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Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ PSYCHE   id+ | OUR SOUL IS A
                 TENDER BUTTERFLY |
  gr PSYCHE = BREATH or  sug> INSPIRE
     PSYKHE   SOUL       see> MIND
  myth> art> THE SYMBOL OF PERSONIFIED PSYCHE
             IS THE BUTTERFLY
  id+ | A HARSHER VIEW IS TO CALL
        PSYCHE OUR MIND | see> PSYCHO~
  med> THE MIND IS PART OF AN ORGANIC SYSTEM
  note A COMMON MISTAKE BY SOME EXPERTS IN PSYCHOLOGY
       IS TO EXAGGERATE THE MIND AS
  A SEPARATE COMPONENT FROM THE REST OF THE ORGANISM
  note THE ALTERNATIVE EXTREME VIEW
  maxim> "YOU CAN NOT CHANGE HUMAN NATURE"
  such nonsense is pervasive as in
  maxim> "HUMAN NATURE IS AND ALWAYS WILL BE THE SAME"
  in fact THE TASK OF EDUCATION
          IS TO CHANGE HUMAN NATURE
  note how WAR LOVE and other dramatic events
  ALTER "HUMAN NATURE"
  id+ | THE UNION OF EROS WITH PSYCHE
        ENGENDERED BLISS |
  id+ | perhaps EROS BONDED WITH PSYCHE
        represent BONDING OF SOUL and MIND |
  myth> PSYCHE AND EROS or CUPID
        convey the idea of CUPID CURED FROM LUST
  note PSYCHE WAS GRANTED IMMORTALITY BY ZEUS
  see> CUPID for POETIC EXTRACTS
  lit+ note that the sole extant source for the
       above is LUCIUS APULEIUS [#] and HIS TALE
  "THE GOLDEN ASS" [23]
  cont> in addenda under development see> ~& PSYCHE
  art> often PSYCHE IS SHOWN AS A BUTTERFLY or CHRYSALIS
       often represented as the
  PERSONIFICATION OF A SOUL FULFILLED
  DEPICTED AT TIMES AS A SMALL WINGED MAIDEN or
  AT TIMES AS A BUTTERFLY
  also a marble statue "PSYCHE ABANDONED" 1790 by
       Augustin PAJOU [#] at the Musee du LOUVRE in PARIS is
  a LOVELY example of the period
  cont> in addenda under development see> ~& PSYCHE
  PSYCHE MAY BE DEPICTED WITH WINGS OF A BUTTERFLY
  cont> in addenda under development see> ~& PSYCHE
  WINGED FIGURES OF CHILDREN CALLED EROTES MAY
  SURROUND PSYCHE AND EROS
  often NEMESIS STANDS BEHIND EROS AND IN FRONT OF HER
  MAY STAND ELPIS or HOPE
  HOLDING A LILY or LILA LILLY
  cont> in addenda under development see> ~& PSYCHE
  lit+ some passages translated by Robert GRAVES [#] [23]
       illustrate poetic vistas of a son and his love
  for his mother and his prospective bride
  " ... THIS TIME THE EARTH
  NOT THE SEA
  HAS BEEN IMPREGNATED BY A HEAVENLY EMANATION AND
  HAS BORNE A NEW GODDESS OF LOVE ...     {PSYCHE}
  UNABLE TO SUPPRESS HER FEELINGS ...
  {VENUS} SAID TO HERSELF
  "REALLY NOW!
  WHOEVER WOULD HAVE THOUGHT
  THAT I'D BE TREATED LIKE THIS? "        sug> PRIDE
  SHE AT ONCE CALLED HER WINGED SON EROS ...
