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We Need Enchantment
“[Luchino] Visconti gave me back my life more times than I can recall. …He was the first artist I ever encountered who was also regal, both of carriage and of ancestry. Visconti had a nobility in his pursuit of art that I’ve never encountered in anyone else. …When I was at my most desperate — in person, by phone, by wire, by letter — he always calmly put me back into the position of postulant, talking about experiences we’ve shared, the prayer of art.”
— Tennessee Williams
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I was just reading Marie-Louise von Franz ‘Alchemical Active Imagination’ — like yesterday, sitting in a medical waiting room with Gwen, in Brighton — and in fact, the book is right next to me!
She wrote that ancient Alchemists split by introversion and extroversion personalities: the extroverts followed the “recipes,” and evolved into chemists and the introverts took the experiences and eventually emerged as depth psychologists.
— Rae Peterson
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Depth psychology rediscovered the soul and placed it at the centre of its explorations. Now it runs the risk of losing it again under pressure from academic psychology. Academic psychology, in its eagerness to be as scientific as physics, has one-sidedly chosen the outside, so that the soul no longer finds a place in the only field…
