Posted in A, tagged Aeneid, ancient, classics, history, latin, literature, myth, mythological, mythology, rome, verse on April 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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Aeneid An epic poem written in Latin by Vergil.
It is casts in mythic verse the journey and adventures of the Trojan hero Aeneas, who in ancient legend founded Rome. » Sibyl
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Posted in A, tagged Archetypal Image, archetype, art, collective unconscious, image, jung, literature, mind, music, numinous, Philosophy, psychiatry, psychology, symbols, unconscious on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Archetypal Image According to Carl Jung, the archetypal image is a representation of an underlying archetype.
The archetypal images symbolize and mediate to everyday consciousness the psychological power of the collective unconscious.
Through various modes of expression (e.g. works of art and architecture) mankind translates these hidden archetypal forces into the realm of human culture.
Some contemporary [...]
Posted in A, tagged Archetypal Image, archetype, art, collective unconscious, image, jung, literature, mind, music, numinous, Philosophy, psychiatry, psychology, symbols, unconscious on March 27, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Archetype A term used by the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung to indicate the psychological contents of a proposed collective unconscious.
For Jung the archetypes are inherited patterns encoded in the brain, universally shared by mankind.
Not unlike the gods and goddesses of ancient times, archetypes apparently have a psychic life of their own.
In fact, Jung often likens [...]
Posted in B, tagged bauls, folk music, hippies, india, literature, music, oral tradition, poems, poetry, song, tagore, tantra, verse, visva-bharati, w. bengal, west bengal on March 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Bauls Wandering devotional minstrels of West Bengal, India.
The Bauls belong to a longstanding bardic tradition that poetically glorifies God while rebuking worldly hypocrisy.
Many practice left hand tantra. Living off alms, they are the peace, love and freedom “hippies” of West Bengal.
Today their timeless songs may be heard on trains and at public fairs called melas.
The [...]
Posted in B, tagged authors, Burgess, clockwork orange, film, literature, movies, novels, satire, writers on February 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Burgess, Anthony (1917-94) British author of A Clockwork Orange (1962) the grisly and at times horrific tale of Alex, a gang leader of a group of depraved thugs in an equally although more subtly depraved society.
In Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation (1971) Alex is eventually abandoned and arrested as his gang buddies become corrupt Bobbies.
Reprogrammed through psychological image-association [...]
Posted in B, tagged authors, avante-garde, Burroughs, gay, homosexual, literature, writers on February 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Burroughs, William S. (1914-1997) Innovative author who kept company with Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac.
He once said:
Language is a virus…[words]…become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the image of the thing itself. » Source
Burrows was a gay ex-junkie who shot to stardom with his book, Naked [...]
Posted in B, tagged byron, literature, lords, poetry, verse on February 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Byron, George Gordon Noel (Lord, 1788-1824) The 6th baron of Rochdale, Byron was a London-born poet of Scottish decent, said to embody the romantic tradition in poetry.
While John Keats and Percy Shelley remain perhaps more popular and are usually regarded in the U.K. and North America as somewhat deeper, Byron is remembered for his effortless, effective rhyme.
In his verse [...]
Posted in C, tagged Candide, literature, parody, satire, Voltaire on February 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Candide Voltaire’s classic parody of 1759 which sharply criticizes the philosopher Leibniz’s view that God created the ‘best of all possible worlds.’
The character Dr. Pangloss is a mouthpiece for the Leibnizian view.
Pangloss holds fast to his beliefs despite undergoing many horrendous sufferings.
The American conductor Leonard Bernstein wrote the music for an operetta based on Voltaire’s work. [...]
Posted in C, tagged authors, chekhov, literature, russia on January 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Chekhov, Anton (1860-1904) Russian dramatist and short-story writer, born in Taganrog.
Chekhov began writing as a medical student. His first book of stories, published in 1886 was successful. His other works include The Seagull (Chayka, 1896), Uncle Vanya (Dyadya Vanya, 1900), The Three Sisters (Tri sestry, 1901), The Cherry Orchard (Vishnyovy sad, 1904) and a host [...]
Posted in D, tagged chaos, demented, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, evil, horror, lies, literature, oddball, psychopath, Robert Louis Stevenson, sociopath, strange, weird on December 16, 2007 | No Comments »
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Strange Case of This classic 1886 tale by Robert Louis Stevenson describes what later would be described as sociopathy. In the novel the once honorable and philanthropic Dr. Jekyll becomes absorbed with the problem of good and evil. To gain knowledge he divides his nature by drinking a concoction. [...]
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