All winter I’ve been working on a series of paintings with the working title “The Art Disagreeableness”. It’s (unpleasantly?) personal. It’s an ongoing project with the goal of transgressing my own proneness to making nice …, my inclination to believe my task in life is to please the world around me. Yesterday I sensed a…
Tag: Carl Gustav Jung
A work of art has its own specific psychology
“The artist” says Carl Jung “is not a person endowed with free will who seeks her own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through her”. I’ve been drawing a lot lately. It’s a bit disturbing, as I had promised myself to make a series of new paintings this spring. I do…
Going deeper
FOURTH POST ON THOMAS MOORE’S CARE OF THE SOUL: Jung equates the unconscious with the soul, and so when we try to live fully consciously in an intellectually predictable world, protected from all mysteries and comfortable with conformity, we lose our everyday opportunities for the soulful life. The intellect wants to know; the soul likes…
The Call to Create
Spending my Sunday morning in the company of James Hollis — ON HEARING (AND ANSWERING) THE CALL TO CREATE According to Hollis: So much of the self-help genre prattles on about “happiness.” “Thirty Days to this or That…”. “Five Easy Steps to…”. You fill in the blanks. But this Pablum does not feed the soul,…
It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards
Today I will let the concept of synchronicity crash into my ongoing speculations on how to talk about art in a way that is meaningful to a greater audience. Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events as meaningfully related, whereas they are unlikely to be causally related. The concept of synchronicity was first described by Carl Gustav Jung. Jung coined the word to…
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