The Metamorphosis of the Gods
The Metamorphosis of the Gods
The development of modern art with its seemingly nihilistic trend towards disintegration must be understood as the symptom and symbol of a mood of universal destruction and renewal that has set its mark on our age.
This mood makes itself felt everywhere, politically, socially, and philosophically.
We are living in what the Greeks called the “Kairos”-the right moment- for a “metamorphosis of the gods,” of the fundamental principle and symbols.
This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious man within who is changing.
Coming generations will have to take account of this momentous transformation if humanity is not to destroy itself through the might of its own technology and science.
C. G. Jung
The Undiscovered Self, 1958
Pages 77-78
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Steve,
Thank you for the time and energy you so willingly give to the furthering of depth psychology.
The organic, natural continuum of art that began with the caveman, living in the caves of what is now France, Art evolved and stayed on a steady course of enlightenment until WW 1, when the continuum was hijacked by political, greedy non-artists who exploited and dismantled the divine unfoldment of human artistic talent. Expanding instead on the concept of the sanitation department and landfill engineers, Art became garbage, detritus designed for channels in the sewer not the magnificent sea of the continuum. The distortion of truth subsumes Art in general and so the darkness is preponderant as Art has lost the light. This slate of darkness is expanding and the nascent trend of tearing down and removing Art is growing. Art must be internalized until the light drives the shadow into a manageable external reality. Imagination can not be destroyed only expanded.