#loss of continuity

[seolf]

I only use analysis to combat illness or confusion. As soon as I see clearly again, I turn away from it and from over-analytical people. Analysis is only to be used when needed. The rest of the time one should live passionately and impulsively, create and test one’s strength.

Nin, Anaïs. (1976). The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 6.  via TUMBLR USER violentwavesofemotion’s POST. 

[seolf]

It’s not ‘natural’ to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little–have few verbal means. Eloquence–thinking in words–is a byproduct of solitude, deracination, a heightened painful individuality. In groups, it's more natural to sign, to dance, to pray: given, rather than invented (individual) speech.

Sontag, Susan. (1976). As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980. †401. via TUMBLR USER the-book-diaries’ TEXT.

[seolf]

There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich. (1878). Menschliches, Allzumenschliches: Ein Buch für freie Geister. Vol. I, §517. via TUMBLR USER dailynietzsche’s TEXT.

[seolf]

[V]iolence does not consist so much in injuring and annihilating persons as in interrupting their continuity, making them play roles in which they no longer recognize themselves, making them betray not only commitments but their own substance, making them carry out actions that will destroy every possibility for action.

Lévinas, Emmanuel. (1979). Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority. via TUMBLR USER hours’ TEXT.

[seolf]

Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilization. Its people lose the meaning of their lives, their social organization disintegrates, and they themselves morally decay. We are now in the same condition. But we have never really understood what we have lost … We have stripped all things of their mystery and luminosity; nothing is holy any longer.

Jung. (1964). Approaching the unconscious. In Man and his symbols.