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