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THE ICY SIDE OF THE SELF The Role of Cold in The Individuation Process
THE ICY SIDE OF THE SELF The Role of Cold in The Individuation Process
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The Role of Cold in The Individuation Process by Enrico Francot criticizes the widely positive interpretation of Jung’s vision of the Self. Francot approaches the Self in an archetypal perspective, i.e. deprived of a redeeming profile.
The Self, he argues, has a very powerful shade side which he tries to explore philologically and looking into the myths – intended in the sense of Walter Otto – of the Bible, of the Mahabharata and of the Divina Commedia by Dante Alighieri, a corner stone in medieval religious vision of life.
The author admits that his fascination for ice comes from a personal experience. From that experience he draws the hypothesis that ice belongs to life no more and no less than fire. And that the awareness of ice is much more essential to the individuation process than was suggested by the barrenness it is usually associated with.
This book, he says, will search how deeply rooted in body and Psyche cold and ice are. It will explore whether they may be related to the centre of the personality, that is to the Self, to the archetype of the drive for individuation. If such a relationship were to be proven, then along the quest of the hero some horrendous freezing entity could be eerily lurking beyond or beside the fiery dragons, the monsters more commonly depicted as major obstacles on the path of individuation.
The Self, he argues, has a very powerful shade side which he tries to explore philologically and looking into the myths – intended in the sense of Walter Otto – of the Bible, of the Mahabharata and of the Divina Commedia by Dante Alighieri, a corner stone in medieval religious vision of life.
The author admits that his fascination for ice comes from a personal experience. From that experience he draws the hypothesis that ice belongs to life no more and no less than fire. And that the awareness of ice is much more essential to the individuation process than was suggested by the barrenness it is usually associated with.
This book, he says, will search how deeply rooted in body and Psyche cold and ice are. It will explore whether they may be related to the centre of the personality, that is to the Self, to the archetype of the drive for individuation. If such a relationship were to be proven, then along the quest of the hero some horrendous freezing entity could be eerily lurking beyond or beside the fiery dragons, the monsters more commonly depicted as major obstacles on the path of individuation.
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