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The Afternoon of Life
From Carl Jung’s On the Psychology of the Unconscious: Our life is like the course of the sun. In the morning it gains continually in strength until it reaches the zenith-heat of high noon. Then comes the enantiodromia: the steady forward movement no longer denotes an increase, but a decrease, in strength. Thus our task Continue reading
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On the Separation of the Soul From the Body
As I grow older, I find myself increasingly inclined toward the Platonic position that the body is indeed something akin to a prison of the soul. My body is my own, yes. And yet, I and my body are not one and the same thing. In youth, we experience a false sense of security with Continue reading