Ouroboros
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Ouroboros
Alchemy itself has been seen as gold making, Self-making, and God making, and there are also the divides between phenomena and noumena, limit and transcendence, mechanism and vitalism, thought and being, image and idea, spirit and nature, soul and spirit, ontology and history, absolutism and relativism.
Stanton Marlan • Jung’s Alchemical Philosophy: Psyche and the Mercurial Play of Image and Idea (ISSN)
The snake symbolized life, and the Aborigine creation myth; the objects stood for our time in the outback. Sitting unmoving all day sounds simple. It was anything but simple. At our first performance, we found out how hard it would be.
Marina Abramovic • Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
Erich Neumann was one of C. G. Jung's most creative students and a renowned practitioner of analytical psychology in his own right. In this influential book, Neumann shows how the stages begin and end with the symbol of the Uroboros, the tail-eating serpent. The intermediate stages are projected in the universal myths of the World Creation, Great M... See more