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“ When I am in despair, I do not want to be told of re-birth; when I am aging and decaying and the civilisation around me is collapsing from its overgrowth that is over-kill, I cannot tolerate that word: “ growth”, and when I am falling to bits in my complexities, I cannot abide the defensive simplistic of mandalas, nor the sentimentalities of individuation as unity and wholeness. These are formulae presented through a fantasy of opposites- the disintegration shall be compensated by integration. But what of the cure through likeness where like takes care of like? I want the right background to the failure of life; I want to hear with precision of those Gods who are served by and thrive upon and can hence provide an archetypal background to and even an Eros connection with the defeat, decay, and dismemberment, because these dominants would reflect the experienced psyche ( not in its Aristotelian conceptualisation as belonging to life), but in the actuality of its only known goal which is also both its way and its substance, death. “ ~ James Hillman ~ Loose Ends ~