tessurae commissure
May 29, 2010
Tracking around his interest in “synchronicity,” behind, I sense, “–nominative power–& landschaft/ expderience (geography)…” I read in Charles Stein’s book on “The Secret of the Black Chrysanthemum”:
“In March of 1961, Olson read closely the chapter in Jung’s Aion called “The Sign of the Fishes.” In Aion, Jung explores the connections between the archetype of The Self and the significance of the Christ figure in Christian civilazation.”:21
And then Stein offers this note on Olson’s reading, which is useful apropos “Place; & Names”:
“He was very interested in the notion of “synchronicity” as it pertains to history: that events which occur at the same time but are not otherwise connected causally, are nonetheless brought together within history by the projection of a single archetype upon them. The “synchronistic” view of history used by Jung in this chapter is very close to Olson’s own method of seeing historical events in such a way that they appear to reveal inherent schemes of order. The value of “synchronicity” for Olson (and astrological reckoning as its cosmic prototype) is that it gives a primary ordering function to the concrete data of space and time and at the same time provides a scale of reference broad enough so that the earth, with its view of the heavens, and both its geologic and human history, can be grasped as a unity.
As there is very little in Maximus IV, V VI and less in The Maximus Poems (1960) to make explicit the relationship between Olson’s view of history and Jung’s notion of synchronicity (other than Olson’s practice of them) the knowledge of the source of the term “commissure” is an important key to an understanding of The Maximus Poems as a whole.”:23
In Olson’s dictionary: “commisure:”
A joint, seam, or closure; an interstice, cleft, or juncture.
But, apparently Jung liked, in reference to “synchronicity,” what the White Queen says to Alice: “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.”
So I’m flipped back to another blog thing a did a couple of month’s ago re my mother’s “dementia”: http://fjwah.wordpress.com/
Now the synchronicity of place, naming, bio, and mind within the “junctures” of my own attention start to vibrate.
What!
