tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894514913516471357.post2446582882363803031..comments2023-07-13T05:01:01.343-07:00Comments on Holistic Recovery from Schizophrenia: Imagine Joseph Campbell knowing nothing of schizophreniaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700295858497275586noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894514913516471357.post-73788587560716511042011-03-02T22:30:08.607-08:002011-03-02T22:30:08.607-08:00Joyce's passage there is beautiful to me. I us...Joyce's passage there is beautiful to me. I used "Joy of Lex" as teaching material for many years. <br /><br />This kind of writing or thinking is not owned by SZ but by human beings. Joyce's writing is a kind of automatic writing from and "automatic thinking or watching the flow of words. but probably edited and re-edited. The artist uses their tools to actualize inner being. The non-artist or amateur cannot do this - it takes years of practice to actualize the self in this way, project mood and experience though art. Moreover Joyce' stuff requires a great deal of analysis because he is playing off many many literary allusions and themes - you need a English Prof as a guide to his writing - and if you do, you will be well rewarded. What this passage means in context or by itself in his narrative (yes I'm told there is a narrative) ?I do not catch but by itself it is art and as art it resonates in the unconsciousness and affects consciousness with it's reformulation of symbols and archetypes.<br />If a monkey had written that , it would be one God-lucky Monkey.<br /> <br /><br /> Jackson Pollack is another example of random and unconscious expression through art. It's not truly random, it's the result of experience and concentration. No, it's not meaningless - he reached deep into himself to produce those paintings which apparently are similar to brainwave patterns but definitely relay a sense of mood or experience to many appreciative viewers, whether direct enjoyment or as background. <br /> <br />A SZ writing or speaking often does not have any control or enough experience and does not use it to direct expression, more they are the victim of it.<br />SZ actually become involved or over-involved in those processes of consciousness which the ordinary person does not become involved in.<br /><br /> They are involuntary explorers of consciousness. Those processes of themselves are not invalid activities, the disintegration of the SZ mind is the problem. Language is all about usage and creative development.<br /><br />If Joyce worried about that he wasted his time - better off to use that time to write another book or use that reflective time to think about how he could communicate with his daughter and help guide her.<br /><br />He could write ordinary narratives as well - I much enjoyed "Dubliners". <br /> "ililiths" soemhow from Jabberwocky - some of taht mood of facing the Jabberwodk seems there. <br />"fields of heat and yields of wheat where corngold Ysit" - sounds Van Gogh beautiful but seems to be shamed and shone. My, oh cry what could have crappened? ;)Skybluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12366888956552012585noreply@blogger.com