It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it--just as the world reproduces itself i...n the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this wh...en I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Like Freud, Jung believes that the human mind contains archaic remnants, residues of the long history and evolution of mankind. In... the unconscious, primordial "universally human images" lie dormant. Those primordial images are the most ancient, universal and "deep" thoughts of mankind. Since they embody feelings as much as thought, they are properly "thought feelings." Where Freud postulates a mass psyche, Jung postulates a collective psyche.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation.... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal ...of the primordial pact, poetry is the basic text, the foundation of the human order. Surrealism is revolutionary because it is a return to the beginning of all beginnings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Entification begins at arm's length; the points of condensation in the primordial conceptual scheme are things glimpsed, not glimp...ses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The image cannot be dispossessed of a primordial freshness, which idea can never claim. An idea is derivative and tamed. The image... is in the natural or wild state, and it has to be discovered there, not put there, obeying its own law and none of ours. We think we can lay hold of image and take it captive, but the docile captive is not the real image but only the idea, which is the image with its character beaten out of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are various forms taken by the myth of the given ... but they all have in common the idea that the awareness of certain sort...s--and by 'sorts' I have in mind, in the first instance, determinate sense repeatables--is a primordial, non-problematic feature of 'immediate experience.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Archetypes resemble the beds of rivers: dried up because the water has deserted them, though it may return at any time. An archety...pe is something like an old watercourse along which the water of life flowed for a time, digging a deep channel for itself. The longer it flowed the deeper the channel, and the more likely it is that sooner or later the water will return.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »