[EXTRACT] The basic metaphors of the Lurianic Kabbalah are psychologized in Freud, and Jung. Jung, whose psychology is in large part derived from a meditation on the spiritual aspects of alchemy, was greatly influenced by the Kabbalah, and can be said to have extracted the Kabbalistic gold that lay buried in the alchemists arcane formulae for the transmutation of metals. Finally, Jacques Derrida, the founder of deconstruction, explores many themes that are quite reminiscent of Kabbalistic ideas. These include Derridas notions of difference and the trace, which have much in common with, and are llluminative of, the Lurianic symbols of Ein-sof and Tzimtzum, as well as the notion of deconstruction itself, which can be understood as a contemporary interpretation of the Lurianic Breaking of the Vessels.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 13:01:50 +0000
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