#psychoanalytics

[whentheynyan]

To be human means to feel inferior.

[sphinxs-riddle]

Look into your depths, pray to your depths, waken the dead

Carl Jung, Red Book

[whentheynyan]

The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom.

[whentheynyan]

We learn in friendship to look with the eyes of another person, to listen with her ears, and to feel with her heart.

[whentheynyan]

The goal of all life is death.

[sphinxs-riddle]

The mandala is an archetypal image whose occurrence is attested throughout the ages. It signifies the wholeness of the Self. This circular image represents the wholeness of the psychic ground or, to put it in mythic terms, the divinity incarnate in man. 

-Carl Jung 

[theunit73]

August Natterer Meine Augen zur Zeit der Erscheinungen

[quotesfromall]

Fear of falling for a woman apparently represents in this thinking both a fear of heterosexuality and a dread of one of its potential consequences, pregnancy, and yet it is precisely the motion of falling that Freud takes as constitutive of female homosexuality. The theoretical problem that insistently poses itself to any reader trying to make sense of Freud's often incoherent writings on female homosexuality is the question of what a woman's homosexual identity formation has to do with maternity,

Diana Fuss, Fear of a Queer Planet