5 notes tagged "opposition"

tempering of one by the other
… the only redemption for either of a pair of opposites is the tempering of one by the other. Faust is redeemed by the love of Gretchen;
May 5, 2020 opposition shadow archetypes manly
Senex and puer in Hillman
Senex is a style of life and thought characterized by a sense of time and history, a concern for order, a love of tradition, and a tendency toward
September 22, 2019 aging archetypes opposition
complex man in hamlet
Shakespeare defined complex man with unerring accuracy in Hamlet. a stage higher on the evolutionary scale represented by H., the worried, anxious,
September 10, 2019 seriousman suffering existential opposition triplicity fourfold
two-dimensional man don quixote
Don Quixote (Cervantes) a man so enamored of the simple ways of two-dimensional man — medieval man — that he took on the finery of knighthood and
September 10, 2019 medieval opposition reality simpleman
the faustian transformation
Faust and Mephistopheles, a pair as opposite as black and white. The tension between them alerts us to the most important lesson in Faust: that all
September 10, 2019 opposition shadow