Free will appears as that which is not chained, as that which is deliberate; it is the infinitely free, roaming, the mind. Destiny, however, is a necessity if we do not want to believe that world history is made up of dream-like meanderings, that the unspeakable pain of humanity is a fidget of the imagination... . Destiny is the infinite force of resistance against free will, fee will without destiny is... inconceivable... since, after all, a certain quality or trait is always the product of ...| ahistoryofthepresentananthology.blogspot.com
From Memories, Dreams, Reflections, 1954:"Freud was able to interpret the dreams I was then having [on their trip to the USA in 1909] only incompletely or not at all. They were dreams with collective contents, containing, a great deal of symbolic material. One in particular was important to me, for it led me for the first time to the concept of the 'collective unconscious'... .""This was| Madness and Civilization, Cosmos and History: An Anthology
"...'my god, this thing is what it seems to be, its a galactic intelligence, its a billion years old, its touched ten million worlds, it knows the history of a hundred and fifty thousand civilizations, its beyond your possibility of conceiving, and why it is communicating with an organic atom like yourself is not entirely clear.'""People are so alienated from their own soul that| Madness and Civilization, Cosmos and History: An Anthology
"All around us, to right and left, in front and behind, above and below, we have only to go a little beyond the frontier of sensible appearances in order to see the divine welling up and showing through. But it is not only close to us, in front of us, that the divine presence has revealed itself. It has sprung up universally, and we find ourselves so surrounded and transfixed by it, that| Madness and Civilization, Cosmos and History: An Anthology
A selection from David Tacey's Edge of the Sacred: Jung, Psyche, Earth (1995). Note: see here for a selection from Lawrence and Jung's writings on the 'New World'.| Madness and Civilization, Cosmos and History: An Anthology
A selection from Philip K. Dick's Exegesis, 1974-1982. "I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist; my novel and story-writing ability is employed as a means to formulate my perception. The core of my writing is not art but truth. Thus what I tell is the truth, yet I can do nothing to alleviate it, either by deed or explanation. Yet this seems somehow to help a certain kind of| Madness and Civilization, Cosmos and History: An Anthology
From the 1974 Rolling Stones article featuring the author. A selection from Philip Kindred Dicks VALIS, 1982. Late at night, stoned and drunk, glancing at VALIS: it is highly experimental: absolutely unofficial, anti-official junk art (i.e., protest art); made of the garbage of the vernacular, informal in structure... : it speaks for and in the language of, the fashion of, a| Madness and Civilization, Cosmos and History: An Anthology
A selection from Carlos Martyn's The Life and Times of Martin Luther, 1866. Besides his biography of Luther, Martyn wrote A History of the Reformation, The Pilgrim Fathers of New England: A History, and A History of the English Puritans. Martyn's history of the Luther's Reformation is a book which could only have been written by an American (in the 'Land of the Pilgrims'), and that is enough to| Madness and Civilization, Cosmos and History: An Anthology
Giorgio de Chirico, The Seer, 1915 A selection from Louis Sass's Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought (1992).[Work in Progress] Prologue: The Sleep of ReasonThe madman is a protean figure in the Western imagination... . He has been thought of as a wildman and a beast, as a child and a simpleton, as a waking dreamer, as a prophet in the grip| Madness and Civilization, Cosmos and History: An Anthology
'The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man' by Carl Jung (1931) A selection from a lecture given by Carl Jung in Cologne in 1933 titled The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man. ...the collective unconscious [is] the sea upon which the ego rides like a ship. [...] Just as the sea stretches its broad tongues between the continents and laps them round like islands, so our| Madness and Civilization, Cosmos and History: An Anthology
A selection from The Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Class Employed in the Cotton Manufacture in Manchester by James Kay Shuttleworth, 1832.James Kay-Shuttleworth was a physician and economist and founder of the Manchester Statistical Society, "the first organisation in Britain to study social problems systematically and to collect statistics for social purposes. In 1834 it was the| Madness and Civilization, Cosmos and History: An Anthology
