Man and Time: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks

by Mircea Eliade, C.G. Jung, Erich Neumann

ERICH NEUMANN - Art and Time
HENRI-CHARLES PUECH - Gnosis and Time
GILLES QUISPEL - Time and History in Patristic Christianity
Louis MASSIGNON - Time in Islamic Thought
HENRY CORBIN - Cyclical Time in Mazdaism and Ismailism
MIRCEA ELIADE - Time and Eternity in Indian Thought
C.G. JUNG - On Synchronicity
HELLMUT WILHELM - The Concept of Time in the Book of Changes
HELMUTH PLESSNER - On the Relation of Time to Death
MAX KNOLL - Transformations of Science in Our Age
ADOLF PORTMANN - Time in the Life of the Organism
G. VAN DER LEEUW - Primordial Time and Final Time

Genres: Philosophy, Religion, Nonfiction, Psychology

384 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 1954

About the author

Romanian-born historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, professor at the University of Chicago, and one of the pre-eminent interpreters of world religion in the last century. Eliade was an intensely prolific author of fiction and non-fiction alike, publishing over 1,300 pieces over 60 years. He earned international fame with LE MYTHE DE L'ÉTERNAL RETOUR (1949, The Myth of the Eternal Return), an interpretation of religious symbols and imagery. Eliade was much interested in the world of the unconscious. The central theme in his novels was erotic love.

Reviews

[Adriana Scarpin · Rating 3 out of 5]

O problema desse livro é o fato do primeiro texto ser o do Erich Neumann e, como total BAMF que era, exalou já no inicio deixando os demais textos não tão interessantes.


As our daytime world is devoured by the Terrible Mother, torn to pieces in the bloody rituals that are our wars, demonic, magical, and elemental irrationality invades us. The stream of the libido flows inward, from the crumbling canon into the unconscious, and activates its latent images of past and future.


I must quote from Dr. Faustus, with which the tragedy ends: "Often he talked of eternal grace, the poor man, and I don't know if it will be enough. But an understanding heart, believe me, is enough for everything."
Let us understand these words correctly. They are not proud or arrogant; on the contrary they are desperately modest. We really do not know any longer whether grace is enough, precisely because we are as we are and are beginning to see ourselves as we are. But at a time of overwhelming crisis, the questionable nature of grace, or rather our knowledge that we are unworthy of grace, compels us to understand and love mankind, the fallible mankind that we ourselves are. Behind this abysmal crisis, the archetype of the Eternal Feminine as earth and as Sophia would seem to be discernible; it is no accident that these words are spoken by Frau Schweigestill, the mother. That is to say, it is precisely in chaos, in hell, that the New makes its appearance. Did not Kwanyin descend into hell rather than spend her time with the serene music makers in heaven?

Art and Time - Erich Neumann

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