"Hence Odin was called the Lord of the Gallows or the God of the Hanged, and he is represented sitting under a gallows tree. Indeed he is said to have been sacrificed to himself in the ordinary way, as we learn from the weird verses of the Havamal, in which the god describes how he acquired his divine power by learning the magic runes:
'I know that I hung on the windy tree
For nine whole nights,
Wounded with the spear, dedicated to Odin,
Myself to myself.'"
Note
I have not patience for the lazy rhetorician, who supposes that his art alone is sufficient to convict me of his opinion. Else he provide an equal measure of crude fact, he may as well be crying out to me the cries of an insane man and a fool. I could even do without his art entirely, and simply be presented with the facts, for it is such things that require great effort to acquire and assemble and no argument has any true substance unless it be derived from their ore. The false diamond crafted by the wit of man is not half so precious as the gem discovered deep in the heart of the earth.
Excerpt from "Answer to Job" by Carl G. Jung
"In confinio mortis and in the evening of a long and eventful life a man will see immense vistas of time stretching out before him. Such a man no longer lives in the everyday world and in the vicissitudes of personal relationships, but in the sight of many aeons and in the movement of ideas as they pass from century to century."
Self-Psychoanalysis
Self-Psychoanalysis
Daniel Ebling
Prologue
First, it may be necessary to first peruse this post in order to understand some of the terminology I employ here.
My purpose herein is to describe an observational paradigm I employ in the analysis of my own psychic structure. This paradigm can be briefly defined as a consideration of Higher-level Conscious Ego Functions. I define a function as a psychic object that meets the following conditions:
Daniel Ebling
Prologue
First, it may be necessary to first peruse this post in order to understand some of the terminology I employ here.
My purpose herein is to describe an observational paradigm I employ in the analysis of my own psychic structure. This paradigm can be briefly defined as a consideration of Higher-level Conscious Ego Functions. I define a function as a psychic object that meets the following conditions:
- It is comprised of a finite set of identities.
- It is applicable to a finite scope determined by a finite set of instigating parameters.
- It is unique among other psychic contents.
- It defines a unique psychic paradigm.
- It is a psychic mechanism such that an unresolved psychic object, following exposure to the function, will emerge resolved (i.e. the finite set of identities that comprise the unresolved psychic object will be appended by an identity representing a solution to the problem they represent).
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