- The film, combined with other things that came up lately, is inspiring: be brave; do what you feel is needed right now; enjoy and suffer that which is right and which is yours. Which for me, at this moment, is to study religion, esotericism, psychoanalysis, poststructuralism. To learn what people did (and do) because they believe in it and need it, because they need to ask questions and live them out. What matters is only the right now.
- I feel grateful that for me, Freud and Jung are still, and will always be, verbal and academic constructions, rather than film characters (Viggo and Fassbender) or, more broadly, cultural characters, heroes of popular imagination (which enables them to be represented as a) condensed clusters of theoretical thought b) little gift shop plush dolls).
To be more precise, I do imagine Freud primarily in academic terms, but when it comes to Jung, a subjective and emotional perception will always be more important. What I care about is how I myself am free to imagine him, and how I am free to imagine an affinity between us. In a sense, Jung represents the part of me that is less social than other parts, that wonders and questions and trusts and is creative and dreams and listens to dreams.
- I feel grateful for knowing psychoanalysis as a thing that people did and discovered and created, and knowing that I, too, am discovering and creating some field of my own (our own), some theory and practice of inhabiting the world. And I would rather do whatever I am doing because I believe in it and feel drawn to it. I want to have this honesty -
- which means, now, that I might again be returning to this way of being when my primary motivation is not money, comfort, prestige, relationships, even - not "staying afloat", but this: staying true, growing truer! Doing something because I long for it. For Estonian politics of memory, I do not long. Nor do I long to understand texts, or linguistics, structuralism, death of the author, power structures etc. etc. I like it, and, let's face it, I need it. But still -
what I have always longed for is transcendence, damn it!
TRANSCENDENCE
- I feel grateful that for me, Freud and Jung are still, and will always be, verbal and academic constructions, rather than film characters (Viggo and Fassbender) or, more broadly, cultural characters, heroes of popular imagination (which enables them to be represented as a) condensed clusters of theoretical thought b) little gift shop plush dolls).
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From Jung's Red Book. http://www.rmanyc.org/nav/exhibitions/view/308
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- which means, now, that I might again be returning to this way of being when my primary motivation is not money, comfort, prestige, relationships, even - not "staying afloat", but this: staying true, growing truer! Doing something because I long for it. For Estonian politics of memory, I do not long. Nor do I long to understand texts, or linguistics, structuralism, death of the author, power structures etc. etc. I like it, and, let's face it, I need it. But still -
what I have always longed for is transcendence, damn it!
TRANSCENDENCE
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