Archives for June 2025

“Yes, the sun surely is the symbol of the center of consciousness, it is the principle of consciousness because it is light. When you understand a thing, you say: “I see”—and in order to see you need light. The essence of understanding, of cognition, has always been symbolized by the all-seeing of the sun, the wisdom or omniscience of the sun that moves over the earth and sees everything in its light.” Carl Jung (Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar given in 1934-1939) "Symbols in fact envelop the life of man in a network so total that they join together, before he comes into the world, those who are going to engender him "by flesh and blood", so total that they bring to his … [Read more...]

"..in what follows I argue that a great deal will be attained if we can begin to raise (or even to see) the question of Greek Bronze as a question. " Babette Babich (Greek Bronze: Holding a Mirror to Life) “Of course, the fairy-tale world, especially as a magical one, no longer belongs to the present. How can it mirror our wish projections against a background that has long since disappeared? Or, to put it a better way: How can the fairy tale mirror our wish-projections other than in a totally obsolete way? Real kings no longer even exist. The atavistic and simultaneously feudal-transcendental world from which the fairy tale stems and to which it seems to be tied has most certainly … [Read more...]

"Of course, for the person exercising bad faith, it is still a matter covering up an unpleasant truth, or of presenting some pleasant error as the truth. In appearance therefore, bad faith has the structure of a lie. But what changes everything is that in bad faith it is from myself that I am concealing the truth." Jean Paul Sartre (Being and Nothingness) "The Oedipus myth, so fundamental to the psychoanalytic conception of the human dilemma , is an endlessly twisting labyrinth revolving around the question of whether it is better to know or not to know, better to be known or not to be known. If Oedipus had known that the man with whom he entered into battle on the road from Delphi was … [Read more...]