Archetypal Imagination: Glimpses of the Gods in Life and ArtSteinerBooks, 1992 - 287 pages This unique book is about freeing psychology's poetic imagination from the dead weight of unconscious assumptions about the soul. Whether we think of the soul scientifically or medically, behaviorally or in terms of inner development, all of us are used to thinking of it in an individual context, as something personal. In this book, however, we are asked to consider psychology from a truly transpersonal perspective as a cultural, universal-human phenomenon. Cobb teaches us to look at the world as a record of the soul's struggles to awaken and as the soul's poetry. From this perspective, the real basis of the mind is poetic. Beauty, love, and creativity are as much instincts of the soul as sexuality or hunger. Cobb shows us how artists and mystics can teach us the meaning of love, death, and beauty, if only we can awaken to their creations. The exemplars here are Dante, Rumi, Rilke, Munch, Lorca, Schumann, and Tarkovsky. |
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... Culture and the Culture of Genius 128 Part II : Butterflies and Sphinxes 139 5. THE FIRES OF EROS AND THE ALCHEMY OF SEDUCTION : Notes Toward a Poetics of Love - A Sonata in Five Movements 169 6. PERSEPHONE - Midwife and Muse of ...
... Culture and the Culture of Genius 128 Part II : Butterflies and Sphinxes 139 5. THE FIRES OF EROS AND THE ALCHEMY OF SEDUCTION : Notes Toward a Poetics of Love - A Sonata in Five Movements 169 6. PERSEPHONE - Midwife and Muse of ...
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... culture appealing , and turn it into a practice . Hillman like Jung sustains the originality and subtlety of his work with a vast knowledge of history , philosophy , and religion — in other words , with a mind schooled in tradition and ...
... culture appealing , and turn it into a practice . Hillman like Jung sustains the originality and subtlety of his work with a vast knowledge of history , philosophy , and religion — in other words , with a mind schooled in tradition and ...
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... culture . The book is a record of the last decade of my continuing struggle with the received language of psychology , during this time with the language of C.G. Jung . I was familiar with this kind of " spell " before I met the work of ...
... culture . The book is a record of the last decade of my continuing struggle with the received language of psychology , during this time with the language of C.G. Jung . I was familiar with this kind of " spell " before I met the work of ...
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... culture , they have thrived and deepened . Our " patients " have understood that what matters is not the petty and contrived concerns of transference nor the narcissistic preoccupations of trumped- up " victimizations 16 ARCHETYPAL ...
... culture , they have thrived and deepened . Our " patients " have understood that what matters is not the petty and contrived concerns of transference nor the narcissistic preoccupations of trumped- up " victimizations 16 ARCHETYPAL ...
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... culture is inherently icono- phobic , iconoclastic . Christianity , since the time of the Nicaean Council in A.d. 787 , has fought desperately against the power and reality of the image . We allow images only when they have been safely ...
... culture is inherently icono- phobic , iconoclastic . Christianity , since the time of the Nicaean Council in A.d. 787 , has fought desperately against the power and reality of the image . We allow images only when they have been safely ...
Contents
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THE CAST OF MASKS IN THE LIFE | 128 |
THE FIRES OF EROS | 169 |
PERSEPHONEMidwife and Muse of Metempsychosis | 200 |
WHO IS BEHIND ARCHETYPAL PSYCHOLOGY? | 232 |
NOTES | 265 |
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Page 27 - Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.
Page 142 - They, and they only, can acquire the philosophic imagination, the sacred power of self-intuition, who, within themselves, can interpret and understand the symbol, that the wings of the air-sylph are forming within the skin of the caterpillar...
Page 277 - I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the Heart's affections, and the truth of Imagination. What the Imagination seizes as Beauty must be Truth — whether it existed before or not, — for I have the same idea of all our passions as of Love : they are all, in their sublime, creative of essential Beauty.
Page 173 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive : They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the Academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
Page 79 - Its horror and its beauty are divine. Upon its lips and eyelids seems to lie Loveliness like a shadow, from which shine, Fiery and lurid, struggling underneath, The agonies of anguish and of death.
Page 49 - An agony of trance, An agony of flame that cannot singe a sleeve. Astraddle on the dolphin's mire and blood, Spirit after spirit ! The smithies break the flood, The golden smithies of the Emperor! Marbles of the dancing floor Break bitter furies of complexity, Those images that yet Fresh images beget, That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea.
Page 173 - Subtle as Sphinx; as sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; And, when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
Page 220 - ... (2) That the borders of our memories are as shifting, and that our memories are a part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself. (3) That this great mind and great memory can be evoked by symbols.
Page 193 - My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless; 'Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved. I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one; One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call.
Page 220 - That the borders of our mind are ever shifting, and that many minds can flow into one another, as it were, and create or reveal a single mind, a single energy.