Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Lecter series - unified analysis - part 30: Lecter wants to unite with God

CATEGORY: MOVIES

Seven Sermons to the Dead (Latin: Septem Sermones ad Mortuos) was written in 1916 by the Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist Carl Jung and ascribed to the gnostic teacher Basilides. The booklet was printed privately for Jung's friends but not widely available until it appeared as an appendix in his autobiography Memories, Dreams, Reflections in 1961. The text speaks cryptically about the Pleroma, the Abraxas and the soul; therein, Jung also discusses his principle of Individuality and warns of the mystical tendency to 'unite' with God, which he interprets as a dangerous psychological desire to identify with the unconscious.[a] In the analysis of the the movie Hannibal) on this blog, it was observed that Lecter is trying to 'get close' to God, to see him; in effect, to experience the beatific vision. Ultimately, Lecter wants to unite with God, and thereby identify with his own unconscious.


a. Wikipedia, 'Seven Sermons to the Dead'. Wikipedia, n.d. URL = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Sermons_to_the_Dead.


      

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