Eranos Lectures

Eranos Lecture 2

The Thought of the Heart

60 pages, ISBN 0-88214-402-2 / 978-0-88214-402-3, Eranos Lectures

Part One, The Captive Heart, clears away imprisoning notions of the heart: as muscle and pump, as symbol of royal pride and solar will, as seat of personal sentiments. Part Two reveals the heart to be the organ that responds aesthetically to the world and is the seat of true imagining.