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The Struggle to Create
…whether the farmer cultivates wheat or the painter paints a picture, man unites with the world in the process of creation. This, however, applies only to productive work, for the work in which I design, produce, I see the result of my labor.
But in the modern work process, the employee, ring of an endless chain, is an appendix of the machine or of the bureaucratic organization.
Erich Fromm,
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Edinger wanted to try and draw detailed maps of the anatomy of the psyche and Hillman went for the imagination and the poetic basis of the mind.
— Jon Wilson
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The child is born a philosopher, asks questions, listens, works out answers; then comes the adult with his: “you can’t understand”, “it’s just like that”, “when you grow up you’ll understand”, “listen to what I say because I’m older”, “shut up when adults speak,” “it’s like that, it’s always been like that”, “your job is to do well at school “. Slowly slowly extinguishes the flame and the living child becomes a dead adult.
— Egon Schiele
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An old idea suggests that each person comes to life at a time when they have something to give to the world…As an old proverb makes clear, “Whoever remains narrow of vision cannot be big of…
