Wednesday, March 12, 2008
11.03.2008
Interpretation by dali48
I remember once at 3 a.m. I started to sneak away from the cradle with the sleeping child, she opened her eyes and said: "Daddy, say something funny!" (W. Golding, Banquet Sp. 1983)
In many novels Golding has revealed the dark sides of the human heart when isolated individuals or small groups are pushed into extreme situations. His 23 works are marked by exploration of the "darkness of the human heart", deep spiritual and ethical questions... (W. Golding, P.A.C.)
After his demobilization in 1945 Golding returned to writing and teaching and had a grim view of European civilization. Later recalling his war experiences he remarked: "Man produces evil as a bee produces honey!" ... Ironically, the adult world is devastated by nuclear war, and the protagonist imagines his survival and struggle against the sea and the cold! ... The story (The Double Tongue, 1995) is set in ancient Greece and depicts the life of the last Delphic oracle, the Pythia, who witnesses the rise of Roman power and the decline of Hellenistic culture! ... "They cried for their mothers much less often than one might have expected; they were very brown and dirty." (from Lord of the Flies) ... Golding's view is pessimistic: human nature is inherently corrupt and evil! Thus, the ideals of progress and education of the 19th century are based on false premises... (W. Golding, Pegasus Author's Calendar)
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
21.05.2000
Interpretation by dali48
But that's how it is for all of us: Anyone who has not loved, has been ill, has lost a wife, husband or child through death, has been persecuted, driven away, imprisoned, has been cheated on or abandoned by a spouse, is unable to empathize, to sympathize, to suffer with! Today, 24, smiling resignedly, I leave the world to "God" as it is. So serenity? Doesn't the word come from Christian mysticism? ... This, I now know, means, in depth psychology, reconciliation with the "shadow" of my psyche. I have become free of the negative ties to people who have hurt me or been guilty towards me. The instincts that were awakened by this hardly exist anymore; so I don't need to suppress them any more... Also, according to C.G. Jung, "the gigantic catastrophes that threaten us are not elementary events of a physical or biological nature, but psychological events." The psychological is a great power that overcomes all the powers of the earth many times over. Only the recognition of this fact, the common "mea culpa", would lead us out of the insane circle of mutual accusations, balancing and scapegoat projections and set the beginning of self-healing: the overcoming of the threat of death from psychological causes. Fear of God is in place in the face of the overwhelming power of the psychological... Death makes us mute insofar as it leads to the experience of our own insignificance. In this silencing, earthly strife suffocates! ... The cancer of irreconcilability is also growing in political history. That is why it has become so distant to me, alien, disgusting, sickly. Exitus, cause: lack of medical experience and/or medical impotence! ... Every illness causes a neurosis. Every neurosis demoralizes ... Mental suffering brings all the deep layers (see phylo- and ontogenetic subconscious etc. - d.48) of the human being "upwards", pushes them into the question of meaning ("It" becomes "I"). I have learned to leave what is inexplicable to humans, what remains a mystery to them, as it is! ... Physical ailments are tackled more actively, not so much the (psychological) suffering of humans. Suffering means introversion, psychological descent into hell, journey to Hades, twilight of the gods: revaluation of all values ... Because it is not the most active who really helps, as in pain, which causes loud cries, but the passive listener! Only the ability to survive such change processes, to adapt, is life, allows to survive at all! What is not meant, one should suffer. Anyone who fights against his suffering denies its meaning of change. Instead of change, repression follows, which easily leads to the catastrophe of self-abandonment. Suffering, in contrast to pain, is something silent, personal, secret. Envy, resentment, ignorance, slander and hybrid self-overestimation are everywhere. Doctors, homeopaths, healers, etc. show themselves morally naked - without being ashamed in front of the helpless patient. One does not only consume food and drink, one also needs the sexual partner and throws him away in turn like an empty tin can... Nothing becomes stale as quickly as pleasure, as cheap pleasure: Disco, arcade, travel agency, sports arena, TV studio, background music, motorized speeding, sex tourism, homosexuality, perversity, sodomy, drug consumption, psychotropic drugs etc. We live "like in ancient Rome." We live the life of a society in decline. It is the imagination that moves our world... (W. Trautmann)
Carl Gustav Jung, meist kurz C. G. Jung, war ein Schweizer Psychiater und 1913 der Begründer der analytischen Psychologie. Anhänger dieser Richtung werden Jungianer genannt. Wikipedia
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