FACING THE UNRESTRAINED Listen, my heart, as only
saints have listened: until the gigantic call lifted them off the ground ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino
Elegies/First Elegy
Pretty Pretender, thy artisan, soul-making neither fails nor achieves in the same way as this world of facts
We conceptualize self in
terms of dynamic multiplicity of relatively autonomous I positions in an
imaginal landscape. The I has the
possibility to move, as in a space, from one position to another in accordance
with changes in situation and time. The
I fluctuates among different and even opposed positions. The I has the capacity to imaginatively endow
each position with a voice so that dialogical relations between positions can
be established. The voices function like
interacting characters in a story.
--Hermans, Kempen & van Loon, "The Dialogical Self"
Mythopoetics In Culture is a written collection of poems, essays and excerpts from essays by mythopoet, Stephanie Pope published to mythopoetry.com beginning in 2001 to the present. In 2017 mythopoetry.com brings guest blogging to its cultural mythology blog expanding its format to include poems and essays by the cultural mythologists of today.
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