ABSTRACT
This chapter depicts Robert Southwell’s articulation of the process of self-fashioning, the configuration and restoration to wholeness through suffering, scourging, self-annihilation, death, and dismemberment thus unraveling the precarious interplay of multiple selves. It underlines the torment and triumph of the Christian self, marks the progress of the soul from earthly life to judgment day, concretizes the notions of sin and salvation, and outlines the manner by which the numinous conflates feelings of spiritual transcendence registering both positive and negative elements.
