tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51012559778360470832024-03-05T10:37:55.545-08:00Madness and Civilization, Cosmos and History: An AnthologyEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087009563430439820noreply@blogger.comBlogger218125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101255977836047083.post-81097991318921338552023-06-07T18:14:00.005-07:002023-06-07T18:50:54.085-07:00The Metaphore of the Psyche as a Multi-story House in Jung's Writings. From Memories, Dreams, Reflections, 1954:"Freud
was able to interpret the dreams I was then having [on their trip to
the USA in 1909] only incompletely or not at all. They were dreams with
collective contents, containing, a great deal of symbolic material. One
in particular was important to me, for it led me for the first time to
the concept of the 'collective unconscious'... .""This
was Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087009563430439820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101255977836047083.post-5182035769308735902023-06-02T07:13:00.012-07:002023-06-07T18:51:03.024-07:00'Psilocybin: Magic Mushroom Growers Guide' by Terence and Dennis Mckenna (1976) "...'my god, this thing is what it seems to be, its a galactic intelligence,
its a billion years old, its touched ten million worlds, it knows the
history of a hundred and fifty thousand civilizations, its beyond your
possibility of conceiving, and why it is communicating with an organic
atom like yourself is not entirely clear.'""People are so alienated from their own soul that Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087009563430439820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101255977836047083.post-28818688369302434442019-01-24T20:57:00.001-08:002019-09-20T05:09:51.508-07:00'The Phenomenon of Man' and 'The Heart of Matter' by Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1940, 1950).
"All around us, to right and left, in front and
behind, above and below, we have only to go a little beyond the frontier
of sensible appearances in order to see the divine welling up and showing
through. But it is not only close to us, in front of us, that the divine
presence has revealed itself. It has sprung up universally, and we find
ourselves so surrounded and transfixed by it, thatEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087009563430439820noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101255977836047083.post-86284948305000866822018-08-08T17:58:00.000-07:002020-06-14T05:45:45.383-07:00'Edge of the Sacred: Jung, Psyche, Earth' by David Tacey (1995)
A selection from David Tacey's Edge of the Sacred: Jung, Psyche, Earth (1995). Note: see here for a selection from Lawrence and Jung's writings on the 'New World'. <!--[if gte mso 9]>
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A selection from Philip K. Dick's Exegesis, 1974-1982.
"I
am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist; my novel and
story-writing ability is employed as a means to formulate my perception.
The core of my writing is not art but truth. Thus what I tell is the
truth, yet I can do nothing to alleviate it, either by deed or
explanation. Yet this seems somehow to help a certain kind of Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087009563430439820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101255977836047083.post-64307962294048568242017-12-31T05:02:00.003-08:002018-12-11T17:37:59.066-08:00'VALIS' by Philip K. Dick (1974-82)
From the 1974 Rolling Stones article featuring the author.
A selection from Philip Kindred Dicks VALIS, 1982.
Late
at night, stoned and drunk, glancing at VALIS: it is highly
experimental: absolutely unofficial, anti-official junk art (i.e.,
protest art); made of the garbage of the vernacular, informal in
structure... : it speaks for and in the language of, the fashion of, a
Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087009563430439820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101255977836047083.post-53440291796406308172017-12-31T04:35:00.000-08:002018-01-03T03:40:06.625-08:00'The Life and Times of Martin Luther' by Carlos Martyn (1866)A selection from Carlos Martyn's The Life and Times of Martin Luther, 1866. Besides his biography of Luther, Martyn wrote A History of the Reformation, The Pilgrim Fathers of New England: A History, and A History of the English Puritans. Martyn's history of the Luther's Reformation is a book which could only have been written by an American (in the 'Land of the Pilgrims'), and that is enough to Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087009563430439820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101255977836047083.post-83911766632604017522017-08-20T17:16:00.000-07:002018-07-03T20:48:36.902-07:00'Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought' by Louis Sass (1992)
Giorgio de Chirico, The Seer, 1915
A selection from Louis Sass's Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought (1992).[Work in Progress]
Prologue: The Sleep of ReasonThe madman is a protean figure in the Western imagination... . He has been thought of as a wildman and a beast, as a child and a simpleton, as a waking dreamer, as a prophet in the gripEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087009563430439820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101255977836047083.post-20806870060996765322017-03-28T04:57:00.007-07:002020-02-22T02:29:50.588-08:00'The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man' by Carl Jung (1931)
'The
Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man' by Carl Jung (1931)
A
selection from a lecture given by Carl Jung in Cologne in 1933 titled The
Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man.
