Anima and Africa by Matthew A. Fike

Author:Matthew A. Fike
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

In the background is Saint Paul’s distinction between the physical body and the spiritual body in 1 Cor. 15.45; part of the verse appears in the illustration to Blake’s “To Tirzah,” which Lessing probably knew: “It is raised a spiritual body,” which is what seems to have happened to Watkins. Now he sees the city’s inner blueprint or pattern and the Forms of things on the physical plane, realizing that “there were no such things as judges, but only Judge, not soldiers, but Soldier, not artists, but Artist . . . and not clerks but Clerk, and Gardener, and Teacher” (95–96). This material obviously refers to Platonic Forms, which Jung equates with the archetypes, stating that “ ‘Archetype’ is an explanatory paraphrase of the Platonic εἶδος” (CW 9i, par. 5) and describing archetypes in a way that resonates with Lessing’s “brainprints”—“An archetype means a typos [imprint]” (CW 18, par. 80; Jung’s insertion). His statement that archetypes are form without content also resonates with the crystal nature of the UFO. An archetype’s form, he says,

might perhaps be compared to the axial system of a crystal, which, as it were, preforms the crystalline structure in the mother liquid, although it has no material existence of its own. . . . The archetype in itself is empty and purely formal, nothing but a facultas praeformandi, a possibility of representation which is given a priori. . . . With regard to the definiteness of the form, our comparison with the crystal is illuminating inasmuch as the axial system determines only the stereometric structure but not the concrete form of the individual crystal. This may be either large or small, and it may vary endlessly by reason of the different size of its planes or by the growing together of two crystals.

(CW 9i, par. 155)

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