[Forthcoming]A selection from Mumford's The City in History published in 1961. “This metropolitan world, then, is a world where flesh and blood is less real than paper and ink and celluloid. It is a world where the great masses of people, unable to have direct contact with more satisfying means of living, take life vicariously, as readers, spectators, passive observers: a world where people| Madness and Civilization, Cosmos and History: An Anthology
A selection from Lewis Mumford's Technics and Civilization, 1934. ObjectivesDuring the last thousand years the material basis and the cultural forms of Western Civilization have been profoundly modified by the development of the machine. While people often call our period the "Machine Age," very few have... any clear notion as to its origins. Popular historians usually date the great| Madness and Civilization, Cosmos and History: An Anthology
A selection from Freud's essay The Uncanny, 1919. I ...the “uncanny” is that class of the terrifying which leads back to something long known to us, once very familiar. How this is possible, in what circumstances the familiar can become uncanny and frightening, I shall show in what follows.The German word unheimlich [Throughout this paper “uncanny” is used as the English translation of “| Madness and Civilization, Cosmos and History: An Anthology
A selection from Civilization on Trial, a collection of essay's and lectures by Arnold Toynbee published in 1948. Note: for a selection from Arnold Toynbee's 12 Volume magnum opus 'A Study of History', see here. Preface The unity of outlook [in the essays collected in this volume] lies in the standpoint of a historian who sees the Universe and all that therein is... in irreversible movement| Madness and Civilization, Cosmos and History: An Anthology
I have a persisting sense that the novel sits uneasily in the Australian context, in the Australian landscape ... My impression is that the Australian bush has not been successfully transformed into a Western space fit for established models of writing. It is not a landscape that offers us easy grace, or immediate redemption: it does not have the flavour of settled, European or New World| Madness and Civilization, Cosmos and History: An Anthology
Friedrich Nietzsche - Hymnus an das Leben [Hymn of Life] A selection from the letters of Friedrich Nietzsche written between 1887 and 1889. [Forthcoming]| Madness and Civilization, Cosmos and History: An Anthology
Henry Kissinger in the Class of 1950 Harvard yearbook. A selection from Henry Kissinger's The Meaning of History: Reflections on Spengler, Toynbee and Kant, 1950. The Meaning of History was Kissinger's senior honors thesis at Harvard. According to Niall Furguson, it made history by being the longest honors thesis at Harvard. Kissinger's doctoral dissertation Peace, Legitimacy, and the| Madness and Civilization, Cosmos and History: An Anthology
A Selection from Koselleck's essay Modernity and the Planes of Historicity, 1981. 'Modernity and the Planes of Historicity' first appeared in a collection of essays with the title Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time published in German in 1979 (although the author claims that the essays were written in the 60's and 70's) under the section 'On the Relation of Past and| Madness and Civilization, Cosmos and History: An Anthology
A selection from Walter Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History, 1940.[Incomplete] A Klee painting named Angelus Novus [editors note: see below] shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward| Madness and Civilization, Cosmos and History: An Anthology
"To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives." Walter Benjamin. Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin died while fleeing the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Project (in German, Das Passagen-Werk) is a monumental ruin, meticulously constructed over the course of thirteen years—“the theater,” as| Madness and Civilization, Cosmos and History: An Anthology
A selection from Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, 1923. Kahlil Gibran came from Bsharri, a small town in what was then the Ottoman Empire but which is now part of Lebanon, and which is home to the last vestiges of the Forest of the Cedars of Lebanon which were used by the Egyptians, Phoneticians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, and others for ship building. Gibran moved to the U.S as a young| Madness and Civilization, Cosmos and History: An Anthology
A selection from Norman Mailer's The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster, 1957. "...it is tempting to describe the hipster in psychiatric terms as infantile, but the style of his infantilism is a sign of the times, he does not try to enforce his will on others, Napoleon-fashion, but contents himself with a magical omnipotence never disproved because never| Madness and Civilization, Cosmos and History: An Anthology
