The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church.
The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.
Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds. The analyst keeps the surface raw, so that the wound will heal properly.
If you keep picking a scab it will bleed and never heal. If you keep dragging the pain of the past up, it will never heal.
my poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off completely.