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Episode 74: A Luminous Parasite: Jung on Art, Part Two

Episode 74: A Luminous Parasite: Jung on Art, Part Two

FromWeird Studies


Episode 74: A Luminous Parasite: Jung on Art, Part Two

FromWeird Studies

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Length:
71 minutes
Released:
May 27, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this second part of their exploration of C. G. Jung's essay "On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry," JF and Phil try to discern the psychological and metaphysical implications of the great Swiss psychologist's theory of art. For one, this involves discussing what Jung meant by archetypes, and how these relate to the artists who bring them forth in artistic works. This in turn leads to a discussion of the emergent artwork as an "autonomous complex," that is, as a self-moving spirit that requires the artist merely as a conduit for its manifestation in human -- and cosmic -- history.
REFERENCES
Carl Gustav Jung, "On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry" (http://www.studiocleo.com/librarie/jung/essay.html)
Arthur Machen, "Hieroglyphics: A Note Upon Ecstasy" (https://archive.org/details/hieroglyphicsnot00mach)
Rick Riordan, [Percy Jackson & the Olympians](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PercyJackson%26theOlympians) series of novels
Robert Altman (director), Nashville (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073440/)
Homer, The Odyssey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey)
Jacques Offenbach, [The Tales of Hoffmann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheTalesofHoffmann)_
E. T. A. Hoffmann, "The Sandman" (http://art3idea.psu.edu/metalepsis/texts/sandman.pdf)
David Lynch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lynch), American filmmaker (the Dionysian!)
Stanley Kubrick (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick), American filmmaker (the Apollonian!)
Richard Wagner's idea of Gesamtkunstwerk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesamtkunstwerk)
William S. Burroughs, [Naked Lunch ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NakedLunch)_
Johannes Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance (https://www.nga.gov/collection/highlights/vermeer-woman-holding-a-balance.html), and JF's analysis (https://www.metapsychosis.com/consciousness-in-the-aesthetic-imagination/) thereof
Lisa Ruddick, "When Nothing is Cool" (https://thepointmag.com/criticism/when-nothing-is-cool/)
Weird Studies episode 5 (https://www.weirdstudies.com/5): Reading Lisa Ruddick's "When Nothing is Cool"
Released:
May 27, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality."