Cayetano Ferrer .... (ideas for my personal dream show - part two)
How better than that can you show the artificiality of a gallery space ? (my remark)
2006
EXTRAMUNDANE - 2008
Cayetano Ferrer
EXTRAMUNDANE - 2008
Cayetano Ferrer
"Bodies of water" - The Dream and the Underworld by James Hillman
I like James Hillman's writings, even though I often find them disturbing and not so easy to read if you don’t know what he refers to (here : alchemical psychology). They always bring new perspectives into my thinking and imagination and seem to be echoing deeply within me. In his book, The Dream and the Underworld, he brings new perspectives to the “conventional” interpretation of dreams. Here is for “water”. Bodies of water Concerning bodies of water in dreams (oceans, rivers, lakes, pools, baths), let us bypass the symbolisms of lustration and baptism, of doctrinal wisdom and uterine mother, and also the too general meanings of life energy, Mercurius, and the unconscious. Instead, let us take a lead from Heraclitus (frg. 36) : "To souls, it is death to become water ...," and (frg. 77, Freeman): "It is delight, or rather death, to souls to become wet..." Jung has expanded upon the death of the soul through water in his classical work on the Ro...
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