Lament of the Dead

“We are lived by powers we pretend to understand.”

And it provides a technique for encouraging and learning from imagination. It gives imagination a much more concrete life

but that we’re living in a world which is alive with the dead, they’re around us, they’re with us, they are us.

We think we’re posing the questions but we’re not. The dead are animating us.

Karl Jaspers says so and lists five reasons why this going into the underworld and talking with figures and listening to voices, and doing what Jung did, is demonic, it’s non-Christian.

Not only that, we read Jung in translation in English. It’s not even what Jung wrote. And somehow this must create maybe a six or a seven tremor in the underground.

“Not one item of the Christian law is abrogated, but instead we are adding a new one: accepting the lament of the dead.”

I gave was called “The Language of Psychology and the Speech of the Soul,”77 and I wanted to show this tremendous contrast between the language of psychopathology, with the way the soul speaks, and how we must find another language.

He saw the whole enterprise as about enabling individuals to refind their own language, develop their own cosmologies.