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This text is reminiscent of Thucydides or Herodotus

“Not Orpheus himself, or lot’s wife paid much more dearly for a backward glance”

Awesome line I love it

When he was assuring his friend the screeching was penguins I was like “yeah right” but it was 😭

These peoples aversion to turning back is sickening they had soooo many chances

Really interesting learning about the political situation of renaissance Italy… wasn’t aware of the role of the Spanish and French during this time.

Ok

So star creature came from space and built a crazy society and were responsible for life on earth

Then the spawn of Cthulhu came and waged a war on them and the treaty left the star creature the oceans and the spawn of Cthulhu a continent which sank into the see and killed? Him?

Then the star creatures were chilling until space fungi crab? Came down and waged another war? Which led to a new treaty?

Translators note finished

God I was having flashbacks to my linguistics courses reading this… languages are not my forte I’m so glad the translating has been done for me lmao

In some of the examples I have to admit I preferred the previous translations used as examples to be honest…

You get more of a sense of Machiavellis character and perception from reading the intro and translators note though

Wasn’t expecting a WHOLE CITY DAMN

Now I wanna know more about the cult of Cthulhu and the other eldritch stuff they reference

Just read the introduction

Had no clue how much history was in this book… honestly was expecting a type of historical fiction that was a bit further removed but learning about the life of the author really puts it into perspective.

Also reading about the books place in history and how different figures and groups championed or denigrated it is fascinating.

I’m excited to start

Really enjoyed the analysis of Henry in a more in depth format as opposed to the quick examples littered throughout the book up until this time.

I find it curious that this was the case they chose to represent a fruitful analysis…

End of chapter 4

I can only imagine how horrified Jung and his associates would be by the rise of AI art. Although I suppose ai is only a mirror that shows us our own problems and allows us to direct our dissatisfaction towards an unfeeling host.

Some really interesting perspectives by artists were referred to in this chapter. Would be interested in checking the artists out in more detail.

The discussion of symbolism in the visual arts has been far more rewarding than I originally thought it would be.

The concept of no artist no matter his genius being able to transcend the capability of his era’s capacity for expression is fascinating.

This section has also opened up a new way of viewing art movements as a representation of humanity’s collective mental state and the evolution of consciousness

Found the discussion of what renaissance meant for human thought and its implications on man from then onwards super insightful. This event being labelled as the splitting point between conscious thought and symbolic, spiritual attainment.

Super keen to learn more about jungs idea of synchronicity

Franz’s discussion of the symbols that arise within the individual and the reluctance of modern religion to accept the events as legitimate was fascinating.

Loved the mention of my namesake “black elk”

The discussion of our active ability to manipulate the unconscious merits further discussion as were exposed to so many attempts to alter our views

The self symbols of totality

Loved the aspects of comparative culture and religion in the segment.

Also noticed that the four colours that Adam was supposedly created from in the four corners of the world coincide with the four fundamental colours of Sioux religion (red white black yellow) representing N, S, E and W which I learn from a medicine mans biography.

The discussion of the self is fascinating

“I found that my imagination… did not extend to the things now before me and thus could give me no answers”

Excited for vol 2!

Awesome depiction of the contents of the cave you can tell lovecraft did his homework on ancient biology and evolution…

The double page spreads are super cool and the mountain drawings are a highlight.

The weird star headed creatures are interesting too I wonder what will become of them.

Cool art

I like how this story makes the Antarctic seem mysterious as it must have once been. Now all that comes to mind (similarly to cooks idea of the continent) is that it contains nothing but ice.

The anima and the animus

Finally getting to the crux of jungs vision of human psychology. The descriptions of these aspects of men and women’s inner being are interesting. There are certain negative anima qualities I can see within myself as a man from reading these pages.

So far from reading this I feel like the concept deserves greater attention and I’m willing to read about it in depth in other books.

Love M. L. Von Franz’s style of writing.

Her explanations of the unconscious are clear and enjoyable.

Franz’ description of how children forget events that are impressive to adults and remember seemingly mundane scenes from childhood as a symbolic representation of key aspects of their psyche is super interesting.

Jim Morison’s run in with the Indians on dawns highway comes to mind.
Memories of my own to

I was a little bit uninterested in chapter two because I feel like the concept can not be sufficiently expressed in a beginner friendly format and could’ve been left out since it could not be done properly.

Chapter 3, however, has brought me right back into it Marie Louise Von franze communicates the concept clearly and succinctly with meaningful examples that enable understanding. The concept itself is profound.

End of chapter 2

The discussion of initiation was rewarding and the function of these rites can be fruitfully understood from a jungian perspective.
The aspects of comparative religion were fascinating like how Orpheus and Christ were shown as parallels in a way. Two versions of the same principle.
I was lost on a few of the examples of the ancient myths on current cases of dreams which suffer from little clarity

Wowwwwww

End of chapter 1 by Jung

As someone who is non religious I guess I’d most closely relate with the “rationalists” as jung describes them but I’ve never before in my life seen the position so swiftly and convincingly dismantled in the same breath as the dismantling of institutionalised religion.

Jungs position of modern man’s enormous achievements as coming at a great cost is felt in our lives

Jung chapter 1: the archetype in dream symbolism

“The very word invent is derived from the Latin invenire and means to find”

Jungs assertion is that just as how an evolutionary biologist can identify how our body and organs developed over a period of eons, that our brain itself is similar and harbours innate features from our evolutionary past.
I’m so impressed, the role of myth to this end is inspired

Chap 1 Jung: The problem of types

Jungs comments about how psychology may be the only “science” where one’s personality in inextricable from the practice of his field are very astute. His call for people to understand themselves as a matter of utmost important are logical. His emphasis on the individuality of each person being integral to the meaning of their dreams is reasonable.

Awesome

I actually can’t with room 101

WHAT
THE
F*CK

from this point I’ve abandoned any hope of attacking this book intellectually I’m so profoundly disconcerted by what I’m reading I can do nothing but sit in horror as the plot unfolds in front of me

Winston conflating intelligence with sanity being his undoing is poetic…

The fact O’brien can be so smart and yet so willing to engage in the lunacy of the party is what is truly frightening

Heavy stuff…

The ministry of love being bright all the time is genius

I understand the criticisms of this work simply being an essay more now but is such a good one how can you not enjoy it. Obriens character coming into focus has been enjoyable and has progressed the plot nicely.

Chapter “war is peace” was entertaining the true achievement of 1984 is world building. More than the characters or plot it is the setting that’s ingenious.

Love the role of education in 1984 too