Imaginal Love

We don’t feel them in Jung’s sense of the word ‒ we identify with them.

become conscious of all the feeling-toned complexes that generally orchestrate the moods and experiences of our daily lives.

Cranz said that our mode of thought “is

Perhaps it is better to say that something has to become present.

It presumes and mirrors one of the fundamental dichotomies that characterizes the Western rationalist world view ‒ that between thought and things.

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.

Corbin died in 1978, the year of Khomeini’s Islamic Revolution in Iran. I assume that Iranian unrest provides the context for Corbin’s remarks.

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

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.