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 »
It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out o...f our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in th...e islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and t...he second reeked claret.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us to live,... as nothing else can: no didactic Scripture, anyhow. If the novelist keeps his thumb out of the pan.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where did you come from, Baby dear? Out of the everywhere into the here.... Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church, some Schellin...g or Cousin, I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of life every hour. I am as bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain. He has just foreclosed his freedom, tied his hands, locked himself up and given the key to another to keep.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I shall, I suppose, always remember how The flock of notes those antique negroes blew... Out of Chicago air into A huge remembering pre-electric horn....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »