Imaginal Love

This twelfth-century reorientation is the foundation of the modern sense of a self alienated in the world and trapped in a system of merely human meanings.

We have to give up our attachment to psychology itself, to the literalism of psychotherapeutics.

When we conceive of consciousness as a strange magic that happens only in our human heads it sucks the life out of everything else in existence.

More often the Angel appears to us in our communication, our communion, with other people. We have to learn to listen to people.

It is the world we are engaged in saving ‒ not ourselves, not my individual soul.

He said to me once that as he sat lost in contemplation over those ancient texts, sometimes he was afraid that he wouldn’t be able to get back.

Cranz’s project in “phenomenological hermeneutics” is an attempt to reclaim an experience of the psyche that was consciously articulated by Aristotle.

opposite. It is abstraction which is literal; the concrete is always imaginal.

the profoundly inflated sense of the centrality of your own emotions that she brings.

If the progression from sanity towards mental illness is distinguished by degrees of literalism, then the therapeutic road from psychosis back to sanity is one of going back through the same hermeneutic passage ‒ deliteralizing.