Bion, W.R., Cogitations. Edited by Francesca Bion. London: Karnac Books (1992), pp. 226-41 [Undated] Tower of Babel: possibility of using a racial myth Can we, at such a crisis as this, fall back on a racial…
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Τα ενδιαφέροντα
Плодотворно было бы прослѣдить связи между понятіемъ language of achievement у В.Р. Біона и контръ/суггестивной (первая фраза – не сообщеніе, а приказъ; человѣкъ – единственное животное, способное справляться съ абсурдомъ и склонное къ массовому истребленію…
Glenn Magee: more on complete speech & Hegel vs. propositional / predicative philosophy
Unlike “picture-thinking” – myth, art, etc. — Hegel’s speculation involves the use of concepts, ideas, or universals. Here, however, the dissimilarity ends, for although the matter of Hegel’s philosophy — its employment of concepts rather…
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Ioan Culianu on phantasia
On the other hand, the body opens up to the soul a window to the world through the five sensory organs whose messages go to the same cardiac apparatus which now is engaged in codifying…
Mircea Eliade on temptations
· C.-H. Rocquet · You spoke of temptations. […] In what sense do you mean that you were “tempted” during your anamnesis as a historian of religions? · M. Eliade · When you grasp the coherence, and…
Glenn Magee on complete speech
Another parallel between Hermeticism and Hegel concerns the initiation process through which the intuitive portion of the intellect is trained to see the Reason inherent in the world. As Fowden notes, Hermetic initiation seems to…
Лѣсные жители
Long ago, before the security of modern times, Koyukon people occasionally ran perilously short of food in their remote camps. Sinking toward death from starvation, people would sometimes resort to the almost unthinkable desperation of…
Jeffrey Kripal on the translation model
– Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (2011) Edward Kelly has highlighted another problem inherent in the transmission metaphor: it can imply a more or less perfect one-to-one communication, as in a…
Jeffrey Kripal (& Bertrand Méheust) on the guardians of the threshold, concepts butoirs, cultural shock zones, etc.
– Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (2011) Historians of psychology generally acknowledge Puységur’s role in “the discovery of the unconscious,” but they usually relegate this role to a subordinate one, to…
Jeffrey Kripal (& Bertrand Méheust) on la chose innommable & indetermination
– Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (2011) Moreover, and more bizarrely still, they [UFOs. – P.] are mischievously omnipotent in their ability to show themselves to us in quite outrageous ways,…
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