Opinion by Paul Woodruff: How I learned to heal my soul, with help from love and Socrates
That was why I felt broken on my return, why I needed to put something of myself back together. The problem was not my personal identity; that had remained the same. And it was not my mind, which functioned as well as ever. I realize now it was my soul that was broken. I had been involved in actions that seemed deeply wrong to me, though perhaps necessary in the conduct of the war, and parts of my soul were at war with each other.
A generally sweet-natured veteran I knew, half-waking from a dream, would try to strangle the wife he loved; once fully awakened, he would hate himself. The marriage ended.,” Shakespeare brilliantly portrays moral injury. The murderous Macbeth calls his soul “mine eternal jewel given to the common enemy of man” . He can’t live with what he has become: “To know my deed ’twere best not know myself.” What greater agony than to be constantly running away from who we are? I was lucky.
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