“Know thyself’ means also know thy peculiar images

“Know thyself’ means also know thy peculiar images, holding them in an interior void, close and familiar, without doing anything to them or for them. It is an inactive imagination and sometimes this is enough, for as we put events inside to carry and hold and digest, space is created to contain them.

— Re-Visioning Psychology, “Pathologizing or Falling Apart”


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