a rare world of values and convictions, has given way to the
uncertain preoccupations of which we hardly feel ourselves as part. The Mariner’s story
in Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” relates a similar account that can be
accounted for Man’s eternal quest for wholeness.
Mustaq ur Rehman, Syed Zahid Ali Shah, Samina Ashfaq. (2016) The Mariner’s Centre of Gravity: The Self, The Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Volume-24, Issue-2.
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