Letters to Yourself :
Eros speaks thru image, logos thru word. The printed word is a pale reflection of the sort of image the unconscious eros produces for the conscious mind to consume. But if logos has its pale image to vaguely reflect the image-making machine that is the uncosncious psyche, what pale “word” does the unconscious psyche contain to represent human consciousness? A: ego. “We”, our conscious mind, is surrounded by the uncosncious psyche which produced it. Horus sits on the lap of Isis, Jesus on the lap of Mary, the bishop on the “cathedra”, the king on the throne. It’s the same image of consciousness floating on the lotus flower of the unconscious — “turtles all the way down”. It’s hubris to imagine the uncosncious as “sub”, it’s just as often “supra” - consciousness. Why did you pick this topic to discuss? hint: the unconscious “seeded” the idea to you, your consicousness picked up in it, discovered aspects it still did not know, and then the unconscious supplied answers to its own question. That’s how Isis and Horus, Mary and Jesus, Cathedral and bishop, throne and king, unconscious and conscious, image and word, work, paycholigically.
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