FOI Presents: Samuel Beckett Unborn

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In 1935, writer Samuel Beckett attended a lecture where C.G. Jung spoke of a young girl "who had never been born entirely," a concept that would deeply influence Beckett's characters for the rest of his life. This event examines how Beckett utilized this "unborn archetype" and the corresponding "devouring mother" as source material and structural scaffolding for his famous stories.

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The Alchemical Heart

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Before they were re-visioned as “seven deadly sins,” desert monastics of the fourth century imagined eight evil thoughts, or “calculating reasons” of the mind.

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