While it's accurate for me to say that I write for sanity and to clarify for myself ideas and experiences while engaging others who may have similar desires and needs, I can't pretend to understand fully why particular ideas and perspectives fascinate me and repeatedly hold claim to my time and energy. I only know …
Archetypal Psychology – a Brief Account, Part II
In part II of this exploration of James Hillman's book, Archetypal Psychology, a Brief Account, I want to write more specifically about the nature of images within the context of Archetypal Psychology. You can read Part I of the series here. "Archetypal psychology axiomatically assumes imagistic universals, com- parable to the universali fantastici of Vico (Scienza Nuova, …
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Duende
Browsing the WordPress reader I was pleased to be reminded of Duende by blogger Jaq who has a great blog at Ars, Arte et Labore. Jaq links to a lecture on Duende by 20th century Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca: "In his brilliant lecture entitled “The Theory and Play of Duende” Federico García Lorca attempts to shed some light …
Some absorbing work…
I am part of the load Not rightly balanced I drop off in the grass, like the old Cave-sleepers, to browse wherever I fall. For hundreds of thousands of years I have been dust-grains floating and flying in the will of the air, often forgetting ever being in that state, but in sleep I …
A Therapy of Ideas
"Psychology ought to make us feel at home in the world and interested in it and to recognize its beauty. Anything that's beautiful, you fall in love with and anything you fall in love with, you want to keep alive. And that solves the ecological problem and the nuclear problem. You don't want to destroy …
Theoria 