Faust and C.G. Jung – What holds the world together at its core

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fallenAngel's avatarstOttilien

Goethe and C.G. Jung

“Faust I”, the Germans’ favorite drama is about a scholar who wants the impossible, who wants to know what keeps the world together at heart. Goethe’s Faust failed on this worldly question, which ultimately leads either straight to Augustine’s heaven or Dante’s hell. Therfore Faust needed and accepted diabolical assistance. But what keeps the world together is also a fundamental question of today’s particle physics. The essay approaches Faust’s complex question from philosophy,  depth psychology, religion and science.

Faust I
To enlighten me more,
What Holds the world together at its innermost core
All this potency and seed I shall see,
And stop peddling in words that mean nothing to me.
Daß ich erkenne, was die Welt
Im Innersten zusammenhält,
Schau alle Wirkenskraft und Samen,
Und tu nicht mehr in Worten kramen.

Many suggestions and thoughts derived from a monastery-retreat with that title, held by a particle physicist…

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Faust and C.G. Jung – What holds the world together at its core

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What does Shakespeare Mean?

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Niall O'Donnell's avatarEnglish-Language Thoughts

It’s funny. I’ve thought a lot about what words mean, particularly names. Even more particularly, names which are clearly interesting or unusual. And I’ve thought a lot about William Shakespeare. But I’ve never thought about his surname before.

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Pagan roots of Easter

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cav12's avatarLuciana Cavallaro

For those who have been following my blog know I am historian with a specialist interest and knowledge in ancient history. So, the content of this article may not come to you as a surprise. As today is Good Friday, I thought it would be an opportunity to write about the origins of this Holy event beginning with resurrection.

The Return of Persephone, c.1891 (oil on canvas) by Leighton, Frederic (1830-96); 203×152 cm; Leeds Museums and Galleries (City Art Gallery) U.K.; English, out of copyright

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Become Slave of Eternal Life

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christiannamony's avatarTrust and Believe in the Unseen

Never become slaves of this world, no matter how great or perfect you think your life is right now or perhaps later. Become slaves of the Lord, because the benefits that you’ll reap leads you to holiness, and the results of it all is eternal life.

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Dreams of Desire 68 (Les Demoiselles d’Avignon)

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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon-Picasso 1907 Les Demoiselles d’Avignon-Picasso 1907

The first truly Modernist painting (though change had been in the air for some time), the radical break constituted by Pablo Picasso 1907’s study of a Barcelona brothel, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, led to Cubism and sharply divided critics.

Never before or after did Picasso spend so long on one painting as Les Demoiselles, drawing hundreds of preparatory sketches over a period of nine months. The innovation doesn’t lie with the content; the courtesan had long been a covert subject of Western Art before being explicitly identified as a prostitute by Edouard Manet’s Olympia, to becoming somewhat of a Bohemian cliche by the time of  Toulouse-Lautrec in the 1890’s. Picasso’s claim to blazing, revolutionary originality lie in the form. First of all he throws  five hundred years of accepted practise out of the window by abolishing perspective, then instead of the traditional curves we…

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George Kotsonis (1940, Cypriot)

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CantervilleGhost's avatarLA CONCHIGLIA DI VENERE

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On The Beach

Mediterranean Light

Nude

Summer Smile

In Front Of The Sea

Nude

At The Beach

Twins

Danae

Sleeping Woman

Reclined Nude With Hat

Sitting Nude

Pose

Nude With Yellow Shirt

Nude With White Shirt

Girl With White Shirt

Nude

Nude With White Hat

Nude

Filareskia

Nude In Blue

Nude

Nude

Nude

Nude

Relaxation

Summer Melody

Summer Song – Music

Amphitrite

Leda And The Swan

Lovers With A White Horse

Nymph With Centaur

Mythical Composition

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