Freud was, in effect, trying to take the mystery out of myth. Once it was decoded as a history of the unconscious, all was explain...ed. As Anthony Storr put it: "he was only happy when he was reducing things to the lowest common factor; and he did regard the unconscious as primarily the repository of bits of oneself that one couldn't accept." A very different way of looking at the psychology of myth was developed by Freud's one-time friend and colleague Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961). The fundamental difference between the two is immediately apparent in Jung's dictum that modern man is faced with "the necessity of rediscovering the life of the spirit." Jung, who was very interested in archaeology and thought of himself as excavating the mind, took myths to represent the inmost thoughts and feelings of the human race, patterns which are the product of inherited brain patterns.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The New Testament is an invaluable book, though I confess to having been slightly prejudiced against it in my very early days by t...he church and the Sabbath-school, so that it seemed, before I read it, to be the yellowest book in the catalogue. Yet I early escaped from their meshes. It is hard to get the commentaries out of one's head and taste its true flavor.... It would be a poor story to be prejudiced against the Life of Christ because the book has been edited by Christians. In fact, I love this book rarely, though it is a sort of castle in the air to me, which I am permitted to dream.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats,... And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful chan...ges that constitutes growing older.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thou didst create the night, but I made the lamp. Thou didst create clay, but I made the cup.... Thou didst create the deserts, mountains and forests, I produced the orchards, gardens and groves. It is I who made the glass out of stone, And it is I who turn a poison into an antidote.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am not willing to be drawn further into the toils. I cannot accede to the acceptance of gifts upon terms which take the educatio...nal policy of the university out of the hands of the Trustees and Faculty and permit it to be determined by those who give money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery--always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud.... And why? What's this passion for?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I saw a staring virgin stand Where holy Dionysus died,... And tear the heart out of his side, And lay the heart upon her hand And bear that beating heart away;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »