
Lament of the Dead

This is itself an absolutely unparalleled window into the psychology of creativity.
Sonu Shamdasani • Lament of the Dead
how “in the midst of life we are in death.”
Sonu Shamdasani • Lament of the Dead
Part of the critical work of understanding in which he engages is a differentiation of the voices, a disidentification.
Sonu Shamdasani • Lament of the Dead
with is reanimating the dead, acknowledging that their presences exist and haunt us.
Sonu Shamdasani • Lament of the Dead
Well, this is Jung without concepts. You find Jung expressing the essence of his activities, tasks, his oeuvre, without a single conceptual term. There is no archetype. There’s no unconscious, and he gets by quite fine without it. In fact, he manages to express himself in a more fitting and particular way.
Sonu Shamdasani • Lament of the Dead
As he says, in a note in the Black Books, Abraxas is the uniting of the Christian God with Satan.106 It’s reincorporating evil into the Godhead. It’s the great theme of Answer to Job.
Sonu Shamdasani • Lament of the Dead
One could say he’s offering therapy for the dead.
Sonu Shamdasani • Lament of the Dead
And it provides a technique for encouraging and learning from imagination. It gives imagination a much more concrete life
Sonu Shamdasani • Lament of the Dead
He’s saying it’s an objective soul that is the deepest personal.