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The Human Condition: A Fractured Soul

Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)

Haiku
Human nature screened:
Inherent rascality!
So says Dr. Jung.

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All of us have buried within the innermost depths of our souls elements of a Dr. Jekyll and a Mr. Hyde. None of us is without flaw. All of us fall short of the glory of the fully individuated man. No man is an island, wholly and apart, entire unto its psyche. Each of us is a part of the continent of the collective unconscious. So says Dr. Carl Gustav Jung, eminent Swiss psychiatrist.

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Written on January 09, 2022

Submitted by karlcfolkes on January 09, 2022

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Karl Constantine FOLKES

Retired educator of Jamaican ancestry with a lifelong interest in composing poetry dealing particularly with the metaphysics of self-reflection; completed a dissertation in Children’s Literature in 1995 at New York University entitled: An Analysis of Wilhelm Grimm’s “Dear Mili” Employing Von Franzian Methodological Processes. The subject of the dissertation concerned the process of Individuation. more…

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