Nietzsche

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Hi everybody,

As we've been talking about Nietzsche, I thought I would share a painting. I

studied the Nietzsche Seminars with a Jungian analyst and in that text found

one of my paintings described by Niet in his idea " the lake of my home " .

Jung wrote that the " lake of my home " is a symbol for the personal

unconscious, the land of the shadow. It is one's own personal body of water

as opposed to the great water, the collective unconscious.

In the painting my feminine consciousness is symbolized by the moon. The

moon seems to be slowly and fearfully entering the lake of the personal unc

as it begins its downward journey in search of wholeness. The area above the

lake is my father's farm, the place I am coming from - my consciousness.

And on the very bottom is the great abyss, the collective unconscious.

Of course, when I painted it I just painted what popped into my mind and

didn't think of the meaning. Later I looked at the work from a Jungian

perspective to try to understand it. Finally I found Nietzsche's idea and

thought the unc had expressed it beautifully in the painting so I gave it

the name " Lake of My Home " .

Carol