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| black sun (sold, private collection) |
| in the year of the flood 30X40 acrylic on canvas |
| when even shadows burn 30X40 acrylic on canvas |
| remote ways (sold, private collection) |
| these black shores 36X48 acrylic |
| three days 30X40 acrylic on canvas |
| place of the jugglers 54X54 acrylic on canvas (sold, private collection) |
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| this imminent heat* 24X30 acrylic (sold, private collection) |
Here, I am working toward a
psychology of soul,
based in a psychology of image.
(the interest of depth
psychology) is in the
unconscious levels of the
psyche.
(Archetypes) tend to be
metaphors rather than things.
We find ourselves less able to
say what an archetype is
literally and more inclined to
describe them in images.
Let us imagine
archetypes as the deepest
patterns of psychic functioning,
roots of the soul governing
perspectives we have of
ourselves and the world.
All ways of speaking of
archetypes are translations from
one metaphor or another. Even
expressions of science and logic
are no less metaphorical than
an image which presents
archetypes as root ideas, psychic
organs, figures of myth, typical
styles of existence, or dominant
fantasies governing
consciousness.
(of archetypes) emotional
possessive effect, their
bedazzlement of consciousness
so it becomes blind to its own
stance
…an archetype is best
comparable with a god.
James Hillman,
(re-visioning psychology, xi, xii—xiv)
psychology of soul,
based in a psychology of image.
(the interest of depth
psychology) is in the
unconscious levels of the
psyche.
(Archetypes) tend to be
metaphors rather than things.
We find ourselves less able to
say what an archetype is
literally and more inclined to
describe them in images.
Let us imagine
archetypes as the deepest
patterns of psychic functioning,
roots of the soul governing
perspectives we have of
ourselves and the world.
All ways of speaking of
archetypes are translations from
one metaphor or another. Even
expressions of science and logic
are no less metaphorical than
an image which presents
archetypes as root ideas, psychic
organs, figures of myth, typical
styles of existence, or dominant
fantasies governing
consciousness.
(of archetypes) emotional
possessive effect, their
bedazzlement of consciousness
so it becomes blind to its own
stance
…an archetype is best
comparable with a god.
James Hillman,
(re-visioning psychology, xi, xii—xiv)
*collaboration with Daniel Ceglinski
BRIAN BURRIS: CODEX, ARCHETYPE, and SOUL |
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