Archetypal Imagination: Glimpses of the Gods in Life and Art (Studies in Imagination) Review
Archetypal Imagination: Glimpses of the Gods in Life and Art (Studies in Imagination) Overview
Here is a truly unique book about freeing psychology's imagination--and our own--from the dead weight of unconscious assumptions about the soul. Whether we think of the soul in terms of science or medicine, behavior or inner development, we are all accustomed to thinking of soul in an individual context, as something personal.
Noel Cobb asks us to reconsider the soul from a truly transpersonal perspective, as a cultural and universal human phenomenon.
Noel Cobb shows us how to see the world as a record of the soul's struggles to awaken, to view the world as the soul's poetry. Beauty, love, and creativity are instincts of the soul just as sexuality and hunger are the body's instincts. Cobb praises the value and nobility of the imagination, and, instead of the usual masters of psychology, our exemplars here are artists and mystics of the Western tradition: Dante, Rumi, Rilke, Munch, Lorca, Schumann, and Tarkovsky.
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