Art and Soul

Peter Reginato

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

– George Bernard Shaw

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I still labored misguidedly under the spirit of this time, and thought differently about the human soul.

I thought and spoke much of the soul.

I knew many learned words for her, I had judged her and turned her into a scientific object.

I did not consider that my soul cannot be the object of my judgment and knowledge; much more are my judgment and knowledge the objects of my soul.

Therefore the spirit of the depths forced me to speak to my soul, to call upon her as a living and self-existing being.

I had to become aware that I had lost my soul.

…I had to accept that what I had previously called my soul was not at all my soul, but a dead system.

Hence I had to speak to my soul as to something far off and unknown, which did not exist through me, but through whom I existed.”

~ Carl Jung, The Red Book

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