But his poetic mysticism is irreligious; God has become a "drug," a means of provoking the mystical nirvana. The dream state, the mere emptying out of content, is followed by a second, more active one. Out of the "lethal" experience is projected the intoxication immediately preceding the finding of words. While the Ego is suspended in the tranquillity of the dream, an "original vision" (Urgesicht) emerges from it: "In the original vision life is superseded (anteverbal source of instinct), life ..."
1960, Gottfried Benn, Primal Vision: Selected Writings (New Directions Publishing, →ISBN), page 37:
... beast-shaped, sphinx-pouched features of the primal face. I recalled the dicta of certain profoundly experienced men, that evil would come of their telling all they knew. I thought of the strange adages, that one should give up searching for the ultimate words that need only be spoken to unhinge heaven and earth. I sniffed in masks, I rattled in runes, I dove into demons with sleep-craving brutality, with mythical instincts, in the anteverbal, instinctual threat of prehistoric neura; I began to ...
1963, Report of the Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Studies:
Among the eleven such relationships within binary tactical phrases are anteverbal (nominal or pronominal material preceding verbal material, and postverbal (nominal or pronominal material following verbal material), and when relationships like the anteverbal and postverbal ...
1973, Robert Zoellner, The Salt-Sea Mastodon: A Reading of Moby-Dick, University of California Press, →ISBN, chapter 3, 35:
My far-from-successful attempt here to verbalize what Ishmael means by his pallid image of Lima highlights the fact that the metaphor of the primal form analogizes not only the anteperceptual and the antechronical, but the anteverbal as well.
1987, Akademiski savet FNRJ, Bulletin scientifique: sciences naturelles, techniques et médicales:
... disclose its relationship to objects, indicate the unconscious conflicts and elements of transfer. By tracing dreams of two patients, followed was the course and evaluated the success of psychotherapeutic process. Children's dreams can be a reaction to a trauma, and they include phantasies which were a part of the original situation. Dreams are key to the puzzle of a trauma. Formless, non-structured dreams, lacking symbolism are also specific, speaking of early anteverbal phase.
1929, Eugène Jolas, Transition: An International Workshop for Orphic Creation:
I took up the scent in masks, I rattled among runes, I entered into demons, sleep-tired and brutal, with the instincts of myth, in anteverbal impulsive threatenings of prehistoric neurones, I began to perceive, I received my vision : monism in rhythm, masses in orgies, force and displacement, an anke of the ego. Incomparably bright appeared my vision, as I saw how life in a way had been overcome. Therefore the fleet of a thousand ships, I asked with the dead language of later Rome, in the ...
1959, Generation, UM Libraries, page 19:
... instincts of myth, in anteverbal impulsive threatenings of prehistoric neurones, I began to perceive, I received my vision: monism in rhythm, masses in orgies, force and displacement, an anke of the ego.
1967, Transition:
I took up the scent in masks, I rattled among runes, I entered into demons, sleep- tired and brutal, with the instincts of myth, in anteverbal impulsive threatenings of prehistoric neurones, I began to perceive, I received my vision : monism in rhythm, masses in orgies, force and displacement, an anke of the ego. Incomparably bright appeared my vision, as I saw how life in a way had been overcome. Therefore the fleet of a thousand ships, I asked with the dead language of later Rome, in the ...
1987, Gottfried Benn, Volkmar Sander, Prose, essays, poems:
I sniffed in masks, I rattled in runes, I dove into demons with sleep-craving brutality, with mythical instincts, in the anteverbal, instinctual threat of prehistoric neura; I began to grasp, I saw the vision: monism in rhythms, mass in intoxications, compulsion and repression, ...
