Sublime

The first major stage of the Great Work was known to alchemists as the unio mentalis, the creation of a unified mind. It's important to note that “mind” in this alchemical sense does not just mean the ordinary thinking mind: it means unity within your own being, your thoughts, your emotion, and your will. We might say it's more like a “unified ment

“part of the miracle of the wild psyche is that no matter how badly a woman is ‘killed,’ no matter how injured, her psychic life continues, and it rises above ground where in soulful circumstances it will sing its way up and out again. Then wrongful harm done is consciously apprehended and the psyche begins restoration.”

L’anima et l’animus fonctionnent donc comme des ponts menant à des images de l’inconscient collectif. Ils sont deux archétypes fondamentaux représentant deux fonctions différentes de l’âme : l’aspect logos (esprit, volonté, engagement, autorité, combativité, puissance, verbe), typiquement masculin, et l’aspect éros (émotion, sentiment, tendresse, s

Mind (ego) divorces the body.

We start in the depths of time and soul, in the collective archetypal lands of equally bright light and darkness, the depository of humanity’s psychic inheritance.

In many aspects the eros, or epithumetikon as opposed to the thumetikon, can be imagined as the complete opposite of the thumos. Whereas the thumos rules over the positive (social) emotions, the eros yearns to set free the (biological) desires and urges. Whereas the thumos represents the vitalizing force of spiritedness, the eros reveals our basic

PSYCHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.