Narcissus Unbound

The Tatie of Nymphs Series : VII

The English language is filled with words that are spoken in such a way that they eventually leave a bad taste in the mouth. It ought to be said of language that their reference to meaning is dependent on the parameters of time … fashion … values … and the sophist. In a world experience that is growing into a ' lack of borders ' we return to look at our old ways. Much of these preached concerns are about the nature of man … much of it are remnants of past experiences … and lacked the facilities we have today.

We used to listen to the voice of one man … today we listen to the voices of many. It has come to confuse the loyalty we had to the one … and in the process we realize that … that was the Narcissus all along.

Today in the engagement of the Narcissus we apply ourselves in three ways. One is the adolescent … who knows of the Narcissus … but is ignored by the growing experience … and the pressures of the social values. Two … through the female … who brings a soft touch to his mental processes … and produces an experience that needs an older sister to excel. Three is the male teen … who is guided by the Narcissus into perceiving why he was born … why he is where he is … and what is he going to accomplish?

Put together … and with due respect to Freud … it may well represent the experience of the ego. Which brings to mind the great fight between Jupiter ( Ego ) and Chiron on the nature of the truth. Chiron had undertaken a dutiful but Narcissistic self analysis of the nature of creation and represented the same to the human experience on earth. Jupiter … in the sudden wonder of realization ... of the importance of physical experience … contested the self declared prophecies and charged the need for living ... as affirmation of the truth.

The story is that Jupiter won … and Chiron left a trail ( adaptation )* as … Thanatos … Anteros … Hades … Satan … and eventually to rise as Saturn … even more convinced than Jupiter himself … about the truth of the living nature of experiences. Jupiter of course … will always content himself with … ' I told you so.'

Plato wrote ' The Republic '… Machiavelli ' The Prince ' … ' Adolf Hitler ' Mein Kampf ' … which are reflections of self declared prophecies of the times. The self … resides in the ego … which we recognize as comprising three parts … the adolescent, the female and the teen … as the true home of the self. He combines individuality with a social nature ... the Aristotelian ideal … the physical life … he's the common man … and there are billions of them.

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* The story line from this point represents the views of the author of the article.