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Giancarlo (Giancarlo)
Username: Giancarlo
Registered: 11-2008
Posted From: 85.116.228.3
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - 01:41 pm: | |
When started Horror to me? As a child, I remember cowering in my bed as the image of St.Peter's martyrdom, being crucified upside down, as I had seen in the "Quo Vadis?" movie, haunted my thoughts. The same with the peplum movies displaying the torture of crucifixion. To think back of it, I reckon only Peter Ustinov as Nero could justify my feeling of terror. At night I often went to my parents' room to look for family company, asking my mother to keep my hand as I crouched beside her. The "crucified man" theme gave me the creeps for a couple years, say from six years old to eight. Was I being oedipal?
Was it a symptom of shamanic vocation? (Jung would probably suspect that.) Or am I an aborted vampire? Or was HORROR as we all know here today starting to loom upon my psychic horizon?
Whatever, I wish You all the best from Rome. |
Joel (Joel)
Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.37.199.45
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - 01:59 pm: | |
Jung's work is full of sentimentality and wishful thinking. I wouldn't place too specific a meaning on your early fears – images of violent death are frightening to most children, which is why the world religions make so much use of them. |
Giancarlo (Giancarlo)
Username: Giancarlo
Registered: 11-2008
Posted From: 85.116.228.3
| | Posted on Thursday, March 12, 2009 - 09:39 am: | |
I don't agree about Jung being all that sentimental and wishfully thinking, that's a perspective spread around by anti-Jungians. I am not Jung dependent but I have read and reread him (beside Freud and other "unicorn hunters") and find him to be an empiricist of images. There is a side of him I don't like, however, which has to do with your comment, but this softer aspect has been made to be the all of him, which is unfair to him and his doctrine. I'd rather have him complemented by Hillman, without being unmindful of Freud and phenomenology but...this is not the arena for such lucubrations. I admit starting it, I was simply advancing a thread about what our child scares may have been to make us "epicures of the Terrible", as Lovecraft would have it. |
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