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Originally Posted by 0dysseus
Interesting that the original poster copy and pasted my signature of Goethe's Faust in the same translation. I am very familiar with Jung's method of Depth psychology and his search for soul.
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It's a very good quote - have nicked it & used it in a few places.
i think Jung was a pioneer of the psyche - ahead of his time, & ahead of this one.
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That the ancients call the soul, or what today we call the self is shrouded in mystery. There is nothing more intimate to ourselves than consciousness, yet so mysteriously exists.
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It is to my understanding a central question/inquiry.
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In my position the last stronghold of a ruthlessly materialist world is beauty and art. Is poetry grounded in the viscera? That question is for someone at a much higher pay grade than me.
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True art inhabits a higher stage of development, imo.