I’m teaching the first session of my “Psychology of Transformative Learning” course for graduate students at Meridian tomorrow. So in honor of that, thought I’d provide a quote from Derrida. Enjoy. Language is an intrinsically unreliable structure for communication. Real meaning exists in a dimension that transcends reason and language. It is a ‘dimension of…
… said Carl Jung, which segways nicely to my upcoming workshop April 16, at Book Passage. Here’s the description: Images lie at the heart of the creative process. They are the language of the “middle realm,” a place where literal words don’t yet exist. Depth psychologists believe that images are animate and in this seminar…
[The artist’s] antennae pick up messages before anybody else, so he is always thought of as being way ahead of his time because he lives in the present. There are very many reasons why most people prefer to live in the age just behind them. It’s safer. To live right on the shooting line, right…
“True art is found where we least expect it, where nobody is thinking about it or saying its name. Art hates to be recognized and greeted by name. It flees instantly.” —Jean Dubuffet, 1901-1985
Sometimes I get the coolest emails from people. One in particular, from someone named Eileen, has been sitting in my inbox for two months. It’s given me so much food for thought that I haven’t been able to file it away. The subject line of the email is: “as if…metaphor is the new critical thinking?”…
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