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William Blake’s painting The Ghost of a Flea speaks to processing childhood trauma

By Sarah Corbett, Lecturer in Creative Writing, Lancaster University

In William Blake’s painting The Ghost of a Flea (1820) a huge muscled figure fills the frame. He steps forward, the right side of his body towards the viewer. In one outstretched hand he holds a bleeding bowl (used to catch the blood released during bloodletting) made from an acorn. In the other, a curved thorn stands in for a knife. His tongue…

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