And secondly, the question of ananke, necessity the necessity of life, of each of us and of each thing in the world. That all things here are necessary claims from us recognition respect and a psychology of acknowledgement that gives back to the world its subjectivity, its consciousness. One of the most radical and recurring statement underlying archetypal psychology is the statement of Jungian origin that in our age of demythologization and disenchantment of the world the Gods come back only as pathologies of the psyche. I do not read Plotinus as many Christian and Neoplatonist metaphysical systemitizers do. I read him as a psychologist, since he is that primarily - at least phenomenally, since the realm of soul is the primary experiential realm even for him.
Discourse fails because it declares itself to be beyond discourse.
I always read Plotinus as a psychologist, fron the viewpoint of soul, of phenomenal existence. On reading The Soul's Code , in spite of the great variety of the biographies taken into consideration, one has the feeling that the ideal reader remains the average American who wants to find at all costs an Ariadne's thread to get out of an old and structural identity crisis peculiar to his own History. Each work stands on its own unless deliberately and overtly declared to be one of a series. Each work brings its own critical criteria for judgment. The daimon's desire to be here, embodied.