Monday, September 19th, 1977

WISDOM'S GOLDENROD, ALAN BERKOWITZ CLASS NOTES

(TYPED)

SEPTEMBER 19, 1977

EPISTEMOLOGY; SYMBOLIC FUNCTIONING

TOPIC: Epistemology

SUBJECT: Symbolic Functioning

SUBSUBJECT: Levels

BOOKS READ FROM OR REFERENCED:

• C.G. Jung, CW 6, Psychological Types

• Herbert Silberer, Problems of Mysticism and Its Symbolism

• Ernst Cassirer, The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Vol. 1, Language

DIAGRAM embedded in these notes:

• FIGURE 1977 0919-1-AB. Four Levels of Symbol correlated with Soul Monad.

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• RETYPED HANDWRITTEN NOTES (hence V08). From Alan Notes 02 1977 to 06 1979.PDF.

• All capitalization and punctuation corrected, abbreviations spelled out.

1977 09/19 at Wisdom's Goldenrod

Epistemology; Symbolic Functioning

[Alan Notes 0919 1977 Begin]

09/19/77

Jung -- Psychological Types -- pp. 125-6, 128; paragraph 814 ff., symbol; paragraph 687 ff., attitude

[FIGURE 1977 0919-1-AB. Four Levels of Symbol correlated with Soul Monad. Top right reads: Cosmological -- the zodiac is a symbol of the Ultimate. Middle right reads: Epistemological -- productive imagination projects a symbol or image within which experience takes place. Bottom right reads: Psychical → mythological, ritualistic. The Soul Monad is: Jupiter in Gemini, Saturn in Cancer, Mars in Libra, Venus in Scorpio, Mercury in Sagittarius, Moon in Capricorn, Sun in Aquarius. Facsimile scan from AB class notes.]

Ritual brings through into the psyche a solution to a certain problem faced by a collective.

Cosmological symbolism regulates a whole universe.

Jung's unconscious = Greek rational soul

Cassirer -- p. 12 ff., schema [Note: See Ernst Cassirer, The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Vol. 1, Language.]

[Herbert] Silberer -- Problems of Mysticism and Its Symbolism -- p. 233 ff.

Symbol may portray: 1) a content of the mind - material; 2) an activity of the mind - functional.

[Alan Notes 0919 1977 End]