Central to Jungian psychology is the concept of "individuation," the process whereby a person discovers and evolves his Self, as o...pposed to his ego. The ego is a persona, a mask created and demanded by everyday social interaction, and, as such, it constitutes the center of our conscious life, our understanding of ourselves through the eyes of others. The Self, on the other hand, is our true center, our awareness of ourselves without outside interference, and it is developed by bringing the conscious and unconscious parts of our minds into harmony.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Different as the two poets are in many ways, and though Frost conducted a kind of private war with Eliot, it is possible to discer...n interesting resemblances beneath the obvious contrasts. In both men the central theme is metaphysical desolation. Both poets are profoundly at odds with the current of secular optimism flowing from the Enlightenment through the nineteenth century. Frost's New England landscape, spare, hard, and usually unyield ing, inhabited by its declining Yankee stock, can be taken as an extended metaphor expressive of that desolation. In Frost's poetry the central persona or dramatic voice speaking the poems finds ways to live with that desolation. In Eliot's poetry the central persona lives through and finally beyond the desolation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bill: I think maybe you have to come up with excuses just to avoid the moment of truth. Lili: What?... Bill: In a word, Miss Smith, I think it's just possible you're a virgin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no ordinary Part of humane Life which expresseth so much a good Mind, and a right inward Man, as his Behaviour upon Meeti...ng with Strangers, especially such as may seem the most unsuitable Companions to him: Such a Man when he falleth in the Way with Persons of Simplicity and Innocence, however knowing he may be in the Ways of Men, will not vaunt himself thereof; but will the rather hide his Superiority to them, that he may not be painful unto them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[I]f a Fine Lady thinks fit to giggle at Church, or a Great Beau come in drunk to a Play, either shall be sure to hear of it in my... ensuing Paper: For merely as a well-bred Man, I cannot bear these Enormities.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »