Siguiendo con las notas personales a la lectura del cuerpo teórico de J. Hillman, de la Psicología Arquetipal, resumo y rescato como sigue “City & Soul”, de mis notas personales.
Pues bien, realmente rescato el último capítulo del libro, el análisis del Arquetipo de La Torre, que oculta, y cómo es una solución de las energías arquetípicas su caída para desmembrase en una multitud de posibilidades. Además, amplío al final los conceptos de “fantasía cartesiana-cristiana” y “similia similibus curantur”, porque yo no los conocía.
Then we realize that what psychology has had to call “projection” is simply animation;
La proyeccion es mera animacion
The soul of the thing corresponds or coalesces with ours.
El alma de la cosa coalisciona con la nuestra
This insight that psychic reality appears in the expressive form
Asi aparece en la forma expresiva esta realidad psíquica
Ficino releases psychology from the self-enclosures of Augustine, Descartes, and Kant, and their successors, often Freud and sometimes Jung.
Ficino libera la psicología de encorsetada en sí mismo, en donde la dejaron Descartes y los demas (inlcuido Freud y a veces Jung)
Of course, things are dead, said the old psychology, because they do not “experience” (feelings, memories, intentions). They may be animated by our projections, but to imagine their projecting upon us and each other their ideas and demands, to regard them as storing memories or presenting their feeling characters in their sensate qualities—this is magical thinking.
Las cosas estan muertas para la psicologia clasica – porque no experimentaban (sentimientos, memorias, intenciones….) – Si imaginamos las proyecciones sobre nosotros y otros esas ideas y demandas, presentando sus caracteres como demandas, seria pensamiento magico
Depth psychology could go only to the intra- and interpersonal in search of the interiority of soul.
La psicologia profunda solo puede ir al interior o ser inter-personas en la busqueda de la interioridad del alma.
With things returned again to soul, their psychic reality given with the anima mundi, then their interiority and depth—and depth psychology too—depend not on their experiencing themselves or on their self-motivation, but upon self-witness of another sort. An object bears witness to itself in the image it offers, and its depth lies in the complexities of this image. Its intentionality is substantive, given with its psychic reality, claiming but not requiring our witness.
Un objeto reclama atesiguarse asi mismo en la imagen que ofrece. Retorno al anima mundi. Del alma de las cosas
To call a building “catatonic” or “anorexic”
Ejemplo de llamar a un edificio “anorexico”
To call consumption “manic”
Ejemplo de llamar al consumismo, maniaco
More than the psychoanalytic nose that searches for depth of meaning and hidden connections,
Mas que significados y conexiones ocultas
…aesthetic response to the world. This response ties the individual soul immediately with the world soul;
…respuesta estética al mundo. Respuesta que ate el alma del individuo en el mundo
…the one always implicating the other.
El alma de uno implica la del otro
Any alteration in the human psyche resonates with a change in the psyche of the world.
Cualquier alteración en la psique humana resuena en la psique del mundo
The word for perception or sensation in Greek was aisthesis,
Aisthesis. Percepción sensorial para los griegos. Raíz de “estética”.
Imágen: eilogon para los griegos : es imágen , sombra o doble del cuerpo. Fantasma.
For Marsilio Ficino, too, the spirit in the heart received and transmitted the impression of the senses. The heart’s function was aesthetic.
Funcion estetica del corazon para los antiguos geiegos y M. Ficino
To sense penetratingly we must imagine, and to imagine accurately we must sense.
Para sentir penetrantemente debemos imaginar, y para imaginar agudamente debemos sentir
The anima mundi is simply not perceived if the organ of this perception remains unconscious
No se percibe el anima mundi si el corazon sigue inconciente
Awakening the imagining, sensing heart would move psychology itself from mental reflection toward cordial reflex.
Implicaria pasar de la reflexion mental hacia la cordial (recordar, re-cordis)
The move to the heart is already a move of poiesis: metaphorical, psychological.
Moverse al corazón yá es un movimiento de poieses: metafórico , psicológico. (poiesis : producir, traer algo [a la conciencia])
…there is also Aphrodite who was called the world soul in Ficino’s translation of Plotinus and to whom Ficino awards the sensate world.
Afrodita, el alma del mundo para M.Ficino en su traducción de Plotino, y para quien le atribuye el mundo sensorial.
psychology must already, as did Psyche in Apuleius’s tale, stand in the temple of Aphrodite, recognizing that each thing smiles, has allure, and calls forth aisthesis.
La psicologia debe pararse en el templo de Afrodita, como hizo Psiqué en la historia de Apuleyo , reconociendo que cada cosa sonríe, tiene belleza y provoca percepción [aisthesis]
This has been impossible so long as psychology had its home in the alien “north” where cosmology was absorbed by ontology and metaphysics, conceptual systems without aesthetic images, without myths and faces of the gods, without pathologized images—an alienation that distorted
Una psicologia alienada desde el “norte”, donde la cosmología fué aborvida por la ontología y metafísica, sistemas conceptuales sin imágenes perceptuales…. sin mitos ni rostros de dioses, sin imagenes patologizadas…
and because of this resurrecting ghost in matter we are aware at last again of the anima mundi.
Anima mundi, a raiz de quela materia vuelve a verse animada
Our ecological fears announce that things are where the soul now claims psychological attention.
Las.cosas estan donde el alma reclama atencion psicologica
We will recognize health of soul by its aesthetic response in which judgment always inheres,
Reconoxer la salud del alma en su aprecicacion de patrones estéticos
And our questions will be addressed to what things are, and where, and who, and in which precise way they are as they are, rather than why, how come, and what for.
Cambiar las preguntas por que , quien, donde y cual. En lugar de las.clasicas. Porque , como y para que.
Neoplatonic understanding, beauty is simply manifestation, the display of phenomena, the appearance of the anima mundi;
Belleza es la manifestacion del anima mundi.
Thus, what I do mean by aesthetic response is closer to an animal sense of the world—a nose for the displayed intelligibility of things, their sound, smell, shape, speaking to and through our heart’s
Respuesta estetica es como un sentido animal , percibir las.cosas por los sentidos, y como respondemos a eso.
Thing-consciousness could extend the notion of self-consciousness from the constrictions of subjectivism.
Extension de la autoconciencia por la extensión de la.conccencia de las.cosas.
His animal sense has been trained to notice only one set of proprioceptions to the exclusion of the psychic reality of the chair. A cat knows better.
Sentidos animales a la propiocepcion.
Notitia refers to that capacity to form true notions of things from attentive noticing.
Notitia : la capacidad de anoticiarse de las cosas.
It is the full acquaintance on which knowledge depends.
Es lo cconocido sobre lo que depende el conocimiento
In depth psychology, notitia has been limited by our subjective view of psychic reality so that attention is refined mainly in regard to subjective states.
En psicologia profunda , es solo subjetivo el nivel de atencion.
incorporating along the way the poetic methods of Imagism, Concretism, Objectivism, Projective
Metodos poeticos : imaginal, proyeccion del verso, concretismo
that unspoken religious fervor in psychotherapy would shift its focus from saving the soul in the personal patient to saving the soul of the world,
El fervor cambiaria de salvar el ama individial al alma del mundo
the restoration of the world rather than the resurrection of man, the celebration of creation before the adoration of creativity in the individual.
La restauraciom del mundo en lugar de la resurecciom del hombre
a therapy of the physical world’s psychic reality.
Una terapia de la realidad fisca del mundo
would return value from the subject to the thing,
Devolvera el valor del tema/sujeto a la cosa
This because, as William James saw, intimacy occurs when we live in a world of particular, concrete events, noticeable for what he called their “eachness.”
La intimidad definida.cuando sucede en eventos concretos particulares, unicos.
The aesthetic response is never a fuzzy pantheism, a generalized adoration of nature or even of the city.
La respuesta estetica no es panteismo ni adoracion de la.naturaleza
Rather it is that joyful scrutiny of detail, that intimacy of each with each such as lovers knows.
Mas bien el escrutinio con dicha de los.detalles de cada.uno
individuation of matter.
Es la individuacion de la materia
It has been up to us to keep the world aglow.
Ha sido de nuestro interes mantener el mundo encendido
depersonalization and derealization,
Despersonalizacion y desrealizacion . Sintomas
Of course therapy must focus on relations rather than on contents,
Por.supuesto la.psicoterapia se.basa en relaciones , no contenido
when each thing, each event presents itself again as a psychic reality—
Cada evento como realidad psiquica
Egypt. There, l’objet parlant was common at hand.
El objeto parlante era tipico en Egipto
Cartesian-Christian fantasy,
Fantasia cristiana-cartesiana
We are anesthetized as well by the subjectivism of psychotherapy, as if the end-of-the-world were an “inner problem.”
Anesteziados por el subjetivismo de la psicoterapia
Can we now see what Blake always knew: the apocalypse that kills the soul of the world is not at the end of time, not coming, but apocalypse now and Newton and Locke, Descartes and Kant are its Horsemen.
Lo que Blake sabia : el.apocalipsis es.hoy y los.jinetes son Descartes, Locke y Kant
since Christ said his Kingdom is not of this world
Desde que Cristo.dijo que su reino.no era de este.mundo
polytheistic animation of the material world was cursed into demonism and heresy,
El animismo politeista fue.considerado demoniaco
The anima mundi stirs our hearts to respond:
El anima mundi nos compele a responder
Anima mundi reappears in further guises as “the collective unconscious” in Jung,
Reaparece wn wl.inconciente colectivo de Jung
aisthesis
Aisthesis antes que Logos
what and where and who before why.
Que donde y quien antes de por que.
The theory of the instincts is, as it were, our mythology. The instincts are mythical beings, superb in their indefiniteness. —Sigmund Freud ()
Los instintos son seres miticos. S.Freud
temenos,
Temenos : el griego “cortar” o “separar” , es un recinto sagrado, protegido. Espacio delimitado dedicado a una divinidad.
For that we must go where the soul is sick and where the unconscious most darkly and thickly reigns: the polis.
Donde el inconciente colectivo reina : la polis.
very subtle interiorized individuals, and very unconscious citizens.
Muy concientes del interior pero no como ciudadanos (politica)
if the definition of psychopathology resides in the culture, then psyche itself may be defined to reside there as well.
Si la definicion de psicopatologia cae en la cultura, lo propia le cae a psique.
res extensa.
Res extensa (Descartes) : materia muerta
Plato and Plotinus and Ficino, and the Romantics for whom the great god Pan was never dead, and especially Spinoza whose god and world were one substance, that
Platon. Plotino. Ficino. Spinoza. Por oposicion a Descartes. Siempre identificaron al dios Pan.
paper, “The Libido Theory,”
Teoria de la libido ; Freud refuta a Jung en su inconciente colectivo
Trotter’s pronouncement that man is a herd animal and assert that he is rather a horde animal, an individual creature in a horde led by a chief.”
El pronuncia.iento de Trotter : un individuo en una manada conducidos por.un jefe
“object libido.” This, as you all recall, is the libido that flows out to objects and absorbs libido back from objects.
Libido del objeto : la libido que fluye al objeto y vuelve de el.
“the pathogenic process as witnessed in dementia praecox is the withdrawal of the libido from objects.”
…que la demencia precoz es la extraccion de libido de los objetos
the world soul, Sophia, as the Gnostics and alchemists said, laments.
El alma del mundo, Sofia, se lamenta, al decir gnostico
price we continue to pay for the death of Pan and the pagan world soul.
La depresion es el precio que pagamos por la muerte del dios Pan
It is a view of human nature reaching its apogee in the Western nineteenth century, the political context of Freud’s time and place.
El punto de vista del individualismo de fin dwl siglo XIX , de Freud
further the delusion of a transcendental subject—a subject transcendent to community, requiring a guarantor for my isolated subjectivity,
La ilusion de um ser transcendente, …
i.e., a transcendent original self or god.
Ejemplo, un ser trascendente o dios
neurotic fiction or an omnipotence fantasy
Es ficcion neurotica o fantasia omnipotente
“Man is by nature a political animal” (anthropos phusei politikon zoon).
Aristoteles : el hombre es un animal politico
the Greek demos (Dionysus is said to have been the favorite divinity of the demos).
Demos : La población, la gente ordinaria, el conjunto de los ciudadanos.
What would it be like were we to imagine the patient as citizen?
El paciente como ciudadano
a case supervision within the polis of Athene, rather than under the tutelage of Oedipus and his heuriskein or figuring out, his blind drive to “know thyself,” gnothi seauton.
Gnothi seauton : conócete a tí mismo
and especially that intensely reflective substantive mythologem or bewitching god-term, Self.
Mitologema sustantivo llamado si-mismo…
it assumes itself as carrier of reflexive consciousness—which is of course its primary meaning.
Se asume como portador de.conciencia reflexiva
Suppose we were to recognize, see through, bracket out and then discard these favorite notions of Self. One reason for the discard being that none of these favorite notions require external relations; no necessity for an outer, an other, even an echo, They can be imagined wholly for themselves,
La nocion del si-mismo imaginada siempre desde adentro
know oneself wholly by and with oneself, in the gaze of self-reflective inspectio,
Reflectio : uno solo puede conocerse por si mismo
political—Self as the interiorization of community.
En cambio, el si-mismo como interiorizacion de lo comunitario
course—am I on track or off, am I repressing, am I centered?—to the actual community of one’s actual life.
Comparacion contra la comunidad vigente
Then the pursuit of insight necessitates an objective correlative, the place where insight arises, the community,
La búsqueda de vision interna necesita de un objeto correlativo : la comunidad
Alfred Adler’s Gemeinschaftsgefühl, a social feeling that fictionalizes many goals, many literal political activities, as retorts for the feeling, where object libido can be intensified, differentiated, manifested.
Lo que propone Adler.: un sentimiento social de objetivos donde la libido del objeto puede ser manifestada
Gemeinschaftsgefühl.
…Gemeimshaft… : sentimiento de comunidad
If Self and its draw toward reflective interiority refers not to an immanent soul spark of a transcendent god, or to a germ, seed, truth, center, or core of will power, but rather is constituted of communal contingencies, then the draw toward interiority must at the same time be a draw toward exteriority, toward the contingencies of the actual ecological field—
…el poder de la.voluntad dirigido a lo exterior (interior)…
where I am placed, with whom I am, what is happening with my animals, my food, my furniture and what the toaster, the newspaper, and the refrigerator’s purr do in the field I am in.
… que es donde estoy parado.
To find myself I must turn to them, visibles and invisibles.
Para encontrarme , debo.volver a ello, visibles e invisibles.
The environment is now the mirror and insight is now outrage.
El entorno es el espejo.y la vista hacia afuera.
Instead, an emotion may be imagined as a “divine influx” as William Blake said, “afforded” by the world in J. J. Gibson’s sense, as “affecting presences” as Robert Armstrong called them, revealing “importance” in Whitehead’s sense, carried by objects, scenes, and situations as their “physiognomic character” in the manner of classic Gestalt psychology.
Las emociones siguen pero reflwjadas por lo exferior a la manerade la Gestalt.
An emotion now becomes a field of signification and value, affecting me to move out, ex movere, of self-enclosure.
La emociom provoca ex movere
mourning
Duelo
rage
Enojo furioso
For patient to become citizen, analytical psychotherapy can hardly do more at first than return to the world the emotions which call the patient to the world.
… Devolver al mundo las emociones…
For the world calls to the libido from the face of every object.
Llama a la libido por la cara dw los objetos
Desire imagines libidinal objects other than analytical hours, but the schedule does not allow it,
El dese imagina ojetos libidinals, no rutinas horarias de agenda
am bound over to an objectification, which is what the object libido desires.
Atado a la objetificacion , que es lo que la libido del objeto desea.
remain unfulfilled and the object libido compromised when the objects are not the things of an animated world, but are its substitute: alcohol, drugs, tobacco, love object, shopping for bargains, schedule.
Pero el objeto oscuro del deseo no es satisfecho por estos substitutos.
we know from Freud that every symptom has its telos.
Freud : cada sintoma es un telos : fin en si mismo
erotic compulsion, narcolepsy, and schedule addiction—
Sintomas : compulson erotica, narcolepsia, adiccion a la agenda.
clinically disguised as “projection” and “acting out.”
…clínicamente disfrazados como proyección
individuality: the collective, the herd instinct, the primal horde, that throng and flood of the polls and the call of the agora.
El llamado del agora: instinto, horda.. Lo colectivo.
Then, no longer would our motto be Apollonic and Oedipal, “know thyself”;
Entonces no puede ser apolonico ni edpico.
“I party, I am of a party, and therefore I am.”
frase : soy parte , soy de la parte, soy.
“the incorporation of grandiose object images as a defense against anxiety and guilt”
La incorporacion de uma imagen objeto grandiosa como defensa a la culpa y narcisismo
unus mundus,
Unus mundus
Freud’s paper “On Narcissism” states that both introspection and conscience or “being watched” derive from and serve narcissism.
Freud , sobre el narcisismo.
upon that central obsession of analysis today, transference.
Transferencia : la obsesion central de analisis hoy
Transference habitually deflects object libido, that is, love for anything outside analysis, into a narcissistic reflection upon analysis.
Deflexiona la libido de objetos externos hacia si mismp
and the mirror no longer reflects the world, only the walking companions.
El espejo no refleja el mundo: solo la.compañia
staying in love with itself.
enamorado de si mismo
psychoanalysis, not in your or my personal childhoods, but in its own cultural childhood. This
narcissism of contemporary analysis within a much wider narcissism: the Romantic movement.
el narcisismo psicoanalitico se funda en el Romanticismo del.sigo XIX
In the patient there takes place such idealized events as a hieros gamos,
hieros gamos : matrimonio sagrado, boda sagrada
Synchronicities outside of causal laws, transcendent functions, integration of the shadow and the realization of the Self on whom the future of civilization depends.
fundamentos jungianos de los cuales se pretende que la civilizacion dependa
For “object libido” is but a psychoanalytic name for the drive which loves the world, the erotic desire for anima mundi, for soul in the world.
la libido del objeto es el deseo por el anima mundi
Then you will find out the use of the world.”
frase de john keats sobre para que sirve el mundo
Narcissism again. My soul, your soul—not its soul.
narcisismo de vuelta : mi alma, tu alma, en lugar de su alma.
ensouling the world was a crucial part of their program.
ponerle alma al mundo : para los Romanticos
attempting to revivify the soul of the world with pantheism.
intentando revivir el alma del mundo con Panteismo
we go through the world for the sake of its soul-making, thereby our own.
obketo de lo que hacemos
we resolve problems by dissolving them into images and metaphors.
resolvemos los problemas al disolverlos en imágenes y metáforas
This wide world remains merely that, merely a place of escape or acting out, so long as the world “out the window” is imagined only in the Cartesian model as sheer res extensa, only dead matter.
res extensa : dead matter
First we notice that the garden has no central place to stand and view it
primero ; el jardin no tiene un punto central de.vista
of overview and wholeness, there is perspective and eachness.
en lugar de totalidad , tenemos perspectiva y singularidad
Second: as one strolls, each vista is seen again from a different perspective.
segundo: diferentes perspectivas
To look again is to “re-spect.”
mirar de nuevo : re-spect, remirar
Third: when the garden, rather than the dream or the symptom or the unconscious, becomes the via regia of psyche, then we are forced to think anew about the word “in.” “In” is the dominant preposition of all psychoanalysis—not with, not from, not for, but “in.”
tercero : el jardin como via regia de la psyche.
Interiority of the garden, however, is wholly present and wholly displayed.
la interioridad del.jardin siempre presente
Or, as Jung said, the psyche is not in us; we are in the psyche.
jung : la psyche no esta en nosotros.: nosotros estamos.en la psycbe.
“esse in anima”
jung : esse in anima : ser en el alma
Ecology, architecture, interior design are other modes of feeling the anima mundi.
otras formas de anima mundi
Fourth: the idea of individuality also changes,
cuarto : idea de individualidad
(and Jung said the single tree is a major symbol of the individuating Self),
jung : el arbol solitario es simbolo del si-mismo
Fifth: not only are aged trees supported with crutches and encouraged to flower—blossoming belonging therefore not only to youth—but also the garden includes dead trees.
quinto : el jardin incluye arboles muertos
Sixth: the Karesansui gardens, or Zen-inspired gardens, present mainly white sand and found stones,
sexto : jardin zen : solo arena y piedras
The garden becomes wholly metaphor, both what it is and what it is not,
el jardin como metafora de lo que es y lo que no.
The concrete koan of the rock garden transforms the mind itself into metaphor,
el koan de la roca transforma al jardin . presencia y ausencia
The garden was designed and is tended to maintain an artificiality that imitates nature.
el jardin es artificial
opus contra naturam, like alchemy.
opus contra natura
error of confusing the ideal (Eden and the Elysian fields; Horaiko, in Japanese) with the natural.
el error de confundir lo ideal con lo natural
generative artificiality that is the essence of the garden and of the psyche.
artificialidad generada en lo que es ese jardin de la psyque
“You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you.”
Tenes e derecho de permanecer callado. Todo lo que digas podria ser usado wn tu contra
But there is an even greater poison hidden in the interpretations we give our clients. Our accounts tend to be rational, causal, and conceptual. They are on a different wavelength, which creates a jamming static that breaks into silence
el veneno de la interpretacion racional
They are the universals of the imagination, the archetypal.
arquetipos universales
Our lives are already significant before we understand them, before we explain them.
nuestras vidas ya tienen signifcado las hayamos o no comprendido
The image is poetic; the interpretation, prosaic.
la imagen es poetica. la interpretacion es prosaica.
This autonomy or anarchy of the image is the source of personal expression,
la autonomia o anarquia de la imagen como fuente de expresion
The imagination is prompted to go back into itself, to watch and hear and feel, and to think further.
la imaginacion es preguntada sobre si misma (prompted)
Totalitarian states submit imagination to doctrine.
el totalitarismo somete la imaginacion a la doctrina
For we are all dedicated to the soul and its inalienable rights, attempting in our daily work to maintain a psychological perspective, the viewpoint of soul toward all things.
la perspectiva del alma sobre todo lo demas
No symbols, archeology, cultural anthropology, Eastern wisdom, Christian mysticism and theology, Latin and Greek terms, alchemical philosophy, theoretical physics—all those marvelous and sustaining fictions that hold one in Jungian psychology, all the mystical and shamanistic pretensions,
lo que la teoria jungiana contiene son todas wstas ficciones y pretensiones : grandezas miticas, pretensiones chamanicas, misticismo cristiano….
Jungians did not hear the other half of the Adlerian equation: aligning and adjusting the fictions to the social world, as if the social world were only the literal reality principle of Freud or a mere persona, just an “out there” that any neurotic would he having trouble with.
la carencia de lo.social en Jung que si estaba en Adler
“only the collective”
referido.como “lo colectivo”
As Stravinsky said, “Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength.”
stravinsky
Clean up your own neurosis and that will clean up the world.
limpia tu neurosis y eso limpiara el mundo
Yes, there is an internal struggle to master and suppress. But let us not forget the clash of powers in the psychic depths of the world soul disguised as political, natural, social, and economic.
lucha politica, social, economica, natural
For me, Adler’s psychology today leads out of the consulting room into the world soul and its suffering.
solo la psicologia de Adler sale del consultorio y va al alma del mundo
therapy of the soul of the world, the suffering of the anima mundi, as it has been called by Platonists. I refer to the deep symptoms disturbing nature, society, institutions and, consequently, our individual lives.
una terapia para el anima mundi
As the borders of psyche cannot be limited, as Heraclitus said ,00 years ago,
heraclito : los bordes de la psique no pueden limitarse : arqietipo psicoideo
Gemeinschaftsgefühl
self-actualization (Adler)
“True meaning of life depends on contribution and cooperation.”
Adler, : el verdadero significado de la vida depende dela.cooperacion y contribución
Curious that Trust and Betrayal are such bedfellows. Or maybe not so curious for the paranoid schizoid personality.
Confianza y Traicion : personalidad esquizoide.
Puer Eternus, Mother Complex, American Arrogance, White Privilege, Narcissistic Personality Structure, or Sun-Moon conjunct in Aries—
Sol-Luna en conjuncion en Aries
Jung’s ideas of an individuating Self that could give theoretical and even theological foundation to the despairs of seldomness, estrangement, and an actively-denied sensitivity.
coherencia teorica al.sentimiento.de extrañeza y no pertenencía
until unable to differentiate individuation from alienation.
incapaz.de.difefenciar individuacion de alienacion
called Self by Jung, and by many religious disciplines and philosophical traditions, also appears in Emerson’s definition of the hero.
self = heroe
the faith in heroic individualism, man alone—
la fe.en el.individualismo (asi lo.define el prostetantismo)
The first idea is from the heroic ontology of individualism,
primer idea : ontologia heroica dwl si-mismo
The second from a definition of Self as “the interiorization of community,”
segunda idea : interiorizaCion de la comunidad
A classical Freudian reply is: the still small voice of the conscience prior to all contingencies. This super-ego is derived at root from introjected parental authorities.
el super-ego deriva de autoridades parentales
A classical Jungian answer is: the voice speaks like the famous daimon of Socrates.
el si-mismo deriva del daimon de Socrates
inhibiting voice.
voz inhibitoria
centered. This is the inner truth of the hero archetype.
es la verdad interna dwl arquetipo del heroe …?
way of enacting the ethos of that group in any particular situation in the full agency of personal integrity right in the midst of external abuse.
libertad en el modo o.idwosincracia de actuar el ethos / espiritu de.comunodad.frente a.externalidades
Now I think that the context of any community makes its hero. “Makes” in the Greek term poiesis for making myth.
el contexto hace al heroe.: poiesis
This means that you find yourself by entering the crowd—which is the root meaning of the word polis—poly—flow and many.
polis : ciudad. de la raiz muchos y flujos
yet how we regard it is framed by time.
Jung’s famous work, called in English Modern Man in Search of a Soul ().
libro de jung : el hombre moderno en busca del alma ()
life can be pursued without loss of soul, and soul can be made without forfeiting the calls of life.
vivir sin perder el alma y viceversa
Finally, a resolution arrived in by means of the concept of the anima mundi, soul of the world and in the world;
anima mundi, : alma del mundo y en e mundo
primum nihil nocere
primum nihil nocere
The soul does have affinity with death apart from disease and disorder which are not death’s only messengers.
el alma tiene afinidad con la muerte
The inherent affinity of the soul with the underworld and the “other side” distinguishes the soul ontologically from any medical model that
esta afinidad ontologica la distingue del modelo de medicina… que define vida y mierte medicinalmente
that soul is private and death the concern only of the individual.
…. no sigue la linea de que el alma es privada y que la muerte es individual
Individualistic attitudes deriving from these philosophies insult the public sphere.
el indivodualismo de estas filosofias imsultan la esfera publica
Of course Jung and the French writers were down on the collective.
Jung y los existemcialistas franceses estaban en contra de lo colectivo
After all, “the collective psyche” is nothing other than the polis. It is civilization itself and not merely the crowd, the masses, the mindless mob. By forcing individual and collective into a pair of logical antagonists, the individual becomes a stranger in his or her own city, that existential condition of estrangement.
la.psique colectiva es la polis. La psiquis colectiva : la civilizacion , no la masa
If, however, “soul” refers also to an anima mundi, a world-soul, then, as alchemists like Sendivogius and Paracelsus wrote, much of the soul lies “outside” the person.
mucho del alma radica mas alla del individuo
Then, relationship between people as well as between people and things would be given inherently, no longer conceived as external connections between separated atomistic individuals enclosed within their skins.
asi las relaciones no se dan externamente sino inherentemente
that transference merely exhibits this innate
este enlace innato es lo que exhibe la transferencia
Others are entangled in your death as you are in theirs. Suicide becomes a community matter.
los muertes estan entrelazadas, entre unos y otros
strata of the psyche that we all share, call it our archetypal humanity.
humanidad arquetipal
So large is this participation that boundaries cannot be found (Heraclitus).
la participacion es tan amplia que sus limites no pueden ser alcanzados (Heraclito)
to whom does the soul belong?
pregunta antigua : a quien pertenece el alma?
self as the interiorization of community.
propuesta : si mismo como interiorizacion de la comunidad
He tied the soul ineluctably to the thanatos principle, the drive toward death, the drive of Death.
freud : ato el suicidio al principio de tanathos. la muerte
The soul seeks death as it lives. Death is always going on, and so we are committing suicide as we live.
el alma busca la muerte mienteas vive cometemos suicidio a medida que morimos
The soul contains both: a continuing spring of erotic reaching and a never-ending winter of grief and mourning.
el alma contiene tanatos y eros
Individuality appears in Asian thought as a fundamental illusion, in fact, the most serious delusion of the separated mind.
el individualismo es la ilusion fumdamental en la filosofia dw Asia
daimon (elaborated in my book The Soul’s Code)
daimon : ver libro Codigo del Alma, de J.Hillman
Thus the suicide question turns to your daimon for an answer, asking what does it intend by haunting you with a desire for leaving this world into which it seems to have wanted to come.
el daimon en busca de.una respuesta a la existencia en esta vida
Egyptian New Kingdom papyrus translated as Dialogue of a World-Weary Man with his Ba-Soul.
primer papiro egipcio.donde se dialoga.con el.suicidio
“All things are full of gods” is an ancient Greek saying; “In my father’s house are many mansions,” a Christian one.
todo esta lleno de dioses – frase griega
“incurvature” as Robert Burton
robert burton : curvatura de espalda : dolor cronico 0
As Jung says, nature is aristocratic, profligate, throwing up countless attempts, but only few seeds survive and even fewer rise to genius or culture.
la naturaleza es aristocratica (solo pocas semillas sobreviven y menos aun crecen como genios o cultura)
in Jung’s language, there is a god in the disease (which is not to say that God is a disease, or the disease is a god and must be worshipped as disease, for this is to idolize disease and to limit the god to its shadow).
hay un dios en la enfermedad / patología : no que la.imcapacidad.es un dios
Contrary to heroic redemption is heroic suppression.
redencion y supresion heroica
Culture evokes an intelligentsia
cultura.evoca inteligencia . valores.ocultos. pero el arte es hacer visible lo.oculto
But art is the visibility of the occulted,
arte : visibilidad de lo oculto
Are they also evidence of culture?
hay evidencia de cultura? (en las estadisticas)
what is the relation between humanities (arts) and culture?
cual es la relacion entre humanidades y cultura?
Culture takes place in closed, even closeted places,
cultura sucede en espaciones confinados.
What goes with civilization are irrigation systems, monuments, victories, historical endurance, wealth, and power as a cohesive force with common purpose. Civilization works; culture flowers. Civilization looks ahead, culture looks back.
La.civizacion son monumentos y sistemas organizados : la civilizaciom trabaja, la cultura florece. La civilizacion mira al futuro y la.cultura al pasado
Borges said in a late poem (“Quince Monedas”): Solo perduran en el tiempo las cosas que no fueron del tiempo.
borges : solo perduran en el tiempo las cosas que no fueron del tiempo
“Athene, Ananke, and the Necessity of Abnormal Psychology,”
articulo recomendado
Rather than conceiving “depth” to be only interior to the subject, depth could also be found in the object, in the images presented by the world.
profundo no solo al sujeto sino al objeto .
depth psychology from its introverted and subjectivist bias
liberar a la psicologia profunda de sus sezgos
was offered the opportunity to attempt the founding of depth psychology, and therapy, too, on the Renaissance neo-Platonist idea of the anima mundi
…fumdar la psicologia profunda en la idea neoplatonica dwl anima mundi
as Plotinus says, is always an Aphrodite,
el alma es siempre afrodita
and our aesthetic responses are evidence of the soul’s active participation in the world.
…. y las respuestas esteticas tieen que ver con la participacion activa
all the while erroneously believing that our personal miseries have their origins in our personal relations.
….con todas las terapias creyendo que los problemas tienen origen en las relaciones personales 0
Psyche in Apuleius’s tale was imagined to be the most beautiful figure in all classical myth.
psique , en la historia de Apuleyo, era la figura mas bella de la mitología
psychological activism?
activismo psicologico
“aesthetic response.”
respuesta estetica
my statement that aesthetic response is political action.
mi posicion es que la respuesta estetica es una accion politca
I believe that many of the problems that sap the economy—absenteeism, slow-downs, addictions, sexual harassment, careless quality control, nagging, underperformance, ill health, resentful lawsuits—are architectural problems that have become psychological problems.
problemas arquitectonicos se volvieron psicologicos
Burnout comes when practice does not have a vision, and you don’t really know what ideal you’re putting daily into practice.
agotamiento se produce.cuando no hay vision en el dia a dia
Ethics is the realm of practice; aesthetics, the realm of sensate images.
etica es el dominio de la pracrica , y la estetica de las imagenes
kosmos is originally an aesthetic term;
cosmos es una palabra estetica
It meant the right placement of things, fittingly, becomingly, nicely. Kosmos was used especially of women with respect to their embellishments.
el lugar correcto de las cosas
“cosmetics,”
cosmetica : kosmos
Our problems are similar: the extension of airports into farm land, the protection of smaller farmers against industrialization, the concretizing of the world, increasing slums, high rises that block the sunlight, the mass tourism that despoils rural places in the search for beauty, the retreat of individual citizens from the urban world into private sanctuaries of transcendent meditation, psychotherapy, alcohol, and entertainment. Collectively, these problems keep the soul numbed to its dilemmas.
nuestros problemas son similares… [larga lista]
Our Western tradition has long condemned nature as a machine, an enemy, or a lifeless, soulless extension of objective matter for exploitation.
occidentalmente, la naturaleza como objeto de explotacion
The forests were places of miasma, of disease, of pagans—read it in Hawthorne—of all kinds of bad things.
hoy el bosque es belleza pero no siempre fue asi : era lugar de paganos y bestias salvajes
The natural is not necessarily the beautiful and the beautiful not necessarily natural.
lo natural no necesariamente es bello, y viceversa
“Nature loves to hide.” At least it is as elusive as the mythical nymphs of nature, or illusory as the Hindu idea of Lila,
heraclito : la naturaleza ama ocultarse
Kepler’s astronomy, Linné’s botany, Goethe’s Farbenlehre and Urpflanze, Darwin’s species, and the contemporary Gaia hypothesis all present parables of the mythic imagination,
kepler, lynne, goethe…. ideas o parabolas de la imaginacion mitica
imagination is perpetually creating nature
la imaginacion crea a la naturaleza
nature is archetypically psychological.
la naturaleza es arquetipicamente psicologica (por permanente regeneracion)
an idea of nature.
no hay una.cosa llamada naturaleza , hay una idea de naturaleza
But this turn leads to a major shadow: by turning to nature, to god-given nature for soul, we leave the City, thereby fostering more urban devastation.
la sombra de volver a la naturaleza : crear mas ciudades y ocupar nuevos espacios
The Greeks said, “All things are full of gods,” so therefore the gods are everywhere.
los griegos.decian : tpdas.las.cosas.estan llenas de dioses == los.dioses estan en todas partes
Pan, Ares, Poseidon, Dionysus, and Artemis.
Pan, Ares, Poseidon, Dioniso y Artemisa
Finally, it was decided that Poseidon gave the horse, but it was Athena who gave the bridal and the reins.
Poseidon da el caballo, Atenea las.riendas y estribos
list of city outsiders
todos estos dioses estaban fuera de la.ciudad
Dionysus’s place was the theatre Dioniso tenia lugar dentro, en el teatro
zoe
zoe : Dioniso (instinto)
instinct, beyond civilization and beyond domestication.)
instinto : mas alla de la domesticación / civilizacion
emotional way. Her places were outside the walls. However, she was in the city for women in the pangs of childbirth. This lady of the beasts, as she was called, was the force of nature in a women’s body as she gave birth.
Artemisa solo estaba emocionalmente dentro de la.ciudad durante los nacimientos la.fuerza de la naturaleza.en el.cuerpo de las.mujeres.cuando dan a luz
a huntress that had to be alone.
caso.contrario era una cazadora
throng or crowd,
polis = multitud
quality of an object—kami in the Japanese sense, theos in the Greek.
cualidad divina de um objeto = theos
Apollo was particularly associated with and became the patron god of the arts, even medicine and science.
Apolo protector de las artes, medicina y ciencia.
Idealizing wilderness and placing it in Idaho and the Adirondacks casts a shadow on our daily world,
idealizar algo proyecta una sombra en otro lado, opuesto
desolate, uncultivated, waste—exactly what was meant by the ancient idea of wilderness: the place of Cain and the scapegoat in the Bible.
desolado, no cultivado, un desperdicio : es la idea antigua de salvajidad (wilderness)
The Repression of Beauty
la represion de la belleza
as Plato would say, lifting the mind to permanent values and eternal truths.
…como Platon dwcia, elevarla mente a verdades eternas
To speak of beauty today, so soon after the Gulf War with its apocalyptic devastation, could seem precious, elitist, even fascistic.
hablar de belleza cuando hay tiempos de guerra , puede sonar fascista
The political right took over fields left untilled by the political left.
shall claim that the most significant unconscious today, that factor which is most important but most unrecognized in the work of our psychological culture, could be defined as “beauty”
la belleza como el.factor mas inconcente tenido en cuenta
or even the spirit which receives its due in meditation practice.
The Gaia Hypothesis of deep ecology
la hipotesis gaia es ecologia profunda
a complete reversal of values, an enantiodromia
plantea una reversión de los valores : enantrodomia
creatio ex nihilo
creatio ex nihilo : principio teologico que indica que alguien creo la.materia
res extensa.
res extensa y res cognita , dualismo extremo de Descartes en su ontología
Darwin up to date.
es.darwinismo al dia ( todo es interaccion funcional)
by Lovelock and Margulis,
formulada por Lovelock y Margulis (ambos cientificos en fisica)
The world of deep ecology remains physis.
la ecologia profunda permanece fisica
below the ecological crisis lies the deeper crisis of love,
debajo de la crisis de ecología subyace la crisis de amor
directly from the repression of beauty,
la.carencia de amor viene por falta de belleza
Narcissism had classically been described by Freud in as an absence or disturbance of “object libido,”
narcisismo : ausencia de molestia de la libido objetiva : sin deseo o interes x el mundo exrerioe
narcissism is a beauty disorder,
naecisismo como desorden de la belleza 0
Zeitgeist.
…en el contexto del espiritu de su epoca
resulting in a severe dissociation between what is thought, said, and written and what the senses see, the heart feels, and the world suffers.
disocacion entre lo que se ve, se siente y se sufre
so that subjectivism finally degenerates, as in our time, to commercialism
subjetivismo de los críticos de arte.deviene en negocio comercial
Beauty is reduced to conceptual formalisms.
por otro lado, objetivismo reduce la belleza a formalismos
for without her all the other gods would remain hidden like the abstractions of mathematics and theology, but never palpable realities.
sin la necesidad ontologica de la mujer , nada existiría
The artist, of course, does indeed reveal the extraordinary in the ordinary.
el artista revela lo extraordinario en lo ordinario
Kosmos, when translated from the Greek into Latin, became universum,
cosmos = universo
The Stoics used kosmos for the anima mundi,
los estoicos usaban la palabra kosmos
the universe is directed to the production of Beauty.”
teleologicamente , el universo produce belleza
The Aphroditic notion of beauty as sense perception or aisthesis raises display to the primary mode of knowledge and replaces belief in the unknowable with trust in the visible.
belleza.como.conocimiento, principio afroditico
display of the world reveals its truth.
shifting back from the Roman universe to the Greek cosmos, beauty, too, shifts its locus from the universal to the particular.
cambiar del.universo romano al.cosmos griego
This is “sheer appearance for its own sake,” or, what Portmann calls “unaddressed phenomena.”
mera aparieencia por si misma ( fenomenos sin dirección de finalidad ) Portman
“art for art”;
el arte x el arte, cada especie se muestra a si misma
idea of cosmos and the idea of animal display,
en relaciom a esta idea del cosmos
We would still be relying upon the power of the personal rational will,
dependemos del ego (voluntad personal racional)
similia similibus curantur.
similia simlibus curantur : lo similar cura a lo similar
The road to beauty means for the ego to enter conditions like those of beauty.
placer , la primer condicion
“Beauty,” he said, “is pleasure regarded as the quality of a thing.”
la belleza es placer considerado como cualidad (santayana)
The arresting of motion has long been consciously used in painting, for instance in the static riveting gaze of Coptic portraits and Greek orthodox icons, in the still life
The moment of attention does not last; it breaks the flow of time for an instant, but time returns. Continuity seems stronger than eternity.
la continuidad parece mas.fuerte que la eternidad
Plotinus (Enneads ..): “When the soul falls in with ugliness, it shrinks back, repulses it, turns away from it as disagreeable and alien.”
Eneida, .. Lo que el alma rechaza se vuelve feo
The turn toward and not shrinking from is quite clearly a way to beauty:
Volverse hacia adelante , no achicarse, es una forma de buscar belleza
The work of art allows repressed districts of the world and the soul to leave the ugly and enter into beauty.
el arte permite ir hacia la belleza
The “pagans” were asked not to forget or neglect the gods. Surely this caution has some relation with the role of beauty in Hellenic culture. But how? Perhaps, it means that art, as anything else we humans do, remembers the nonhuman and immortal powers, as the gods were defined in antiquity.
poderes inmortales.: asi los dioses definidos en la antiguedad
Alfred North Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas (New York: The Free Press, ), .
referencia bibliografica : Historia de las Ideas, . Whitehead, A.
Plato was the first to show the intimate connection between love and beauty. He said love desires the beautiful—
platon : el amor desea lo bello
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever,” said Keats.
un poco de belleza .es.um regocijo para siempre (keats)
Because of her, mighty Aphrodite, the world was desirable. Moreover, her absence left things in disorder, even ugly.
debido afrodita , el mundo era.deseable
su ausenciadejaba a las cosas.feas, en desorden
For Aphrodite—the embodiment of beauty itself—brought pleasure and made people and things attractive.
placer , atracxion; belleza encarnada en Afrodita
What the Greeks called Aphrodite Pandemos (popular and sort of pornographic)—
afrodita pandemos : erotizacion casi pornografica
Aphrodite Urania as the heavenly haunting aspiring that enhances all things and lifts the soul with other sorts of joy, other styles of desire.
Afrodita urania, que eleva las cosas
proportion, rhythm, closure, scale, balance of dissonance, integration of parts, finish and workmanship, etc.
…. proporcion, ritmo, balance, integracion : valores formales
The subjective position takes an opposite stance. Beauty is not in a thing; it is in the eye of the beholder.
posicion subjetiva : la belleza esta en el ojo del.observador
aisthesis, to sense, to perceive,
aisthesis : sentir, percibir
So we might say that there is an aesthetic instinct, a sense of beauty given with our biological being.
existe un sentido estetico en nosotros
What does beauty do? . It awakens longing—a sense of need, desire. . It awakens ideals—for something, some state of perfection. . It slows: Thomas Aquinas said, “beauty arrests motion:” opens into stopping, regarding, more close looking, respecting, and contemplation.
que hace la belleza ? ejemplos
Greek word from which we have our term “aesthetics” means “I breathe in.”
estética == yo respiro en
We are seized, lifted beyond ourselves,
As Plato said, beauty gives wings to the soul.
la belleza le da alas al alma
I’d like you to entertain the idea that our habits and habitations, our psychic interiority and interior design are deeply correlated, much as it was believed for centuries that the soul of the person and the anima mundi or soul of the world are inseparable.
alma interior y anima mundi son inseparales
Today the repressed is outside of us, and we are anesthetized and tranquilized to the world we inhabit, what has been called “psychic numbing,”
represion exterior : nublamiento psiquico 0
pots and pans and windowsill plants
gang member is held by the image of himself and as this image is displayed to others. His life-support system as a human being is not the social system.
un gangster es sostenido por su imagen y como se la exhibe. Su sistema de soporte vital.como humano no el el sistema social sino su imagineria
Singing, constructing altars and gardens, murals, drums, processions, ceremonies, and mournings. Methods of imagination.
metodos de la imaginacion
This connection between ecology, love, and beauty
conexion : ecologia amor y belleza
Beauty first accords with pagan philosophy rather than Christian, for it returns our longing to this world rather than to another, not here, not yet.
nuestro anhelo es direccionado a este mundo aqui ahora (paganismo) no en una futura salvación en otro mundo
Renaissance theory of image-making held that the distorted and frightening image made more impact on memory than one of calm harmony.
teoria de la.imagen : algo aterrador deja mas memoria perdurable que algo bello
“When the soul falls in with ugliness, it shrinks back, repulses it, turns away from it as disagreeable and alien” (Enneads ..).
cita a La Eneida ..
psychology’s self-conception: its obsession with subjectivity.
obsesion con la subjetividad = autoconcepcion de la psicologia
Sardello to differentiated spirit; Giegerich to relentless thinking; Watkins to societal oppression.
sardello, giegerich y watkins
We would release the imprisoned psyche from confinement in its own definition.
liberar a la psique del confinamiento de su propia definicion
Here we must admit that psychology from its beginnings in German universities, French and British asylums, and Viennese consulting rooms is fundamentally flawed.
la psicologia nacio defectuosa
It bore the ancestral curse of Cartesian rationalism, which divided the world into subjects and objects, conscious human minds and dead material things.
racionalismo cartesiano su defecto
Restricted to a science of the personalized individual subject,
restringido al sujeto individual personalizado
The planet is an alien place, essentially nihilistic, into which the individual human is thrown, estranged and anomic.
el planeta como lugar alienado para el si-mismo
disordered, senseless, and enslaved planet.
… como planeta esclavizado, sin orden, sin sentido
We need to imagine an ecological psychology that takes its starting point not in human concerns only, but in the planet’s concerns and its beings concerns,
una ecologia psicologica en lo que concierne al mundo
Justice, Beauty, and Destiny
justicia, belleza y destino como valores universales de fuerza arquetipales (?)
Without them, existence becomes Hobbesian—nasty and brutish.
sin valores se vuelve brutal la existencia
moral, aesthetic, and intentional cosmos,
asi en el cosmos se encuentra moral, estetica e.intencionalidad
My empirical source for these fundamentals is suffering, that perennial source of depth psychology.
la fuente empirica es el sufrimiento
Our feeling reflects tragedy, not energy, not the psychodynamics of opposites and the psychodramatics of struggle, but the tragic composted with its co-relative, comedy.
trageda y comedia como reflejos de los sentimientos
world as well, formulated as natural law. The Greeks considered Justice (Themis) foundational. She was a great earth goddess, like Gaia whom Zeus, too, had to obey.
justicia : diosa de la tierra, raiz de la polis
The pursuit of Justice leads psychology toward moral and political philosophy.
buscar justicia dirige la psicologia a la filosofia moral y política
Getting things right—that is where ethics and aesthetics converge, which now leads us to Beauty. “Divine enhancement of the earthly world,”
hacer las cosas bien, nos conduce a la bellleza
el engrandeceniento divino del las bellezas terrestres
Beauty calls: we fall in love, we buy the painting,
la belleza llama
When Destiny is taken literally, it becomes determinism, and Justice, legalism, so Beauty taken literally becomes aestheticism,
si el destino se toma lliteral, se convierte en determinismo
“Let the soul fall in with the ugly,” said Plotinus, “and at once it shrinks within itself, denies the thing, turns away from it, out of tune, resenting it.”
la eneida, plotino. ..
