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rosa_posa's review
3.5
an intriguing book really - at some points it felt like they were just digging and laying it on too thick but overall very good
ellephuonglinhnguyen's review
4.0
Psyche's act leads, then, to all the pain of individuation, in which a personality experiences itself in relation to a partner as something other, that is, as not only connected with the partner. Psyche wounds herself and wounds Eros, and through their related wounds their original, unconscious bond is dissolved. But it is this twofold wounding that first gives rise to love, whose striving it is to reunite what has been separated; it is this wounding that creates the possibility of an encounter, which is prerequisite for love between two individuals. In Plato's Symposium the division of the One and the yearning to reunite what has been sundered are represented as the mythical origin of love; here this same insight is repeated in terms of the individual.
catherinepbartnikgmailcom's review
Spending my Wednesday with a Jungian disciple and an outdated myth - score.
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