There is no Guru, there is no Mountain: Beyond the \u201cIdeal Other\u201d and \u201cUtopia\u201d in To the Lighthouse and The Road <\/p>\n\n\n\n
People\n often flock to \u201cgurus\u201d, or throw themselves into movements, that seem \nto offer an answer to life\u2019s antagonisms and sufferings. In To\n the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf and The Road by Cormac McCarthy there \nis a subversion that is being done to free the reader from the cycle \nthat is moving from a guru, or movement, to another, in an intellectual \nsense. People tend to throw themselves to self-help book after self-help\n book in hope of an answer, but in these novels there is a way to escape the ferry wheel that is certainty and embrace the depth and density of life amidst our struggle. In To\n the Lighthouse a psychanalytic framework is helpful for braking free \nfrom the \u201cideal other\u201d, or guru. The Road uses imagery of stillness, \nrelationality, and embodiment to show that a utopia cannot ever be \npossible, yet we should continue into the gray unknown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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