| [[aker:Death|Ω]] p. xvi "By //soul// I mean, first of all, a perspective rather than a substance, a viewpoint toward things rather than a thing itself. This perspective is reflective; it mediates events and makes differences between ourselves and everything that happens. Between us and events, between the doer and the deed, there is a reflective moment - and soul-making means differentiating this middle ground." <fc green>What exactly does he mean by differentiating? ...is it simply to demarcate this middle ground between subject and object, between the doer and the deed? ...so this book is a work to define this territory that belongs to soul-making?</fc> \\ "In another attempt upon the idea of soul I suggested that the word refers to that unknown component which makes meaning possible, turns events into experiences, is communicated in love, and has a religious concern. These four qualifications I had already put forth some years ago;<fc red><sup>[[aker:books_and_literature:suicide_and_the_soul|4]]</sup></fc> I had begun to use the term freely, usually interchangeably with psyche (from Greek) and anima (from Latin). Now I am adding __three__ necessary modifications. \\ First, "soul" refers to the //deepening// of events into experiences; \\ second, the significance soul makes possible, whether in love or in religious concern, derives from its special //relation to death.// \\ And third, by "soul" I mean the imaginative possibility in our natures, the experiencing through reflective speculation, dream, image, and //fantasy// - that mode which recognizes all realities as primarily symbolic or metaphorical." <fc green>Underline mine. So basically, Soul is the ability for symbolic thinking.</fc> | [[:death|Ω]] p. xvi "By //soul// I mean, first of all, a perspective rather than a substance, a viewpoint toward things rather than a thing itself. This perspective is reflective; it mediates events and makes differences between ourselves and everything that happens. Between us and events, between the doer and the deed, there is a reflective moment - and soul-making means differentiating this middle ground." <fc green>What exactly does he mean by differentiating? ...is it simply to demarcate this middle ground between subject and object, between the doer and the deed? ...so this book is a work to define this territory that belongs to soul-making?</fc> \\ "In another attempt upon the idea of soul I suggested that the word refers to that unknown component which makes meaning possible, turns events into experiences, is communicated in love, and has a religious concern. These four qualifications I had already put forth some years ago;<fc red><sup>[[books_and_literature:suicide_and_the_soul|4]]</sup></fc> I had begun to use the term freely, usually interchangeably with psyche (from Greek) and anima (from Latin). Now I am adding __three__ necessary modifications. \\ First, "soul" refers to the //deepening// of events into experiences; \\ second, the significance soul makes possible, whether in love or in religious concern, derives from its special //relation to death.// \\ And third, by "soul" I mean the imaginative possibility in our natures, the experiencing through reflective speculation, dream, image, and //fantasy// - that mode which recognizes all realities as primarily symbolic or metaphorical." <fc green>Underline mine. So basically, Soul is the ability for symbolic thinking.</fc> |
| p. xvii "Everything we know and feel and every statement we make are all fantasy-based, that is, they derive from psychic images. ... Fantasy-images are both the raw materials and finished products of psyche, and they are the privileged mode of access to knowledge of soul. Nothing is more primary." <fc green>So without soul as the symbolic thinking principle there is no communication with psyche, with the Self, with the unconscious.</fc> | p. xvii "Everything we know and feel and every statement we make are all fantasy-based, that is, they derive from psychic images. ... Fantasy-images are both the raw materials and finished products of psyche, and they are the privileged mode of access to knowledge of soul. Nothing is more primary." <fc green>So without soul as the symbolic thinking principle there is no communication with psyche, with the Self, with the unconscious.</fc> |