This unique book is about freeing psychologys poetic imagination from the dead weight of unconscious assumptions about the soul. Whether we think of the soul scientifically or medically; behaviorally or in terms of inner development; all of us are used to thinking of it in an individual context; as something personal. In this book; however; we are asked to consider psychology from a truly transpersonal perspective as a cultural; universal-human phenomenon. Cobb teaches us to look at the world as a record of the souls struggles to awaken and as the souls poetry. From this perspective; the real basis of the mind is poetic. Beauty; love; and creativity are as much instincts of the soul as sexuality or hunger. Cobb shows us how artists and mystics can teach us the meaning of love; death; and beauty; if only we can awaken to their creations. The exemplars here are Dante; Rumi; Rilke; Munch; Lorca; Schumann; and Tarkovsky.
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