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Quote:Money is a psychic reality, and as such gives rise to divisions and oppositions about it, much as other fundamental psychic realities – love and work, death and sexuality, politics and religion – are archetypal dominants which easily fall into opposing spiritual and material interpretations. Moreover, since money is an archetypal psychic reality, it will always be inherently problematic because psychic realities are complex, complicated. Therefore, money problems are inevitable, necessary, irreducible, always present, and potentially if not actually overwhelming. Money is devilishly divine.
Money is as deep and broad as the ocean, the primordially unconscious, and makes us so. It always takes us into great depths, where sharks and suckers, hard-shell crabs, tight clams and tidal emotions abound. Its facts have huge horizons, as huge as sex, and just as protean and polymorphous.
Money is like the id itself, the primordially repressed, the collective unconscious appearing in specific denominations, that is, precise quanta or configurations of value, i.e., images. Let us define money as that which possibilizes the imagination. To find imagination in yourself, turn to money behaviors and fantasies. You both will soon be in the underworld.
Therapy draws back. Do you know of the study done on therapeutic taboos? Analysts were surveyed regarding what they feel they must never do with a patient. It was discovered that touching and holding, shouting and hitting, drinking, kissing, nudity and intercourse were all less prohibited that was “lending money to a patient.” Money constellated the ultimate taboo.
Just as animals were spirits or gods in material forms, so too is money, a kind of third thing between only spirit and only the world, flesh, and devil. Hence, to be with money is to be in this third place of soul, psychic reality. And, to keep my relation with the unclean spirits whether the high daimones or the low daimones, I want some coins in my purse. I need them to pay my way to Hades into the psychic realm. I want to be like what I work on, not unlike and immune.
The cut between Caesar and God in terms of money deprives the soul of world and the world of soul. The soul is deflected onto a spiritual path of denial and the world is left in the sins of luxuria, avarice, and greed. Then the soul is always threatened by money, and the world needs the spiritual mission of redemption from the evil caused by the Weltbild that cuts Caesar from God. That money is the place where God and Caesar divide shows that money is a “third thing” like the soul itself, and that in money are both the inherent tendency to slit into spirit and matter and the possibility to hold them together…
If money has this archetypal soul value, again like the ancient coins bearing images of gods and their animals and backed by these powers, money will not, cannot, accept the Christian depreciation, and so Christianity time and again in its history has had to come to terms with the return of the repressed – from the wealth of the churches and the luxury of its priests, the selling of indulgences, the rise of capitalism with Protestantism, usury and projections on the Jews, the Christian roots of Marxism, and so on…
That we cannot settle the money issue in analysis shows money to be one main way the mothering imagination keeps our souls fantasizing. So, to conclude with my part of this panel, Soul and Money: yes, soul and money; we cannot have either without the other. To find the soul of modern man or woman, begin by searching into those irreducible embarrassing facts of the money complex, that crazy crab scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
iz Soul and Money;
Hillman, J. (1989) A Blue Fire. New York: HarperCollins Publishers.
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