>>13739694>The topoi of “women’s work” and “child’s play” is central to alchemy. Known to Alexandrian hermetics, the allegory of women’s work, like that of child’s play, occurs in many different alchemical treatises prompting varying interpretations. >Therefore they compare this art to women’s work; that is, washing until it becomes white, cooking and roasting until it is done.This seems resonant with how Jung worked with alchemical concepts. Imaginative experimentation, less "the occult", more play between the internal and external world, letting concepts define and influence the physical etc.
>>13739708It made me go pretty crazy and embarrass myself, but I actually kicked some long-ingrained habits in short succession and was partly freed from the grip of others. The power of renunciation or self-denial I think is located in the vitality and consciousness generated by suffering. Maybe you're just storing up bad habits for a big burn, who knows.
