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March 27, 2021

Extracting the psychology of the individuum from the alchemistic mysterium

March 27, 2021

27March

It is well known that Jung felt some special affinity with the mediaeval world in general, and with alchemy in particular. He saw connections there with the core of the psychology of the individuum.

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December 19, 2020

Alexandria, spacetime, and the nature of mystery

By Leif Frenzel

In Research

December 19, 2020

19December

The architecture of Durrell’s "Alexandria" tetralogy is constructed in analogy to the idea of four-dimensional spacetime in the theory of relativity. Durrell calls this “the relativity proposition”. How does this work in terms of plot layout?

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