Analysis of Ego in Psyche’s Embrace
Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)
Our life is a loop
When we think of nothing else
But only our ego;
Going around in circles
To return and to haunt us.
So life is a loop
That takes us all in circles;
Repeating our ills
With all our misadventures,
And without compensation.
Psyche invites us
With compassionate offers
Of compensation;
To transform that loop of life,
By therapeutic healing.
Ego should listen
To beckoning of psyche,
Whose only desire
Is individuation—
Ego in psyche’s embrace.
Seek then for psyche,
For the soulmate of ego,
Who provides healing,
Who considers our welfare,
With tender loving kindness.
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Metre | 101101 1111101 1101010 1001010 1010111 11101 1111010 010101 11100010 001010 10011 1010010 1010 1011111 101010 10110 1100110 110010 11 1001001 11110 101110 10110 1010101 1101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 595 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
About this poem
The splitting of ego and separation from psyche refers to the fractured division of ego functioning in narcissistic fashion and demonstrating manifold complexes. This malady of splitting, is reflected in Friedrich Nietzsche’s (1882) Gay Science philosophy (“Die froliche Wissenchaft”) of the loop of “eternal recurrence” where freedom, action, and will power, although epiphenomenal in nature, take precedence over the centrality of spirit or psyche, and where the human personality can only return to wholeness by therapeutic engagement of the ego with the psyche, in a compensatory process which Jungian psychology calls individuation, and which restores the fractured parts of ego back to wholeness and completion, with ego reconciled and in psyche’s loving embrace. As Swiss psychiatrist, Carl Gustav Jung, so wisely reminds us (C.G. Jung, in Collected Works 8, paragraph 261), “The psyche [or Holy Spirit] is the starting point of all [in-depth] human experience, and all the [in-depth] knowledge we have gained.” Without the involvement of psyche, we are all like empty vessels, moving like puppets without a soul. more »
Written on June 04, 2022
Submitted by karlcfolkes on June 04, 2022
Modified by karlcfolkes on June 06, 2022
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