The Possibility of an Island
‘No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of a Continent, a part of the main.’ - John Donne: Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (Meditation XVII)
‘One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.’ - C.G.Jung: Integrating the Shadow
‘In The Interpretation of Dreams Freud argued that the unconscious is partly organised according to ‘clusters of ideas’. The unconscious is a matrix that does clearly observe differences between areas of meaning.’ - Christopher Bollas: The Evocative Object World
‘It is dusk that the most interesting things occur, for that is when simple differences fade away. I could live in the everlasting dusk.’ - Olga Tokarczuk: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead