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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 150
EAN num: 9781585442683
ISBN number: 1585442682
Label: Texas A&M University Press
Manufacturer: Texas A&M University Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 135
Printing Date: 2003-02
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'What we wish to know, and most desire, remains unknowable and lies beyond our grasp.' With these words, James Hollis leads readers to consider the nature of our human need for meaning in life and for connection to a world less limiting than our own. In The Archetypal Imagination, Hollis offers a lyrical Jungian appreciation of the archetypal imagination. He argues that without the human mind's ability to form energy-filled images that link us to worlds beyond our rational and emotional capacities, we would have neither culture nor spirituality. Drawing upon the work of poets and philosophers. Hollis shows the importance of depth experience, meaning, and connection to an 'other' world. The author draws upon the work of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, particularly his Duino Elegies, to elucidate the archetypal imagination in literary forms. To underscore the importance of incarnating depth experience, he also examines a series of paintings by Nancy Witt. With the power of the archetypal imagination available to all of us, we are invited to summon courage to take on the world anew and to risk a radical re-imagining of the larger possibilities of the world and of the self.
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I've read most everything that Hollis has written. His style is quite difficult, but most always worth while. The point he makes is normally deep and meaningful. Except this book. Either I just don't have the intelligence to find it, or the point is simply not there. This book just didn't come together.
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We live in a world devoid of transcendent meaning, and in that abyss we desperately seek a purpose for & the foundations of Life. Many embrace a rigid fundamentalist dogma, whether religious or ideological; others seek the illusory comfort of vague New Age nostrums; still others opt for the pursuit of power, or pleasure, or sensation, or mindless consumerism, or outright nihilism. Yet none of these instant answers proves satisfying in the long run.
What Hollis convincingly argues is that there is no real substitute for true meaning, grounded in the encounter with the immense forces of the Psyche. Material things aren't what we need, or infantilizing beliefs that swaddle rather than challenge us -- what we need is to go into the darkened abyss & grapple with the unanswerable questions, the unfathomable mysteries. He doesn't offer any guarantees of success, only the hard promise that the journey & effort are well worth it.
This book is an exploration of the roots & purposes of Myth. Not "myth" in the sense of falsehood, but in the sense of Meaning, a narrative or frame of reference that provides a personally satisfying framework for living. And by "personally satisfying," we're not talking about something that coddles & placates the ego. Far from it! A living myth doesn't shield us from the transcendent experience, it enables us to face it without being overwhelmed or destroyed by its immense power.
Hollis draws his examples from Art, showing how individual creators have forged living myths for themselves, myths which speak to us as well. They don't provide pat answers -- indeed, they may well leave us with even more questions -- but they do provide windows into a larger world, a world that enables us to live with suffering & despair & loss, perhaps even to become far more than what we are now.
If you want to grow, if you want more than a world of sound bites & factoids & superficial culture, this is an excellent place to start. Most highly recommended!
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This book is beautiful. It is nice to read a book where someone is saying something, not saying something someone else said.
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