Psychology Is Ultimately Mythology, The Study Of

It's Very Hard In Our Adversarial Society To Find A Third View. Take Journalism, Where Everything Is Always Presented As One Person Against Another: "now We're Going To Hear The Opposing View." There Is Never A Third View.

Until The Culture Recognizes The Legitimacy Of Growing Down, Each Person In The Culture Struggles Blindly To Make Sense Of The Darkness That The Soul Requires To Deepen Into Life.

Beauty Has Never Been An Important Topic In The Writings Of The Major Psychologists. In Fact, For Jung, Aesthetics Is A Weak, Early Stage Of Development. He Follows The Germanic View That Ethics Is More Important Than Aesthetics, And He Draws A Stark Contrast Between The Two. Freud May Have Written About Literature A Bit, But An Aesthetic Sensitivity Is Not Part Of His Psychology.

We Must Look Back Over Our Lives And Look At Some Of The Accidents And Curiosities And Oddities And Troubles And Sicknesses And Begin To See More In Those Things Than We Saw Before. It Raises Questions, So That When Peculiar Little Accidents Happen, You Ask Whether There Is Something Else At Work In Your Life.

The Psyche Is Highly Flammable Material. So We Are Always Wrapping Things In Asbestos, Keeping Our Images And Fantasies At Arm's Length Because They Are So Full Of Love