self-visualization

Updated: May 16, 2025

Even with her he could be obstinate and cruel cruel because she was so much less than his mother had become and there were times when, with a queer unchildish power of self-visualization, he saw himself as a small fair-haired monster growing black and blacker with the dark and evil spirit that was in him. But Christine never seemed to see him like that.

I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross) Wylie - The Dark House