The Grail Legend. http://www.amazon.com/Grail-Legend-Emma-Jung/dp/0691002371
The book explores the historic origin of the legend in both Welsh/Celtic and Christian legend. The legend appears to integrate 3 influences: the legends of the early Welsh/Celtic people who were driven into the hills by the Saxon invaders, the Christian legend of the grail and the stone covering the grave of Christ, and the major shift in Western consciousness regarding the role of women around the reign of Henry II and Eleanor of Acquitaine.
The story is about the heroic actions and adventures of the fool knight, Perceval, that are needed to heal the wounded Fisher King and revive his famine plagued kingdom. Much of the book explores all the images and multiple variations around this myth.
The legend would imply that in all men a wounded Self(Fisher King) limits and shuts off the powers and creativity of the archetypes and other unconscious forces.
The healed Fisher King is a strong Self, the king of the unconscious, who can navigate and attract unconscious forces and influences. The beautiful woman, the Anima, acts as a messenger between the ego consciousness and the unconscious.
The Grail is the site where the opposites are united, the personality becomes whole,the internal struggles against opposing forces within the self stops, and thus the healing of the King (Self) is at hand. Each of the psychological constructs: ego, consciousness, unconscious, archtype, shadow, anima, animus, Self, etc. are shown in the characters and various props/objects within the legend.
Students of the legends of King Arthur and the Round Table will find this to be a very scholarly study of the particular tale of Perceval and his search of the Holy Grail. The Round Table is connected to the two preceeding tables - the table where Christ held the Last Supper with his disciples and the table that becomes the Altar for the Holy Communion.
[ C B Collins Jr - Review of, ' The Grail Legend', by Emma Jung, and M L Von Franz]
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So, My cursory Analysis, is, just, one more, in, a long line, of, investigations.
THE WOUNDED KING, CORRESPONDS TO, THE, 'DEVIL', AND, THE, 'CHRIST', OF MEDIAEVAL THOUGHT.
THE 'ASTRAL' INDICATOR, IS, THE CONSTELLATION, 'CAPRICORNUS',[SEE PREVIOUS POSTINGS], OTHERWISE KNOWN AS, 'THE GOAT-FISH'.
WHO 'FISHES', IN ,THE 'RIVER'[ERADANUS] ? IT, IS, A 'SPLIT', SELF-IMAGO
[OF MEDIAEVAL THOUGHT], CHRETIEN, HAS, A 'SPLIT' PERSONALITY.
THE 'QUESTING BEAST?' TAKE, A LOOK, AGAIN, AT ,MY ,PART 5 , AND, PART 4, YOU WILL, PLAINLY SEE, THAT ,A 'FOX', A 'GIRAFFE', ETC, ARE, ALL, 'CONSTELLATIONS!
SO , IT, IS ,OBVIOUS, THE CONSTELLATION ,OF, SYMBOL[IN THE UNCONSCIOUS]
IS, 'REFLECTED', IN, THE PSYCHE.
JUST AS, IN, 'MOBY DICK',, AHAB'S,WOUND, HIS, 'STUMP',AND HIS, 'WANDERING UP AND DOWN, ABOUT THE EARTH',IS, MELVILLE'S,' UNCONSCIOUS ', INCLUSION, OF, HIS OWN, PERSONAL, FAMILY CIRCUMSTANCES, IE, HE HAD, A ,'MOTHER COMPLEX',
SO, CHRETIEN, TOO, AND MANY OTHERS,USE THE SAME SYMBOLISM[IN DIFFERENT 'FORM'],
TO COME ,TO TERMS, WITH, THE, 'SELF'.
The interesting thing, for me, is just how, this ancient tale, repeats itself, in modern times, in the Psyche of people, for the most part, totally unaware, of, the Symbolism.
The Movie, by, Mr Gilliam, brings, up, to date, the Psycho-Logic, implications of , LONELINESS.
DR.PARNASSUS, I, COULD, WRITE, A BOOK, ABOUT.'BUDDHA', IMAGERY, LOTUS, LADDERS,INFLATED, BALLOON TYPE,'MACHINES'..[SAME, AS ,LANG'S ,'METROPLIS']
AND SO, ON.
MR G, IF, YOU, EVER, READ, THIS...I, KNOW, EXACTLY, WHAT, YOU, WANTED, TO PORTRAY.
IT'S ,OK, I, AM ,NO,DOCTOR...I,AM, A TAXI-DRIVER...AND, I, KNOW, WHAT, HAPPENED, TO, YOU..I, CAN ,HELP, YOU..IF, YOU ,WANT.
The City [another 'Archetype'] replaces the 'Castle'. The, 'new God-imago', is TECHNOS. Modern man, in his concrete jungle, still strives, to connect, with the deeper part, of his own soul.
TECHNOS, has become, our, 'new God-idea', but, like all, 'Imago symbolism', it has, it's own, DUALITY.
A Radio announcer? can he influence the actions, of the Public? Can he be positive? or Negative? I certainly think so! Shock Jock? or, mere Puppet, of advertising Moguls? Technos! has us all , in it's Thrall!
The, 'Red Knight', is the 'Death instinct', of Freudian thought. It is inescapable.
The best we can do, is to learn, from our ancestors. LONELINESS IS THE GREATEST EVIL.
We now understand, that our own DNA, is derived from Reptilean/Avian, origins. So too, then, our own consciousness, from the same source. The Reptile was always in Eden, of that there is no doubt! so what happened to the Bird?..........
