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Originally Posted by Kooker  I like that very much, thank you.
Experience is inherent to identity--but how are you to express the experience in a way that is particular to yourself? If I experience the loss of a loved one, how do I encapsulate /my/ loss and not just /a/ loss (that is, we all experience loss, but these losses are particular to our individual feeling). Through metaphor, or poetry, I think. And therein lies the creation--or realization, of a "self."
Read in the above context--the loss in one, is the loss in all; the greatest poetry is universal, or "In All," yet it is particular to that poets feeling, or "In One." A paradoxical convergence.
More stuff for me to mull on, thanks for the post. |
kooker,
We are not really at odds with each other on this, your statement reminds me of a saying by Carl Jung, that to speak in universals is to speak with a thousand voices. Being an individual is not a unique experience, it is in fact common. If one speaks however in the voice of self confession, of most particular woes, it will reach the heart of a limited number of people, speak in universals concerning the human condition and you have the world's ear--to speak in universals is to expand your concept of the self, which embraces all of humanity, past, present and future. I am glad you liked my previous response, such a positive response, thank you as well!!