To Have or to Be ? : Reactions to a flower
"For Goethe the flower is so much alive that it speaks and warns him; and he solves the problem differently from either Tennyson or Basho."
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InLibroVeritas
6 févr. 20214 min de lecture
Shakespeare's The Tempest : A Jungian Interpretation
"The Tempest investigates marriage, love, culture. It is symbolic of man’s rational higher instincts versus his animal natural tendencies."
InLibroVeritas
5 févr. 20215 min de lecture
Erich Fromm : Escape from Freedom
"Whether or not we are aware of it, there is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves."
InLibroVeritas
23 janv. 20214 min de lecture
The Goddess as Cat
Statue of the Goddess Bastet, 26th Dynasty, Egypt "It is in Ancient Egypt where the cat flourished..."
InLibroVeritas
17 janv. 20214 min de lecture
Dürer's Melencolia : The "Gateway to Heaven"
"The Dürer coat-of-arms is both an ideogram for “Gateway in Heaven” and a rebus for “I engrave the gateway”..."
InLibroVeritas
16 janv. 20217 min de lecture
The "Dinner Parties" of Immanuel Kant
"Up to this period it had been his custom to dine at a table d'hôte. But he now began to keep house himself..."
InLibroVeritas
11 janv. 20214 min de lecture
The Solitude of Descartes
"Men ... ought to make the search after wisdom their principal care ; for wisdom is the true nourishment of the mind." Descartes
InLibroVeritas
9 janv. 20214 min de lecture
The Solitude of Leopardi
"Perhaps no one of all the men of genius who have lived in recent times has had so lonely a soul and led so lonely a life as Leopardi."
InLibroVeritas
1 janv. 20211 min de lecture
"On My Painting", by Max Beckmann
[Extracts] “Art is the quest of our self that drives us along the eternal and never-ending journey we must all make.”
― Max Beckmann
InLibroVeritas
26 déc. 20206 min de lecture
The World of Chekhov's Plays
"A group of pleasant people in idyllic surroundings, hopelessly at odds with themselves and with one another."
InLibroVeritas
18 déc. 20204 min de lecture
Carl Jung et le Processus d'Individuation
“Ma vie est l'histoire d'un inconscient qui a accompli sa propre réalisation.”
C. G. Jung
InLibroVeritas
9 déc. 20205 min de lecture
Giacomo Leopardi: Panegyric of Birds
[Essay] "Birds are naturally the most joyful creatures in the world...."
InLibroVeritas
8 déc. 20209 min de lecture
Giacomo Leopardi : Happiness and the Modern Man
"Our regeneration depends on an 'ultraphilosophy' that brings us closer to nature by exploring the entirety and the interior of things."
InLibroVeritas
4 déc. 20205 min de lecture
Thomas Carlyle : On the Choice of Books
"After you have done with all your classes, the next thing is a collection of books, a great library of good books."
InLibroVeritas
30 nov. 202010 min de lecture
The Pessoa Syndrome
"One of my mental complications — horrible beyond words — is a fear of insanity, which itself is insanity."
InLibroVeritas
30 nov. 20207 min de lecture
Pessoa in Durban : The Making of a Poet
”What one takes from this biography is a sense of a man who wanted simultaneously to be no one and to be everyone."
InLibroVeritas
19 nov. 20209 min de lecture
A Vision or a Waking Dream : Insomniac Literature
[Essay] "If one were to compile a list of modernist authors, ... chances are quite good that the authors selected would be insomniacs."
InLibroVeritas
17 nov. 20209 min de lecture
Hermann Hesse's Gertrud : Overcoming Despair
"While Hesse recognized that ideas of degeneration existed during this period, he warned the reader not to yield to despair."
InLibroVeritas
16 nov. 20206 min de lecture
Karl Jaspers : The "Psychopathology" of Genius
“Is illness a prerequisite for the deepest insights ? Kierkegaard, Nietzsche ? Hölderlin ?”
InLibroVeritas
12 nov. 20208 min de lecture
Auguste Rodin on Art and Literature
[Book] "Today, mankind believes itself able to do without Art. It does not wish to meditate, to contemplate, to dream..."
InLibroVeritas
12 nov. 20207 min de lecture
Dostoevsky : Freedom in a Dead House
"In 1860, Dostoevsky began to formally write about his prison experience in a serial work he called Notes from a Dead House."
InLibroVeritas
11 nov. 20208 min de lecture
Carl Jung's Persona : Behind the Mask
"One could say .. that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is." Jung
InLibroVeritas
10 nov. 20205 min de lecture
Arthur Rimbaud : The Mystic Way
[Essay] "The aim of this essay is to make the mystical, or contemplative elements of Rimbaud's life and poetry clear."
InLibroVeritas
1 nov. 20207 min de lecture
Francis Bacon and Montaigne : A Comparison
"A Comparison of the Subject Matter and Thought of Montaigne's and Bacon's Essays "
Irène de Palacio
il y a 19 heures
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