Their power emerges in our awareness as necessity—
ananke (diosa de la.necesidad , rige el destino). su poder emerge en la.conciencia de la necesidad
Something is meant, something is wanted, and something is living alongside my life, nudging, urging, sometimes seizing the wheel and setting another course. Unless a sense of destiny is built into the foundations of psychology, it becomes essentially anemic,
…. moviendo la rueda y cambiando el.curso
se vuelve anemica la.psicologia sin sentido de destino
It is an activity of faithful observation, which brings the breadth of mythical powers into the small world of the little people who whisper in the grass.
una tarea de observacion que trae fuerzas miticas al llano
Observation becomes a daily practice of observances.
la practica diaria de observancias : la observacion. es religioso y animista
This paper integrates two short addresses: “Laying the Table,” a keynote talk at the Psychology at the Threshold Conference, University of California at Santa Barbara in 000 and published in Psychology at the Threshold, edited by Dennis Patrick Slattery and Lionel Corbett (Carpenteria, Calif.: Pacifica Graduate Institute, 00); “Justice and Beauty: Foundations of an Ecological Psychology,”
fundamentos para una psicologia ecologica
I do not want to overlook the fact that the psychological method I am pursuing, following from Jung and Campbell, gives scant attention to the historical time frame of the myths, to their geographical locations, to the philological analyses
mi metodo sigue al de Jung y Campbell, en marco historico y localizado de los mitos
The revelations, which an archetypal psychology seeks to uncover, are ancient myths in behavior, in the phenomena we all unthinkingly absorb as usual reality and utterly unmythical.
las revelaciones son mitos antiguos que la.psicologia arquetipal busca descubrir, en lo fenómenico
Archetypal psychology attempts to connect present experience to historical culture—
conectando experienncia presente a.cultura histórica
my urge to fly sunward above it all with Icarus; my unknown union with my mother, like Oedipus; my unapproachable distancing, intactness, like Artemis; my aggressive attack on dirt and bestial monsters, like Hercules; the unworried smile and the charming allure I bring to every encounter, like Aphrodite.
icaro : la urgencia de volar por sobre todo edipo : mi union oculta con mi madre artemisa : mi lejania sin tacto, sin proximidad
hercules : mis ataques agresivos al lodo y sus monstruos bestiales afrodita : la sonrisa dwspreocupada y aura a todo.encuentro
it is myth that gives us the sense of reality: reality is not the absence of myth, or the contrary of myth; our immersion in myth is reality.
el mito le da sentido a la realidad
The gods do not affect individuals and their families alone, only human beings; they affect the crops and the herds, and the institutions of state.
los dioses no solo afectan al indviduo sino al estado mismo
city, too, can be pathologized by mythical factors—exactly as Jung said in “Wotan” in , looking at Germany. The gods live in the polis.
C.Jung, . Wotan. una ciudad puede ser patologizada por fuerzas miticas
The government turns to Apollonian consciousness,
Apolo : diagnostico y cura explicados por el gobierno
The solutions imagined by a patient for his illness belongs to the image of his illness. That is why therapists listen closely to what patients want at the beginning of therapy:
lo que el paciente expresa.corresponde a la imagen de su enfermedad : e imagina su cura
the patient is constellated by his condition.
el paciente es constelado por.su condicion
Myth is reality, and recognition of this certitude, and the analysis of myths at work among us, may keep us from falling prey to the blind belief and the disasters of delusion, for we are in a collective madness.
es mito es realidad , que nos interpreta esta locura colectiva
diversions, simply circuses for the proles and plebs.
“The gods have become diseases.”
Jung : los dioses se han vuelto enfermedades
Instead, the gods appear in our disorders, private and also public.
los dioses aparecen en nuestros desordenes publicos y privados
lesson about the sickness of the city with which the tragedy of Oedipus Tyrannos opens and which is the concern of Oedipus when answering the Sphinx and when seeking out the evil that scourges Thebes.
la leccion de Edipo cuando responde a la esfinge, por Tebas
the focus of any psychology of soul since the soul of the individual is located within the wider scope of the anima mundi.
el alma para la pscologia arquetipal debe ser parte del anima mundi.
Yes, the Oedipus myth sets the course for depth psychology,
este mito de Edipo sienta la base de la psicologia profunda
Jung by searching out “the god in the disease”
seguimos a Jung buscando al dios en la enfermedad
To which god or goddess or hero do I sacrifice?”
a que dios hacer sacrificio?
For the troubles of Oedipus, it was Apollo; for the troubles of Hippolytus, it was Aphrodite; for our troubles in the soccer stadiums, it is Ares (Mars).
Ares para ls luchas en el estadio
for instance, when a favorite gentleman jockey, having disappointed his followers by not winning, was set upon by the crowd and whipped.
Mars and Venus share a lust for life as well as a life of lust.
Marte y Cenus : lujuria de vida
the discipline of beauty of which we have just spoken and shall return to again; the discipline of bonding about which I shall say more towards the end of my remarks; and hierarchical discipline.
2 disciplinas
Hierarchy protects the god from his fury.
la jerarquia protege al dios de la furia
After all, the gods, as the Neoplatonists insisted, are intelligences.
los dioses son inteligencias = arquetipos
We may speak of mob psychosis, of an abaissement du niveau mental,
psicologia de la mafia, en las masas de gente
we may talk of the revolt of the masses and the impotence of the oppressed classes, of the loss of the father who gives authority and order, of the passive-aggressive behavior fostered by the media, of urban despair and anomie, of exploitation and displacement through the commercial manipulation of sports
revuelta de las masas e impotencia de las clases rwprimidas….
this very transgression of all civic norms tells us that what is going on is not simply “sick” it is also mythic.
no es sintoma de enfermedad sino mitico
just there in the inexplicable behaviors we call psychopathology.
… en eso que llamamos psicopatologia
The riots have been called “delayed puberty crises,” and even thought about in terms of young males seeking initiation through physical risk.
… hombres jovenes buscando su iniciacion en riesgo fisico : crisis de pubertad atrasada
In the moose, for example, the rack of antlers on its head grows to a breadth of two meters in only 0 days.
because anger belongs both mythologically and symbolically to the traits of Mars.
el enojo tambien mitico y simbolico asociado a Marte
Ira (anger) and cupiditas (desire)
Ira y Deseo : Marte y Venus
“Instrumental” violence used purposefully as a means to an end (as is the intention, usually, of hooliganism) must not fall into “expressive” violence—
violencia instrumental
the police deployed to maintain order. [] Mars always strains at the leash of discipline which checks expression for the sake of instrumentality.
How often do the deeper explorations within personal relations start off as angry battles?
A ritualized revival is in the offing.
depression, impotence, and isolation—
depresion, impotencia y aislamiento : bajada de tetosterona
a vigorous city must honor Mars.
una ciudad vigorosa debe honrar a Marte
spectating. Nothing more belongs to city life; a city is the place of spectacle and pageant,
la ciudad es el escenario del espectaculo y la pompa
Spectacles satisfy the citizen’s need for participation in the civic throng.
los espectaculos satisfacen la necesidad ciudadana de participacion
the city that it is a living organism grounded not simply in commerce and culture but in transhuman factors that still demand blood.
la.ciudad no es solo comercio y cultura sino violencia que demanda sangre
the madness is Martial, a divine fury,
la locura es marcial, una furia divina
belonging archetypally to the human being
la violencia pertenece arquetipicamente al ser humano, tambien como animal politico
aegis
escudo
Michael Meade, Men and the Water of Life).
Michael Meade : los hombres y el agua de la vida
Only that god who brings a disease can take it away. Like cures like.
solo el dios que trajo la enfermedad puede llevarsela : lo similar cura lo similar.
