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Tracking the centaur\u2019s historical arch, it would seem that, as an archetype of the hybrid, it was pointing both backward and forward; back in time to our state of primordial one-ness and forward, as a symbol of the creative union of the opposites (evidenced by the emergence of the hybrid-archetype of Chiron during Antiquity). Like The Hermaphrodite, The Centaur was not only a product of primitive non-differentiation. It did not disappear with an increase in civilization; centaurs persist across cultural epochs.<\/p>\n<p>We pick up \u2018the scent\u2019 in early Antiquity when The Centaur (the enigmatic hybrid of horse and man) was revered in the mythic imagination of the Babylonians and Greeks. As civilisation advanced, the cultural representation of the centaur grew more ambiguous and darker. The centaur (man\u2019s instinctual nature) is \u2018driven back into the forest\u2019 of the unconscious; consciousness becomes divided from the deeper instinctive strata of the human psyche, and as such, severed from the instinctual (animal) body. At the turn of the 20th Century, a revolutionary moment emerged: The Centaur is \u2018re-membered\u2019 by the poets, novelists, and artists of the time. This is the moment where the Spirit of the Time reflects the \u2018rebellion on the part of the animal\u2019 as Jung refers to it in the quote above from Psychology of the Unconscious. This is also the moment when Freud and Jung grapple with the \u2018Sexual Question\u2019 of their time, diverging in their views on the structure and dynamics of the psyche. It is against the backdrop of Jung\u2019s two-fold insight \u2013 that the body had become The Shadow of the Western Mind and that, from his depth-psychological perspective, it was integral to the Soul-Self \u2013 that I reflect on the contemporary question of \u2018The Body\u2019 in analytical work. This contemplation occurs at a time when symbolically speaking, the centaur is encountering the cyborg at the edge of the forest.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Scent of the Centaur\u2026Tracking the symbol of the Centaur across time, reflecting on the meaning and value of this symbol located at the nexus between the Spirit of the Depth and the Spirit of the Time, in an attempt to engage and illuminate the question of \u2018The (Animal) Body\u2019 in analytical work aimed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":109695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[542],"mec_speaker":[2947],"class_list":["post-109694","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-webinar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.3 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>On the Scent of the Centaur - 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