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"tragic art ... deals with the fact that a man is born to die."
Dr. Stanton Marlan • The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness (Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology Book 10)
such as the feminine in himself, the banal, the popularised, the irrational and magic – all that Jung consciously rejected but now finds he has to include in his being.
Christopher Hauke • Visible Mind: Movies, modernity and the unconscious
mysterium tremendum et fascinans
John Green • An Abundance of Katherines
is intimacy that we seek, not enlightenment.
Michael Brown • Alchemy of the Heart
“we cannot put in order the personal welfare of our souls unless we address the welfare of society” (2006, p. 372).
Jason Sugg • Occupy Psyche: Jungian and Archetypal Perspectives on a Movement
‘If you can identify with characters trapped in their circumstances, and share their disappointments as well as their unsteady steps towards liberation, you may find optimism in your own situation’ (Wyke 2004: 12).
Christopher Hauke • Visible Mind: Movies, modernity and the unconscious
If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western civilization.
Terence McKenna • Food of the Gods
In essence, it is the belief that the human world is profoundly damaged and can only be repaired by those who possess the secret which alone can heal it.