...the
collective unconscious [is] the sea upon which the ego rides like a ship. [...]
Just as the sea stretches its broad tongues between the continents and laps
them round like islands, so our Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087009563430439820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101255977836047083.post-61899588145841309032016-12-20T03:06:00.000-08:002017-01-05T04:20:08.350-08:00'The Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Class Employed in the Cotton Manufacture in Manchester' by James Kay-Shuttleworth (1932)
A selection from The Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Class Employed in the Cotton Manufacture in Manchester by James Kay Shuttleworth, 1832.James Kay-Shuttleworth was a physician and economist and founder of the Manchester Statistical Society, "the first organisation in Britain to study social problems systematically and to collect statistics for social purposes. In 1834 it was theEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087009563430439820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101255977836047083.post-90684419155778279622016-10-31T05:30:00.000-07:002017-08-23T05:55:32.175-07:00'The City in History' by Lewis Mumford (1961)[Forthcoming]A selection from Mumford's The City in History published in 1961.
“This metropolitan world, then, is a world where flesh and blood is less
real than paper and ink and celluloid. It is a world where the great
masses of people, unable to have direct contact with more satisfying
means of living, take life vicariously, as readers, spectators, passive
observers: a world where peopleEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087009563430439820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101255977836047083.post-78014478772409680402016-08-06T06:48:00.000-07:002018-10-25T20:25:08.921-07:00'Technics and Civilization' by Lewis Mumford (1934)
A selection from Lewis Mumford's Technics and Civilization, 1934. ObjectivesDuring the last thousand years the material basis and the cultural forms of Western Civilization have been profoundly modified by the development of the machine. While people often call our period the "Machine Age," very few have... any clear notion as to its origins. Popular historians usually date the great Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087009563430439820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101255977836047083.post-21338133856567211042016-03-20T06:32:00.001-07:002016-03-29T05:19:32.566-07:00'The Uncanny' by Sigmund Freud (1919)A selection from Freud's essay The Uncanny, 1919.
I
...the “uncanny” is that class of the terrifying which leads back to something long known to us, once very familiar. How this is possible, in what circumstances the familiar can become uncanny and frightening, I shall show in what follows.The German word unheimlich [Throughout this paper “uncanny” is used as the English translation of “Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087009563430439820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101255977836047083.post-2608403433724895062016-03-06T04:57:00.001-08:002016-03-19T05:53:49.681-07:00'Civilization on Trial' by Arnold Toynbee (1948)
A selection from Civilization on Trial, a collection of essay's and lectures by Arnold Toynbee published in 1948.
Note: for a selection from Arnold Toynbee's 12 Volume magnum opus 'A Study of History', see here. Preface
The unity of outlook [in the essays collected in this volume] lies in the standpoint of a historian who sees the Universe and all that therein is... in irreversible movement Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087009563430439820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101255977836047083.post-72896530248351170932016-02-26T04:38:00.000-08:002016-02-26T04:38:58.588-08:00'Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection' by Julia Kristeva (1980)ForthcomingEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087009563430439820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101255977836047083.post-65545738617215393942015-12-17T05:18:00.001-08:002016-06-23T07:09:02.994-07:00'The Foundations of Culture in Australia' by P.R. Stephensen (1935-36)
I have a persisting sense that the novel sits uneasily in the Australian context, in the Australian landscape ... My impression is that the Australian bush has not been successfully transformed into a Western space fit for established models of writing. It is not a landscape that offers us easy grace, or immediate redemption: it does not have the flavour of settled, European or New World Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087009563430439820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101255977836047083.post-29392670890942386712015-12-06T04:15:00.000-08:002015-12-07T03:06:26.233-08:00'Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche' (1887-89)
Friedrich Nietzsche - Hymnus an das Leben [Hymn of Life]
A selection from the letters of Friedrich Nietzsche written between 1887 and 1889. [Forthcoming]Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087009563430439820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101255977836047083.post-25919373551725471692015-11-25T18:25:00.002-08:002015-11-25T22:43:15.896-08:00'Destiny and History' and 'Freedom of Will and Destiny' Frederick Nietzsche (1862).
