1. Some of the material in this section is taken from the M.A. thesis of the author's sponsee, Deborah Zeff.
(page 244)
2. For the remainder of this quote as applied to dreams of scientists, see 4.354.
3. Compare St John Perse: "The worst catastrophes of history are but seasonal rhythms in a vaster cycle of repetitions and renewals.
4. The remainder of this section is from the M.A. thesis of Deborah Zeff, a sponsee of the author.
5. Read (1960:37) also note that: (art) "is a unique mode of discourse, giving access to areas of knowledge closed to other types."
6. Literally the "term to which," i.e., the destination.
7. Literally the "term from which" i.e. the point of departure.
8.... as quoted by Whyte, L. L. The Unconscious Before Freud. New York: Basic Books, (1962:163).
9. Novelist John Gardner glimpses the relationship between art and the numinous in The Resurrection (1966:200-202).
10. The relativistic aspect of our clock time is also shown in the similar hypothetical experience of a space voyager who, traveling near the speed of light, finds that his clock has run slow compared with the passage of time on earth.
11. Inspection of Table VI, page 183 will reveal that the basic myths grow straight out of the basic archetypes.
12. Compare this with the developmental system of ethics proposed by W. G. Perry, Forms of Intellectual and Moral Development, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.
13. Note the similar symbolism indicated by the melting clock faces in Salvador Dali's art.
14. Let us suppose that an artist receives a parataxic (pictorial) comprehension of the triple illusion (of time, space, and personality) and tries to express this psychic tension through his art. How will he do it? He will portray some example of clock time being transcended, as above. He will illustrate some distortion of space as in perspective changes or emptiness. Finally he will indicate depersonalization and abstraction in outlining the human face and figure. But these developments are precisely those of modern surrealistic and abstract art.
15. See
note 28, page 173. The uruboros represents
primeval unity of sub-human man and nature in which he was "innocent" because
not yet self-conscious; (our OSC had not yet evolved). In trance and schizophrenia
we may see regression to this primitive undifferentiated state in which
the ancient archaic vestige may erupt when the ego defenses which keep
it in its place are removed.