Imaginal Love

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

different from, even alien to, all previous thought, and … there is nothing normative, or even normal, about it, or us.”

Perhaps we can think of fundamentalism as a stifling, an asphyxiation, and constipation of the soul.

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

the creative and active Imagination. It is the exercise of this faculty, conceived not as a merely human attribute but as continuous with the creative power of the world, that provides the means by which the intensive self can escape from its prison and enter that wider, more-than-human world.

nothing is literal – nothing is only what it seems on the surface. Everything has depth, breadth, and extended reference.

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

Hence, the opposite of idolatry would not consist in breaking idols, in practicing a fierce iconoclasm aimed against every inner or external Image; it would rather consist in rendering the idol transparent to the light invested in it.

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.