Sublime

The old fairy tales, we are told by their modern interpreters, Bruno Bettelheim, Robert Bly, Joseph Campbell, and Clarissa Pinkola Estes, are ancient maps, offering their own guidance for the development of full human beings.

la meilleure amie d’une autre jeune femme, mariée celle-là, s’en vient vivre avec eux, et puis, à son insu, en toute innocence, mais sans merci, entreprend d’épouser le mari. Quand ce dernier est un écrivain occupé une bonne partie de la journée à une tâche difficile, et n’est donc pas pour sa femme un compagnon ou un partenaire digne de ce nom, l’

‘Caleb likes taking trouble: he is one of those men who always do more than any one would have thought of asking them to do,’ answered Mrs Garth. She was knitting, and could either look at Fred or not, as she chose – always an advantage when one is bent on loading speech with salutary meaning; and though Mrs Garth intended to be duly reserved, she

The old woman’s principal heir, however, turned out to be an honest man, the provincial marshal of nobility of that province,1 Yefim Petrovich Polenov.

unconscious assumption in a person whose primordial relationships, that is to say, with parents or siblings, were not supportive and did not inspire trust. Here are a few more common unconscious assumptions:

Freud, probably disingenuously, claimed until late in his life never to have read either of these philosophers. Schopenhauer’s pessimism and Nietzsche’s optimism were both well acquainted with the automatic stirrings of the mind, and Freud’s concept of the ‘Id’ (that instinctive self in which our primal processes are manifest) seems to be closely r