Malady of the modern mind and eliotian metamorphosis

The essay deals with the peculiarities of the modern mind and resultant ponderings. The effort is to define the malaise through an exploration of the categories of the malaise and also speak of the capabilities of the modern mind. It expresses modern man’s inability to confront life, the influence of anxiety, and a failure of feeling, exhaustion and madness which are at the core of modernist thinking. The essay discusses Eliot’s metamorphosis, the growth of his poetry in meaning and attempts to diagnose the malady. It emphasizes the self- transcending character of human existence. The eternal human situation offers liberation of mankind which starts with a total knowledge of man by himself. Through philosophical and existential exploration we can enter into, in effect, another state of consciousness, where we reconnect with each of our will at a deeper and satisfying level.