Wasp Sting

A brief, burning sting — and then the pain spreads. The spot swells, grows hot, throbs. What normally fades within a few hours becomes, for some people, a days-long ordeal: massive swelling, severe reactions, lasting impairment. Medically, this is a local or systemic response to wasp venom. From a psychosomatic perspective, a different question arises: why does your body react so intensely to something that, while painful, is in the vast majority of cases harmless?

And there is an even deeper question: why now? Why you? A sting from the outside strikes something in you that is already under tension. Your body amplifies the reaction because what the sting symbolically touches has been hurting long before the sting itself.

A wasp sting is an intrusion from outside. But the wound it tears open lies within.