Nietzsche, June 1862.
A selection from the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche while he was 17years old on his Easter vacation.
Freedom of Will and Destiny
Generally, "submission to God's will" and "humility" are often nothing more than excuses for cowardly fear of boldly facing destiny.Free will is... an abstract concept and means the capability to act consciously, while, by destiny, we Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087009563430439820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101255977836047083.post-61087538287718508502015-11-18T16:51:00.003-08:002017-08-24T01:40:06.065-07:00'The Meaning of History: Reflections on Spengler, Toynbee and Kant' by Henry Kissinger (1950)
Henry Kissinger in the Class of 1950 Harvard yearbook.
A selection from Henry Kissinger's The Meaning of History: Reflections on Spengler, Toynbee and Kant, 1950. The Meaning of History was Kissinger's senior honors thesis at Harvard. According to Niall Furguson, it made history by being the longest honors thesis at Harvard. Kissinger's doctoral dissertation Peace, Legitimacy, and the Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087009563430439820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101255977836047083.post-66130255504139308712015-11-12T04:45:00.003-08:002017-04-24T05:49:57.113-07:00'Modernity and the Planes of Historicity' by Reinhart Koselleck (1981).
A Selection from Koselleck's essay Modernity and the Planes of Historicity, 1981.
'Modernity and the Planes of Historicity' first appeared in a collection of essays with the title Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time published in German in 1979 (although the author claims that the essays were written in the 60's and 70's) under the section 'On the Relation of Past and Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087009563430439820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101255977836047083.post-38702435651110003632015-09-16T06:10:00.001-07:002015-10-31T04:28:09.402-07:00'Theses on the Philosophy of History' by Walter Benjamin (1940)
A selection from Walter Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History, 1940.[Incomplete]
A Klee painting named Angelus Novus [editors note: see below] shows an angel looking as though he
is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His
eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how
one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087009563430439820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101255977836047083.post-31966124026780542712015-09-16T06:05:00.001-07:002015-12-01T05:00:31.808-08:00'The Arcades Project' by Walter Benjamin (1927-1940)
"To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives." Walter Benjamin.
Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin died while fleeing the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Project (in German, Das Passagen-Werk) is a monumental ruin, meticulously constructed over the course of thirteen years—“the theater,” as Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087009563430439820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101255977836047083.post-62964627690224724152015-09-06T06:18:00.001-07:002015-09-14T18:24:51.311-07:00'The Prophet' by Kahlil Gibran (1923)
A selection from Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, 1923.
Kahlil Gibran came from Bsharri, a small town in what was then the Ottoman Empire but which is now part of Lebanon, and which is home to the last vestiges of the Forest of the Cedars of Lebanon which were used by the Egyptians, Phoneticians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, and others for ship building. Gibran moved to the U.S as a young Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087009563430439820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101255977836047083.post-42854534954940261832015-08-29T08:01:00.002-07:002015-11-22T04:33:31.471-08:00'The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster' by Norman Mailer (1957)
A selection from Norman Mailer's The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster, 1957.
"...it is tempting to describe the hipster in psychiatric terms as
infantile, but the style of his infantilism is a sign of the times, he
does not try to enforce his will on others, Napoleon-fashion, but
contents himself with a magical omnipotence never disproved because
never Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087009563430439820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101255977836047083.post-3610545636793960832015-08-28T07:54:00.000-07:002015-09-16T06:11:10.435-07:00'Sanity, Madness and the Family' by R.D. Laing and A. Esterson (1964)
[Forthcoming]Preface to Second EditionIntroductionEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087009563430439820noreply@blogger.com