  THAT VERY WICKED BOY ... "
  VENUS WISHED HIM TO WOUND PSYCHE
  WITH LOVE FOR A DESPICABLE MORTAL BUT INSTEAD
  EROS FELL IN LOVE HIMSELF
  biol> note species and families named
        PSYCHIDAE  PSYCHINA  PSYCHINE
  PSYCHODA  PSYCHODIDAE etc


~ PSYCHO~  lat prefix for MIND or
^u         SPIRIT or SOUL from   sug> ATMOSPHERE
     gr DELEIN  = TO MAKE and
        PSYCHE    MIND  also
        PSYKHO    BREATH or TO BREATHE
     sug>         or SPIRIT SPIRITUAL
          ATMOS   VAPOR AIR BREATH SOUL
     skt  ATMAN   BREATH  SOUL
     sp   ALMA    SOUL
     ukr  DUKH    SPIRIT
          DUCHA   SOUL
        PODUKHAI  BLOW AIR  EXPIRE
          DYKHAI  BREATHING
     ger  DUFT    SCENT ODOR
                  the above evolves into
~ PSYCHEDELIC     id+ AGENT CAPABLE OF MAKING MANIFEST
                      CHANGES OF THE MIND
                  sug> HALLUCINATION  DELUSION
~ PSYCHIATRY      gr PSYCHE    and
                     IATREIA = HEALING
                  med> BRANCH OF MEDICINE CONCERNED WITH
                       HEALING MENTAL DISORDERS
                  sug> PSYCHOSES  NEUROSES
~ PSYCHIC         CONCERNING THE SPIRIT or SOUL or
                  gr PSUKHO = BREATH
~ PSYCHISM        A DOCTRINE PROPOSING THAT
                  A DIFFUSE FLUID IS THE ANIMATING FACTOR
                  OF THE SUBSTANCE OF ANIMALS
~ PSYCHOANALYSIS  med> EXPERIMENTAL THEORETICAL EFFORT
                       CONCENTRATED ON THE STUDY OF
        UNCONSCIOUS EFFECTS ON CONCIOUSNESS
        ply> | STUDY OF UNCONSCIOUSLY
               STORED PSYCHIC DETRITUS |
       note NEUROTICS are called  " IMMATURE "  as if
            IN NEED TO COMPLETE THE DIGESTION OF
       "CHILDISH" REMNANTS
       ukr DETYNA =  CHILD
           DETY      WHERE ARE YOU?
       sp  DESTINO   DESTINY
       ply> | EVERY NORMAL CHILD SEEKS A DESTINY |
       med> PSHYCOANALYIS or a method developed by
            Sigmund FREUD [#] for the
       THE TREATMENT OF NEUROSES BASED ON
       ASSUMPTIONS THAT NEUROSES ARE CAUSED BY
       UNCONSCIOUSLY REPRESSED EXPERIENCES THAT
       DISTURB CONSCIOUSNESS
       hx> S FREUD [#] ESTABLISHED THE IMPORTANCE
           OF THE UNCONSCIOUS IN GENERAL AND THE
       SEXUAL INSTINCT IN PARTICULAR
       C JUNG [#] STUDIED THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS AND
       THEREFORE THE MYTHOLOGY OF SOCIETIES AND IN HISTORY
       ADLER [#] STROVE TO HELP PEOPLE TO LIVE MORE
       EFFECTIVELY  THUS HOW TO FIT INTO SOCIETY
       HIS MOTTO COULD BE DEFINED AS
       " HAVE THE COURAGE TO BE IMPERFECT "
       attr to Rudolf DREIKURS [#]
       lit+ Carl JUNG [#] PROPOSED THAT DREAMS AND
            THE UNCONSCIOUS ARE PRESENTED TO THE
       CONSCIOUS BUT NOT IN " LOGICAL " or
       ORGANIZED FASHION
       THOSE ELEMENTS THAT RECUR AND ARE COMMON TO
       MOST OF HUMANITY DO NOT STEM FROM
       PERSONAL GROWTH AND EXPERIENCE BUT
       CAN BE VIEWED AS BEING OF 
       INBORN HUMAN  NATURE
       COMMON TO MOST PEOPLE
       may be seen as
       INBORN CONDITIONED REFLEXES
       JUNG CALLED THESE  " ARCHETYPES " or
       PSYCHOLOGICAL MYTHS
       id+ GREEK MYTHS ARE AT THE ROOTS OF 
           THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE
       MYTHOLOGY AND A MYTH ARE  " PUBLIC DREAMS "
       attr to CAMBLE [#] but in fact
       such idea is quite old
       lit+ HERODOTUS [#] [I:60] recognized how
            MYTHOLOGIES SPEAK FOR THE PEOPLE
       "   ...  OF OLD THE HELLENIC RACE
           WAS MARKED OFF FROM THE BARBARIAN AS
           MORE KEEN WITTED AND MORE FREE FROM NONSENSE "
       id+ POPULAR MYTHOLOGY OF A PEOPLE IS A CLUE
           TO THE PSYCHOLOGICAL MAKEUP OF A NATION [12]
       sug> ISRAEL  USSR  NAZI GERMANY
       id+ | MYTHOLOGY or IDEOLOGY IS A SYSTEM OF
             INTEGRATING SOCIETAL PSYCHOLOGY WITH
             A WORLD OUTLOOK | or in short
       A WAY TO FILL A VACUUM IN COGNITION OF THE WORLD
       IN THIS SENSE MYTHOLOGY IS MORE AKIN TO KNOWLEDGE
       THAN SCIENCE or
       RELIGION but admittedly MYTHOLOGY DID ENTER
       INTO RELIGION TO THE DEGREE THAT IT HAS BECOME
       THE CULTURAL HERITAGE AND PART OF
       THE TRADITIONS OF A PEOPLE   see> MYTH
       lit+ Alfred ADLER [#] 1870-1937 in
            "Understading Human Nature"  Oneworld Ltd
       Oxford 1992  offers views about
       SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF INDIVIDUAL DAILY BEHAVIOR
       "IN THE PAST IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR HUMAN BEINGS
        TO LIVE SUCH ISOLATED LIVES ...
        WE HAVE FEW CONNECTIONS WITH HUMANITY ...
        INSUFFICIENT CONTACT WITH OUR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS
        ... APPROACH EACH OTHER AS STRANGERS ...
        LITERATURE AND POETRY ...
        BROADEN OUR KNOWLEDGE OF HUMAN BEINGS ...
        ENABLE US ALL TO BECOME BETTER FULLER AND
        FINER PEOPLE ...
        {MANY WILL BLAME} PARENTS  ... EDUCATION ...
        BEING OVERINDULGED ...  ABUSE
        {BUT REGARDLESS OF THE EXCUSE}
        THERE IS THE DESIRE TO BE RELIEVED
        OF FURTHER RESPONSIBILITY ...
        THE HARDEST ... IS ...
        TO KNOW THEMSELVES AND TO
              CHANGE THEMSELVES "
~ PSYCHOLOGY  STUDY OF BEHAVIOR also
              A DISCIPLINE CONCERNED WITH
       THE MIND AND THE MENTAL PROCESS in fact
       MOSTLY CONCERNED WITH BEHAVIOR or
       CONDUCT  sug> DUCTILE
       ukr POVEDINKA from
           PO        and
              VEDE = HOW and WAY   sug> VADE VEGA VEDA
~ PSYCHOPOMP    myth> THE GUIDE or
                      CONDUCTOR OF DEPARTED SOULS
~ PSYCHOPOMPOS  or HERMES in his role as
                A LEADER OF SOULS OF THE DEAD or better
       LEADER OF THE SOULS OF THE DEPARTED
       from sp or lat POMPA or
       gr POMPEIN = DISPLAY  PAGEANT
                    GRANDEUR  SPLENDOR
                    MAGNIFICENCE  STATELY  SOLEMN
       ply> | STATELY SOLEMN RETIREMENT PARTIES ARE
