Working From Inside the Frame
Internalizing honesty and writing through your emotive power through archetypal understanding. (Discussion with Alan).
What follows isn’t intended to be a polemics of any kind: I’m not interested in, nor have ever really been, in “bare difference”, nor “bare fact”, but I am endlessly amused by following threads and impulse. I have the utmost respect for my interlocutor.
I have been touting the influence of honesty and its connection to quality in writing for a very long time. It means quite a lot to be able to overcome certain censors in your head: the censors can corrupt your message, your material by overthinking the artificial appearance. While you might be left with a more “digestible” piece of work, you’ve effectively boiled all the freshness, all the pure power of your initial impulse. The thing that drove you to work on a given image in the first place.
What we haven’t done so well, though we frequently (still…even post-Lyotard?) is allow our feelings, our inner directives to point out how the image strikes the senses, strikes beauty or relevance or clarity…
These archetypes have been brought to our attention most prominently by Jung, a student of and co-worker with Freud. Jung, like most of the great thinkers of the twentieth…
