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Eros and Psyche (3)
“Love sets up resonances in the deepest abysses of our being. It is a lightning flash of the eternal within the flow of time.” Aldo Carutenuto, Eros and Pathos: Shades of Love and Suffering Butterflies are very popular funerary motifs. … Continue reading
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Eros and Psyche (2)
The story of Psyche and Eros is a tale of soul-making and deep transformation. As Elisabeth Eowyn Nelson, author of Psyche’s Knife, put it: “Just as Psyche’s fate is entwined with Eros, the soul’s fate is always erotic. We work … Continue reading
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Tagged Apuleius, archetypes, child archetype, divine child, Eros and Psyche, Greek myth, Greek mythology, individuation, Jung, knife, myth, Psyche’s Knife, symbolism, symbols, The Golden Ass
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