The Greek Perfection of Tragedy

"But it is important to recognize the crucial twist Jung's psychology gave to the eminence of the gods. They have been interiorized into pathology. Their myths live in our behaviors, irrepressibly demanding recognition and observances. They bear new names borrowed from the text books of psychiatry and abnormal psychology. Their refuge, no longer the alter and temple fanum, the side of oracle and mystery cult, instead they inhabit the interiority of the psyche, where they make themselves very present indeed, as the powers in the background of the soul's infirmities. Since the repressed returns in the strangely inventive form of symptoms. After all, symptoms are extraordinary inventions. The gods are indeed present, whether invoked or not, right on the corner of 42nd street."
James Hillman




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