The Ancestor’s Speak: James Hillman on the Circus Clown

 

“We follow the clown into the circus by entering a perspective of rebellion against the dayworld order; rebel without cause or violence. Turning topsy-turvy, we deliteralize every physical law and social convention in the smallest things that we take for granted.  Through him we enter the perspective of the fantastic soul, clown as depth psychologist. Imagine, Freud and Jung, two old clowns.” (Hillman, The Dream and the Underworld,” (p. 180)

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