Sublime

Our lives may be determined less by our childhood than by the way we have learned to imagine our childhoods. We are, this book shall maintain, less damaged by the traumas of childhood than by the traumatic way we remember childhood as a time of unnecessary and externally caused calamities that wrongly shaped us.

In keeping with the specific archetypal figure of the puer, this theory is meant to inspire and revolutionize, and also to excite a fresh erotic attachment to its subject: your subjective and personal autobiography, the way you imagine your life, because how you imagine life strongly impinges upon the raising of children, the attitudes toward the s

Likewise, James Hillman, a Jungian analyst as well as the founder of archetypal psychology,

attention that Jung’s work does have something to do with religion!

The more refined our conscious personality, the more shadow we have built up on the other side.

An unconscious present is a story which will insist on being told and will spill into our biographies.

One is dealing quite specifically with the dead of human history.

The questions of the living, the problems of the living, the suffering of the living can be answered, or addressed, only through attending to the dead.