Category / Semantic Explorations
Introtecture | Interpretarium
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Do Archetypes Individuate?
Do Archetypes Individuate? Tolkien says that they do – Gandalf the Gray becomes Gandalf the White (Archetype of the Wise Old Man). Lady Galadriel with the refusal of the ring passes the test. Vladeta Jerotic, Patriarch Pavle and Swedenborg believe the same. Probably many others. With Jung, however, they are complete. Jung does not explicate…
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Shadow and Tolkien
“If God is absolute, then he is complete. If he is complete, then he is finite. If he is finite, then he is limited. If he is limited, he is not Infinite.” The trap of a visual syllogism. Infinity is absolute and ultimate finiteness. Absolute finiteness includes Infinity. God is both a thesis and an…
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Anima and Leonardo
With a smart man, there must be a hierarchy in terms of the intensity of curiosity. Not all topics are equally interesting. The truer the topic, the more interesting. There is a Necessity that leads a smart man to these topics. When I talk about a smart man I’m not talking about the exterior. One…
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Looking at the whole
Carl Jaspers says that genius sees the whole, not the particular. Napoleon says “I do not want the world in its parts, I want it in its entirety.” Weininger says “The highest level of individualism is the highest level of universality.” Christ in the Gnostic Gospels says “I come from the undivided.” Only in understanding…
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Spirit of the Story
People often (today) overlook the importance of a simple story. The stories we see described in Fairy Tales. Archetypal stories. Our guess is that’s because the story is not an adequate argument. Whoever invokes on “some kind of story” automatically loses credibility. Today’s intellectuals cannot read great works “merely as stories”, but their readings and…
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First Collective Work Of Art
“One on one, even ten on ten, we are embarrassingly similar to chimpanzees. Significant differences begin to appear only when we cross the threshold of 150 individuals, and when we reach 1,000–2,000 individuals, the differences are astounding.” (Y. N. Harari, Sapiens). The greatest strength of humankind is not within an (or even the) individual but…
