"The real Primal Scream is unmistakable. It has its own quality of something deep, rattling and involuntary. When the therapist suddenly removes any portion of defence and the patient is left naked with his Pain, he screams because he is wide open to the truth. Though the scream is the most usual reaction, it is neither the sole nor the perennial response to the sudden vulnerability to Pain. Some people moan, groan, writhe and thrash about. The results are the same. What comes out when the person screams is a single feeling that may underlie thousands of previous experiences....Sometimes the patient just needs to scream at first. He screams for the hundreds of shushes, ridicules, humiliations and beatings. He screams now because often he was wounded and wasn't allowed the luxury of bleeding. It's as though someone kept jabbing him with a small pin and could never once yell 'Ouch!'"   

- Arthur Janov 

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“there, manifest and stubborn (one  hears only that) beyond (or before) the meaning of the words, their form…something which is directly the cantor's body, brought to your ears in one and the same movement from deep down in the cavities, the muscles, the membranes, the cartilages...The 'grain' is that" 

- Roland Barthes

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“...from the most troubled of such dreams we awake with a shriek, a cry, in which the affrighted Will expresses itself most immediately, and thus enters at once and definitely, through the cry, into the world of sound, in order to manifest itself outwards”
 
-Richard Wagner

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