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The daimon’s “reminders” work in many ways. The daimon motivates. It protects. It invents and persists with stubborn fidelity. It resists compromising reasonableness and often forces deviance and oddity upon its keeper, especially when it is neglected or opposed. It offers comfort and can pull you into its shell, but cannot abide innocence. It can
... See moreJames Hillman • The Soul's Code
“He had a loveless quality, as if he were incapable of emotion. It is difficult to describe, but to me [the affair] seemed to release something in him.” Another who knew Franklin wrote that after losing Lucy he emerged “tougher and more resilient, wiser and more profound, even prior to his paralysis.”
Jean Edward Smith • FDR
Adler was very different from Jung, who revered Freud as a father figure. Though psychology primarily tends to be associated with Freud and Jung, Adler is recognized throughout the rest of the world, along with Freud and Jung, as one of the three giants in this field.
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
Therapists know the human heart, not primarily through books, but by being courageous about exploring their own nature. They may not share our fantasies exactly, but they accept that their own are as colourful and as complex. They don’t have our precise anxieties, but they know well enough the powerful and peculiar fears that hold us all hostage.
Alain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
Harry Crosby was not the only poet to struggle with Sol niger. In her work titled The Black Sun: Depression and Melancholy, Julia Kristeva, a French linguist and Lacanian psychoanalyst, writes about the poet Gerard de Nerval and his poem "El Desdichado," or "The Disinherited" (1859).
Dr. Stanton Marlan • The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness (Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology Book 10)
He poured his heart out in a missive to his little brother, now a respected art dealer himself. He likened himself to a caged bird in spring who feels deeply that it is time for him to do something important but cannot recall what it is, and so “bangs his head against the bars of his cage. And then the cage stays there and the bird is mad with suff
... See moreDavid Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
but by the psychic states with which the corresponding experiences in the patient have united.
Sigmund Freud • Studies in Hysteria
Here's a more detailed breakdown:
- Rational (Logos): This part is associated with reason, wisdom, and intellect, guiding thought and decision-making.
- Spirited (Thymos): T
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What happens in the collective is also taking place within us.