“There is no light without shadow and no psychic wholeness without imperfection. To round itself out, life calls not for perfection but for completeness; and for this the “thorn in the flesh” is needed, the suffering of defects without which there is no progress and no ascent.” (Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy)
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Art: Jules-Élie Delaunay: Ixion précipité dans les Enfers
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Carl Lubin's paitining of Léon Krier's (yet) unrealized project of Atlantis on Tenerife Island. Maybe some day. Set at five hectares, it would have 19 squares, 31 external streets. Except the great tower, all buildings one or two stories tall.

classical architecture

Souls on the Banks of the Acheron (1898) by Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl (1860-1933). The newly dead on the banks of that river they must cross in Charon’s boat to the world of the dead. Hungarian art.