Mis-theorise

Unhappily, Professor Rosamund Tuve's Elizabethan and Metaphysical imagery, which exposed an eras of tendencious misreading and mis-theorising, was by no means an apt presentation of her irresistible case, and while she goes unread Donne continues to be appraised for wonders not his own.

The question is not whether emotion should be introduced into the curriculum; our argument is that the affective and embodied are already aspects of all pedagogical encounters but that in higher education, in particular, emotion is rarely acknowledged and is under- or mis-theorised.

Although they obscured and mis-theorised their insight through their biologism, the Freudians and Kleinians were at least aware of the demonic in human nature as intrinsic to our being, and not merely a reaction to victimisation at the hands of others.