Öde Nerdrum, Jan-Ove Tuv & Sebastian Salvo sit down to discuss Carl Jung’s idea about the collective unconscious.
Topics in this episode include:
- Art is collective consciousness, kitsch is collective unconsciousness
- Translating the unconscious, making the archetypes understandable
- Jung reintroduced spirituality, but in scientific language
- Modern man divided between science and belief — politics fills the gap.
- Opposition between Jung’s individualism and collective unconscious?
- Not an island unto oneself but learning from all cultures and all times
- Save the Cat! and why we only have a handful of stories
- Protestantism and art as iconoclast movements
- Rejecting collective unconscious robs the castle of its defense
- Becoming a whole man through “re-ligion”
- The superficiality of Art’s claim to archetypal content
- On Persephone and Demeter and Beauty and the Beast
- Cindarella & Peter Pan: Many characters are aspects of one person
- The Anima and the Animus: Have men lost more than women?
- The reward of performing “the persona”
- Daphne and Apollo» VS theater and the Dionysian mysteries
- Little Red Riding Hood: Understanding, not knowing the story
- The genuine laughter in Rembrandt’s “Self-Portrait as Zeuxis”
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The conversation was produced by Bork S. Nerdrum and assisted by Alastair Blain.
The centerpiece was a 19th century reproduction of G. F. Watts’ Hope.
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