The relations between words and objects is based on historic usage, whereas the relation between pathemata and objects is based on likeness. Aristotle's view necessarily implies that pathemata must be universally similar for all language users since all objects are universally the same. Ludovic De Cuypere, Limiting the Iconic Along the same line of my previous …
Under the Influence
Culture In the not too distant past, people everywhere were still insulated from much awareness of the world beyond one's local family and tribe. We might now take for granted how much technology has expanded our reach beyond the immediate time and place we find ourselves in. Mobility through technology allows very different peoples and …
Secret Agent Man
Possession The conceptual framing of one's experience into spatial designations of 'inner and outer,' 'self and other,' 'me and not me,' 'real and imaginary,' shape, categorize, which through the force of habit and time coagulates into an assumed identity referred to as 'me.' Inversely, out of all that remains, the discarded elements of raw experience become what is not …
Syzygy
Next, in James Hillman's book, Anima, the Anatomy of a Personified Notion, he considers whether or not ego, understood here as the most dominant part of our conscious experience and the agent of our identity, is a syzygy of anima and animus. Fascinating idea that can best be considered within the context of western cultural consciousness. While …
“I” is an Aggregate
In this next installment of examining James Hillman's book, Anima, and Anatomy of a Personified Notion, we look at the notion of Ego, and especially its relation to Jung's idea of the Conscious, as he understood these terms. Ego, as an idea, concept or definition, has been with us for a very long time and has a …
Theoria 