Well, not really. By and large, we relate before we conceptualize, in utero and without thought as traditionally defined. However, communicating through the blog platform requires expressing perception as words rather than touches. Ergo, LogosEros here...yet eroslogos within.
For glosses on eros and logos on which I base my expression of perception, please consult the comment section for this posting. Cheers!
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"In Jung's earlier writings, he intuitively equated masculine consciousness with the concept of Logos and feminine consciousness with that of Eros. Either one could be dominant in a particular man or woman, due to the contrasexual complexes.
ReplyDelete'By Logos I meant discrimination, judgment, insight, and by Eros I meant the capacity to relate. I regarded both concepts as intuitive ideas which cannot be defined accurately or exhaustively. From the scientific point of view this is regrettable, but from a practical one it has its value, since the two concepts mark out a field of experience which it is equally difficult to define.
'As we can hardly ever make a psychological proposition without immediately having to reverse it, instances to the contrary leap to the eye at once: men who care nothing for discrimination, judgment, and insight, and women who display an almost excessively masculine proficiency in this respect. . . . Wherever this exists, we find a forcible intrusion of the unconscious, a corresponding exclusion of the consciousness specific to either sex, predominance of the shadow and of contrasexuality.'"[CW 14, pars 224f.]
Retrieved from http://www.psychceu.com/Jung/sharplexicon.html (Daryl Sharp, M.A. Jungian Analyst. 1991. Jung Lexicon: A Primer of Terms & Concepts).
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The Collected Works of C.G. Jung. Vol 14, The Personification of the Opposites. Bollingen Series XX, translated by R.F.C. Hull, edited by H. Read, M. Fordham, G. Adler, and Wm. McGuire. Princeton University Press, Princeton,1953-1979.
If you care to purchase the book, visit Inner City Books for Daryl Sharp, M.A. Jungian Analyst. 1991. Jung Lexicon: A Primer of Terms & Concepts at http://www.innercitybooks.net/book.php?id=47.
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