In fact, we may discover a correspondence between two kinds of interior. The conditions of our psyches, I will suggest, reflect the interior of our rooms. There are relations between our habits and our habitations.
correspondencia de interiores, habitos y habitaciones
Transportation
transporte y demas temas citadinos
City, Soul, and Myth
ciudad . alma y mito
suburbia and exurbia than from old neighborhoods and night town.
comida de alma . musca del alma (soul) viene qmeno de suburbios y exurbios que de viejos vecinos
John Keats: “consider the world the vale of soul-making, and then you will find the use of the world.”
john keats : considera al mundo como hacedor de almas y tendras el sentido del mismo
Plato and Renaissance thought: the idea of the anima mundi or soul in the world,
anima mundi : el alma en el mundo, idea platonica
C. G. Jung wrote: not the psyche is in me, but I am in the psyche.
Jung : la psique no esta en mi sino que yo estoy en la psique : upanishads
myths of city-building, of civilization: Gilgamesh constructing the thick walls of Uruk against the primeval chaos; Marduk, founder of Babylon, overcoming the swamp monster Tiamat.
mitos fundadores de.ciudad : por.gilgamesh y marduk
What do we mean by “civilization”?
que entendemosx civilizacion?
Culture and its ferment may be a desirable accessory, but is it necessary to civilized order and security?
civilizacion implica eficiencia . pero.cultura?
A look over the shoulder at the model polis of the historical imagination with its protective goddess, Athene, shows the contrasting myths at work.
miticamente Athenea es la diosa protectora de la polis griega
Many of her images present her dressed in defensive armor, shielded, helmeted, weaponed, with a small figure of victory on her shoulder.
atenea defensora de la ciudad fortaleza
Athene was patroness of the men’s societies called phratria
phratria, ageupamiento de los hombres por la.ciudad
she protected the institution of marriage:
protectora del mateimonio
Her influence extended to Rome where she became Minerva, one of that city’s great triad of ruling dominants.
Minerva en Roma
To civilize, Minerva-Athene normalizes.
civilizar y normalizar, con Minerva-Atenea
In fact, Athene had particular trouble with Dionysus, Poseidon, and the goddess of sensual pleasure and sexual love, Aphrodite. Dionysus frequently referred to as Lord of Souls, with his dancing crowd of followers,
Atenea regia la ciudad con otros olimpicos como Dionisio, señor de las almas (con su cortejo danzante)
His associated animal, the goat,
cabra, su animal asociado
both an olive tree and a spring of salt-water
regalos miticos : olivo y surgente de agua salada
Control, discipline, order, the marriage, and the household as central to the city.
control, disciplina, orden, matrimonio y hogar
Dionysus calls young women to desert their tasks
mientras dionisio llama a los jovenes a rebelarse y desertar
Athene was always called “virgin,” Aphrodite was promiscuity itself.
atenea virgen y armada, afrodita promiscua y desnuda
Their diverging styles do show a common trait: subversion, interruption, surprise.
tres poderes miticos que llaman a la subversion tambien, interrupcion y sorpresa (dioniso, afrodita y poseidon)
this city, Providence, was founded by a convicted man who escaped and who considered himself a kind of immigrant among the native land-owning people. Roger Williams
ciudad de Providencia , fundada por un convicto profugo, Roger Williams
Gilbert Durand discusses it in his masterly work Les Structures anthropologiques de l’imaginaire.
gilbert durand. las esteucturas antropologicas del imáginario
and the fall is marked by an inhibition: a refusal to ascend.
la caida es marcada por la.inhibicion del ascenso
Durand notes that la chute is a phenomenon of feminization,
la caida como fenomeno de feminizacion
For instance, the tower as anti-feminine, or at least inviolate, self-enclosed.
el arquetipo de la Torre.como anti-femenino o al menos inviolada, auto-contenido
The tower belongs to Santa Barbara, beheaded by her father.
santa barbara, pertenece a la torre como patrona ante desastres y fuegos
society.” It is basically “symbolic of ascent,” or spiritual pride, arrogance, hubris.
simbolo de ascenso, orgullo, arrogancia
There is also fire, the immediate cause of the fall.
el fuego , causa de la caida de la torre
Heraclitus who asserted its pre-eminence among the elements. For him fire was a cosmic force everywhere, the soul or mind of the cosmos, an ever-living, never-still kind of consciousness that runs through all things.
heraclito y el alma conciencia del.fuego
since in the pre-Socratic view of the elements, there is no fiery apocalypse
en la vision pre socratica de los elementos , no hay un apocalipsis final sono ciclico
The way down is the way up, says Heraclitus. Just as a Pluto/Hades, god of the dead and the underworld is also god of fullness and riches.
heraclito : el camino hacia abajo es el camino hacia arriba
Zero from sifr, originally means naught, a nothing, emptiness without content.
zero : cifr : cifra
And the symbolic round circle in the Hindu mathematics from which the sign came represents beginning and end, both fullness (purna) and void (sunya)—
el cero como circulo denota completitud y vacio para los.hindues (purna) y (sunya)
immeasurable possibility.
inmensurables posibilidades
One final amplification if you will allow:
metodo de amplificacion jungiano: enumeracion y relacion del simbolo
Jachin and Boaz, representing the power of individualized life.
la.torre singular del tarot oculta a Jachim y Boaz
“with such unity they can enthrone idolatry.”
de la unidad puede derivar la idolatría
But looking more deeply, we can see that the Lord’s punishment is actually a correction of the error of unity.
la multi-cultiralidad es una correccion al intento unico de imposicion-unidad
The idolatry of anthropocentrism;
la idolatría del antropocentrismo
It is also a solution. It offers an exceptionally valuable insight for understanding the fall of the towers in Manhattan.
es mas que uma correccion : es una solucion
“There are many ways to kneel and kiss this earth,” said Rumi.
Rumi : hay muchas frmas de arrodillarse y besar la tierra
“To make an end,” says T. S. Eliot, “is to make a beginning / The end is where we start from” (“Little Gidding”).
T.S.Elliot : llegar a un final, es llegar a un principio
If we follow Jung’s dictum—“the gods have become diseases”—then the wound of Ground Zero has opened access to very specific archetypal forces: Pluto and Saturn.
Pluton y Saturno , fuerzas arquetipicas de la zona ground zero
“In a dark time, the eye begins to see,” wrote Theodore Roethke
En tiempos oscuros, tus ojos empezarán a ver (Theodore Roethke)
Fantasía cartesiana-cristiana : ampliación
La “Fantasía Cartesiana-Cristiana” (según Hillman), refiere a la visión del mundo que desanima la materia y niega el alma del mundo (anima mundi).
Es un dualismo sujeto-objeto: Divide el mundo en “sujetos conscientes” (mentes humanas) y “objetos muertos” (materia inerte) o res extensa: El mundo material como mera “cosa extensa”, sin alma ni vida propia. Así, es puro racionalismo: Solo la mente humana tiene conciencia; las cosas están muerta.
En relación a lo cristiano : “Mi reino no es de este mundo”: La frase de Cristo que devalúa el mundo material. Como también, el animismo politeísta fue considerado “demoníaco y herético” : Se enfoca en la trascendencia vs.iInmanencia: un reino celestial futuro, no en este mundo presente…
Consecuentemente, produce : Subjetivismo psíquico, extremo, y muerte del ánima mundi (a través del Apocalipsis) .
Similia similibus curantur : ampliando
Es el principio fundamental de la homeopatía, pero también es un principio antiguo de la medicina y la filosofía. En psicología arquetipal, Hillman lo usa a este principio en dos sentidos:
- Para la belleza: “El camino a la belleza significa que el ego debe entrar en condiciones similares a las de la belleza” – para experimentar belleza, debemos volvernos como la belleza
- Para la enfermedad: “Solo el dios que trae la enfermedad puede llevársela” – el mismo poder arquetípico causante del problema, tiene la cura
“No puedes curar algo desde fuera de ello. Debes entrar en la condición misma para transformarla. El remedio está en la naturaleza del problema mismo. El dios/arquetipo que patologiza también sana”
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