“The
art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.”
C.G. Jung
Kafka's
short story The Next Village illustrates two aspects of the cycle, or the
stages, of life - the experience and the memory.
I
am grateful to Adam Kościuk and Karol Domański who have prepared and edited
this video, as always in the most wonderful way. (The video can also be watched with Polish subtitles here).
Topics
explored in the book The Cycle of Life include:
I. The Journey
Stages
and Seasons
Jung’s Stages of Life
All the World’s a Stage, and a Stage of Life
Being on the Way—A Way of Being
Hermes
and the Journey: Being on the Way
The
Crossroads
II.
The Child
The
Child in the Mirror
Psychotherapy and Childhood
The Divine Child
From Divine to Human
Eros, Psyche and Pleasure
III.
The Puer and the Puella
Between Shame and Fear
Wine, Spirit and Fire
Prometheus—the Thoughtful Thief
IV.
The Adult
King on Earth
Boundaries of Reality
Celestial Jerusalem—Terrestrial Jerusalem
The King who Refuses to Die
The Dried-up Earth
The Limping Ego
The Empty Shell
V.
i. The Senex
V.
ii. Homage to Sophocles
V.
iii. The Last Chapter: Self and Meaning
Ancestral Roots
An Oak and an Acorn
We Are All Beggars, Are We Not?
The Cycle of Life is available on Amazon, Fisher King Press, and other
book sellers.
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