Living consists of going after goals that we set for ourselves in order to give meaning to our passage through the world. But the life we lead has a drawback: we will never reach those goals that we set for ourselves, because each one of them is only the end of one stage and the beginning of the next. As María Zambrano says: “To live, at least humanly, is to move on, to always go towards… further.” Then the temptation of the absurd appears: why pursue something unattainable? That is, why live, since life consists of that? Does death simply come to interrupt that absurdity? Why then do we (normally) try to continue living, to continue looking for the unfindable, instead of taking the side of death, which comes to put an end to that inconsistency? In this video we will give the reason for those whys and wherefores. The link to the Jung interview I quote in the video is:
• Carl Gustav Jung habla...
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14 окт 2024