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[279] The first men were made from earth or clay. The Latin lutum, which really means ‘mud,’ also had the metaphorical meaning of ‘filth.’ ...
And those who wanders and seeks treasures hard to attain, uses the grumus merdae as monuments, later replaced by stone monuments.
...This is wild.

[278] "she had smeared herself with excrement from head to foot for my reception, and cried out laughingly: “How do you like me now?” She had never done this before; it was obviously a gesture intended for my benefit."
A case makes me totally speechless.....god....

[272] "Mother complexes are extremely common in US and often very pronounced, probably because of the strong maternal influence in the home and the social position of women generally... So, many US women develop their masculine side, then compensated in the unconscious by an exquisitely fem instinct, symbolized by Sphinx."

[267] "I have frequently observed in the analysis of Americans that the inferior side of the personality, the “shadow,”14 is represented by a Negro or an Indian, whereas in the dream of a European it would be represented by a somewhat shady individual of his own kind. These representatives of the so-called “lower races” stand for the inferior personality component of the man."

[265] ....Echidna is like the goddess Nv Wa by her look, though the latter is not a mother of all terror, but a helpful being....wait. I will check.
"With this dog, her own son, Echidna incestuously begat the Sphinx. This should be sufficient to characterize the complex whose symbol is the Sphinx...The riddle of the Sphinx was herself—the terrible mother-imago, which Oedipus would not take as a warning."

[260] "therefore, nothing intrinsically absurd about the expectation that “God” will take over the activity and spontaneity of the conscious mind, for the primordial images are quite capable of doing precisely this."

[259] "extraversion and introversion, are also to a large extent the normal and appropriate ways of reacting to complexes—extraversion as a means of escaping from the complex into reality, introversion as a means of detaching oneself from external reality through the complex."

[259] "archetypal contents of the (collective) unconscious, the archaic heritage of humanity, the legacy left behind by all differentiation and development and bestowed upon all men like sunlight and air...common to all...to the mother of humanity, to the psyche... the feeling of being part of the whole."

[259] "The religious figure cannot be a mere man, for it has to represent what it actually is, namely the totality of all those primordial images which express the “extraordinarily potent,” always and everywhere.What we seek in visible human form is not man, but the superman, the hero or god, that quasi-human being who symbolizes the ideas, forms, and forces which grip and mould the soul."

[259] "Man as an individual is a very suspicious phenomenon whose right to exist could be questioned by the biologist, since from that point of view he is significant only as a collective creature or as a particle in the mass.The cultural point of view gives man a meaning apart from the mass, and this, in the course of centuries, led to the development of personality and the cult of the hero."

[258] "The essence of conscious processes is adaptation, which takes place in a series of particulars. The unconscious, on the other hand, is universal: it not only binds individuals together into a nation or race, but unites them with the men of the past and with their psychology."

[258] "Individuality is one of those conditioned factors which are greatly overrated on account of their practical importance; it does not come into the category of those self-evident, universal truths upon which a science must be founded..."

[258] "Individuality is one of those conditioned factors which are greatly overrated on account of their practical importance; it does not come into the category of those self-evident, universal truths upon which a science must be founded..."

[258] "We know that however much individuals differ from one another in the content of their conscious minds, they become all the more alike when regarded from the standpoint of the unconscious...The unconscious consists, among other things, of remnants of the undifferentiated archaic psyche, including its animal stages. "

[254] "We are thus forced to conclude that the external object simply cannot be loved, because an overwhelming proportion of the libido prefers an internal object that rises up from the unconscious as a substitute for the missing reality."

[254] "The passive state described above does not fit in with the idea of an external obstacle, but, through its very acquiescence, points to a tendency that scorns real solutions and prefers a fantastic substitute."

[254] The symptom, "produces a flood of fantasies which could best be described as plans to overcome the obstacle: ideas that toy with solutions, perhaps even some hard thinking which might lead to anything rather than a hypnagogic poem."

[253] La Rchefoucauld on idlenss
"Of all the Passions we are exposed to, none is more concealed from our Knowledge than Idleness. It is the most violent, and the most mischievous of any, and yet at the same time we are never sensible of its Violence, and the damage we sustain by it is very seldom seen."
This dangerous passion is what lies hidden beneath the hazardous mask of incest, the Terrible Mother in disguise.

[251] "It is rather the inability to love which robs a person of these opportunities. The world is empty only to him who does not know how to direct his libido towards things and people, and to render them alive and beautiful. What compels us to create a substitute from within ourselves is not an external lack, but our own inability to include anything outside ourselves in our love."

[250] "Anyone who knows the primitive’s fear of innovations and their unforeseen consequences can imagine the uncertainty and uneasy conscience which such a discovery would arouse. This primordial experience finds an echo in the widespread motif of robbery (sun-cattle of Geryon, apples of the Hesperides, herb of immortality)." Think about the golden bough, steal and kill, and get.

[250] "In this way man wrested a secret from nature—the Promethean theft of fire. He made himself guilty of an unlawful intervention, incorporating a fragment of the age-old unconscious into the darkness of his mind. With this theft he appropriated something precious and offended against the gods."

[248] "On the other hand incorrect performance and use of the rite cause a retrograde movement of the libido, a regression which threatens to reproduce the earlier, instinctual, and unconscious state.The danger lies in those well-known “perils of the soul”—a splitting of the personality (“loss of a soul”) and reduction of consciousness, both of which automatically increase the power of the unconscious."

[248] "Speech and fire-making represent primitive man’s victory over his brutish unconsciousness and subsequently became powerful magical devices for overcoming the ever-present “daemonic” forces lurking in the unconscious.Both these applications of libido require attention, concentration, and inner discipline, thereby facilitating a further development of consciousness."

[248] "Legend always conceives the discovery of fire as a robbery, and to that extent it is akin to the widespread motif of the “treasure hard to attain.” (mostly by cunning) fire-making is an element in a religious mystery, which testifies to its symbolical and ambiguous character."

[245] "Agni is the sacrificial flame, the sacrificer and the sacrificed. Just as Christ left behind his redeeming blood, a true ϕάρμακον ἀθανασίας, in the wine, so Agni is the soma, the holy drink of inspiration, the mead of immortality...The “somatic” significance of Agni has its parallel in the Christian interpretation of the Eucharistic Blood as the body of Christ."

[242] "Eros is “the intermediary between mortals and immortals … a mighty daemon, dear Socrates; for everything daemonic is the intermediary between God and man.”...“interpret and convey messages..." while in some other old religions, "fire is the messenger of the gods."

[237] "two most important discoveries which distinguish man from all other living beings, namely speech and the use of fire, should have a common psychic background.Both are products of psychic energy, of libido or mana. "
eg. "the word Tejas, describes the psychological situation covered by the word “libido”...subjective intensity."

[237] "The fusion of sound, speech, light, and fire is expressed in an almost physiological way in the phenomenon of “colour-hearing,” i.e., the perception of the tonal quality of colours and the chromatic quality of musical tones...preconscious identity between them: the two phenomena have something in common despite their real differences. "

[231-235] "This association of mouth, fire, and speech is not as strange as it would seem: we speak of a man being “fired” or “inflamed” by another’s words, of a “fiery” speech, “burning words,” etc."
Sound, Sing (Speech) - Light, Start (Fire)

[226] "The regression is always attended by certain difficulties because the energy clings with specific force to its object, and on being changed from one form carries something of its previous character into the next form... not a sex acts any longer."