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dissociation of sensibility

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dissociation of sensibility

Divorce between intellect and emotion. T S Eliot coined this phrase 1921 in an essay on the metaphysical poets of the 17th century. He suggested that Donne, Marvell, and their contemporaries ‘feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose’ whereas later poets disengage intellect from emotion.



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In Balthasar's view, the divorce of theology and spirituality bears special responsibility for the tragic dissociation of sensibility that has plagued Western Christianity for centuries.
Pattern of Redemption: The Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar by Imbelli, Robert P. / Commonweal
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