The book explores the historic origin of the legend in both Welsh/Celtic and Christian legend. The legend appears to integrate 3 influences: the legends of the early Welsh/Celtic people who were driven into the hills by the Saxon invaders, the Christian legend of the grail and the stone covering the grave of Christ, and the major shift in Western consciousness regarding the role of women around the reign of Henry II and Eleanor of Acquitaine.
The story is about the heroic actions and adventures of the fool knight, Perceval, that are needed to heal the wounded Fisher King and revive his famine plagued kingdom. Much of the book explores all the images and multiple variations around this myth.
The legend would imply that in all men a wounded Self(Fisher King) limits and shuts off the powers and creativity of the archetypes and other unconscious forces.
The healed Fisher King is a strong Self, the king of the unconscious, who can navigate and attract unconscious forces and influences. The beautiful woman, the Anima, acts as a messenger between the ego consciousness and the unconscious.
The Grail is the site where the opposites are united, the personality becomes whole,the internal struggles against opposing forces within the self stops, and thus the healing of the King (Self) is at hand. Each of the psychological constructs: ego, consciousness, unconscious, archtype, shadow, anima, animus, Self, etc. are shown in the characters and various props/objects within the legend.
Students of the legends of King Arthur and the Round Table will find this to be a very scholarly study of the particular tale of Perceval and his search of the Holy Grail. The Round Table is connected to the two preceeding tables - the table where Christ held the Last Supper with his disciples and the table that becomes the Altar for the Holy Communion.
[ C B Collins Jr - Review of, ' The Grail Legend', by Emma Jung, and M L Von Franz]
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So, My cursory Analysis, is, just, one more, in, a long line, of, investigations.
THE WOUNDED KING, CORRESPONDS TO, THE, 'DEVIL', AND, THE, 'CHRIST', OF MEDIAEVAL THOUGHT.
THE 'ASTRAL' INDICATOR, IS, THE CONSTELLATION, 'CAPRICORNUS',[SEE PREVIOUS POSTINGS], OTHERWISE KNOWN AS, 'THE GOAT-FISH'.
WHO 'FISHES', IN ,THE 'RIVER'[ERADANUS] ? IT, IS, A 'SPLIT', SELF-IMAGO
[OF MEDIAEVAL THOUGHT], CHRETIEN, HAS, A 'SPLIT' PERSONALITY.
THE 'QUESTING BEAST?' TAKE, A LOOK, AGAIN, AT ,MY ,PART 5 , AND, PART 4, YOU WILL, PLAINLY SEE, THAT ,A 'FOX', A 'GIRAFFE', ETC, ARE, ALL, 'CONSTELLATIONS!
SO , IT, IS ,OBVIOUS, THE CONSTELLATION ,OF, SYMBOL[IN THE UNCONSCIOUS]
IS, 'REFLECTED', IN, THE PSYCHE.
JUST AS, IN, 'MOBY DICK',, AHAB'S,WOUND, HIS, 'STUMP',AND HIS, 'WANDERING UP AND DOWN, ABOUT THE EARTH',IS, MELVILLE'S,' UNCONSCIOUS ', INCLUSION, OF, HIS OWN, PERSONAL, FAMILY CIRCUMSTANCES, IE, HE HAD, A ,'MOTHER COMPLEX',
SO, CHRETIEN, TOO, AND MANY OTHERS,USE THE SAME SYMBOLISM[IN DIFFERENT 'FORM'],
TO COME ,TO TERMS, WITH, THE, 'SELF'.
The interesting thing, for me, is just how, this ancient tale, repeats itself, in modern times, in the Psyche of people, for the most part, totally unaware, of, the Symbolism.
The Movie, by, Mr Gilliam, brings, up, to date, the Psycho-Logic, implications of , LONELINESS.
DR.PARNASSUS, I, COULD, WRITE, A BOOK, ABOUT.'BUDDHA', IMAGERY, LOTUS, LADDERS,INFLATED, BALLOON TYPE,'MACHINES'..[SAME, AS ,LANG'S ,'METROPLIS']
AND SO, ON.
MR G, IF, YOU, EVER, READ, THIS...I, KNOW, EXACTLY, WHAT, YOU, WANTED, TO PORTRAY.
IT'S ,OK, I, AM ,NO,DOCTOR...I,AM, A TAXI-DRIVER...AND, I, KNOW, WHAT, HAPPENED, TO, YOU..I, CAN ,HELP, YOU..IF, YOU ,WANT.
The City [another 'Archetype'] replaces the 'Castle'. The, 'new God-imago', is TECHNOS. Modern man, in his concrete jungle, still strives, to connect, with the deeper part, of his own soul.
TECHNOS, has become, our, 'new God-idea', but, like all, 'Imago symbolism', it has, it's own, DUALITY.
A Radio announcer? can he influence the actions, of the Public? Can he be positive? or Negative? I certainly think so! Shock Jock? or, mere Puppet, of advertising Moguls? Technos! has us all , in it's Thrall!
The, 'Red Knight', is the 'Death instinct', of Freudian thought. It is inescapable.
The best we can do, is to learn, from our ancestors. LONELINESS IS THE GREATEST EVIL.
We now understand, that our own DNA, is derived from Reptilean/Avian, origins. So too, then, our own consciousness, from the same source. The Reptile was always in Eden, of that there is no doubt! so what happened to the Bird?..........
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