This presentation, given over two days, will discuss Blake’s illustrations of the book of Job, which can be seen as the condensation of his lifelong mythic thinking rendered into 21 engraved plates. These plates can be read as a descent myth. To view these plates from an individual perspective is interesting and valuable, one might see it as an individuation journey. Edinger named it as an encounter between the ego and the Self, that is, an expression of the Transcendent Function. Blake is so fecund and so broadly sourced it is easy to project many meaning systems, as Sloane Wilson describes them, into him and his work. However, I suggest that it points in a wider more communal direction toward the group experience and, in particular, the unfolding event of ‘becoming’ in the context of the whole.
Dear Membership,On behalf of the IAJS Board of Directors, we are please to announce Jason Wright’s coming IAJS seminar entitled: The Necessary Fiction: Blakes Illustrations of the Book of Job, a communal descent myth for our fluid time. Both ZOOM seminar sessions will occur next weekend on the 6th and 7th of November. We will post a ZOOM …