              PSYCHOPOMPOS RATHER THAN SPLENDID |
       art>  a popular theme is
             HERMES as PSYCHOPOMPOS leading
             EURYDICE to ORPHEUS as shown in the
             RELIEF IN THE VILLA ALBANI OF ROME
~ PSYCHOSIS  id+ | MENTAL DISORDER     see> NEUROSIS
                   A DISINTEGRATED " PERSONA " |
  ply> | loss of PERSONAL PERSONALITY as in
         STRANGER TO SELF |
  sp  LOCO        = CRAZY or INSANE or MENTALLY ILL
                    " OUT OF PLACE "  ALIENATED  STRANGE
                    VARIANT or AT VARIANCE FROM NORMAL
  lat LOCUS         PLACE
  med>              note alternative views
      BOH           GOD
         VOLA       WILL
      BOZHEVILNYJ   MENTALLY INSANE or SET FREE FROM REASON
  ukr       VARIAT  OUT OF PLACE  VARIANT  ALIENATED  " CRAZY "
  lat       VARIUS  CHANGING
  sp     DESVARIA   INSANE  DELUSION  ILLUSION
  ukr  BOZHEVILNYJ  FREED BY GOD from REASON thus INNOCENT
            VILNYJ  FREE
          NEVILNYK  SLAVE
            VILNO   FREE or PERMITTED
            VOLA    WILL  sug> VOLUNTARY
  eng  ALIENATION   as in FOREIGN  STRANGE  ALIEN  WEIRD
           MUTANT   ALTERED  INCONSTANT  SHIFTING
  sp       MUTAR    CHANGE
           NORMA    RULE    leads to ABNORMAL ANOMALY
  ukr  ZDURIV       INSANE
        DURNYJ      DUMB  with NO REASON  UNREASONABLE
  ply> | HUMAN LIMITS are IMPOSED by
         LIMITS OF PHYSICS AND REASON |
  ply> | VARIANT ALIENS at VARIANCE with
         LOCALS ALIENATE LOCALITIES |
  id+ | THOSE THAT DO NOT FIT THE NORM may be
        CONSIDERED DUMB  RUDE  INSANE or
        OUT OF PLACE  common TAGS FOR ALIENS |
  hx> SOVIET PSYCHIATRY TREATED DISSIDENTS
      AS MENTALLY ILL or ALIENS TO
  COMMUNIST IDEALS
  MARX STARTED WITH THE PREMISE THAT
  THE MASSES WERE ALIENATED AND MARXISM WAS
  THE " CURE " FOR SOCIAL ALIENATION  or
  THE WAY TO UTOPIA       sug> EU TOPOS  or BEST PLACE
  BOLSHEVIKS AND LATER OTHER COMMUNISTS
  TO GAIN POWER USED THE STRATEGY        sug> SUBVERT
  TO INCREASE THE ALIENATION OF PEOPLE   sug> CONVERT
  ONCE IN POWER THE COMMUNISTS
  DISPOSE OF THOSE WHO ARE NOT HAPPY
  " PURGES "  or    sug> CATHARSIS  PURGE  PURGATORY
  REMOVAL     or    sug> PSYCHOSIS  GULAG  PENITENTIARY
  KILLING           sug> CAUSTIC    HOLOCAUST
                    sug> CAUSE      CASUALTY
  med> PSYCHOSIS IMPLIES LOSS OR
       DISORGANIZATION OF NORMAL CONSCIOUSNESS
  THAT INTEGRATES A PERSONALITY
  in NEUROSIS  THE " PERSONA "  IS PRESERVED
  PSYCHOSIS IS CONSIDERED " ORGANIC BRAIN DISEASE "
  NEUROSIS IMPLIES A " FUNCTIONAL" BRAIN DISORDER OF AFFECT
  see> MAD  ALIEN  CRAZY  INSANE  VARIANT
  hx> HUMAN RIGHTS IDEALS DECLARE THAT MEDICINE CAN NOT
      BE USED AS A POLITICAL WEAPON BUT
  MANY  MOST NOTABLY  JAPAN GERMANY AND USSR
  HAVE USED MEDICINE TO COMMIT CRIMES
  note IN SPAIN and other cultures
  THE ALIENATED ARE " INNOCENT" as are the
  MENTALLY RETARDED   sug> AMENTIA = LACKING INTELLIGENCE
  note CHILDREN ARE CONSIDERED INNOCENT     sug> DEMENTED
  GUILT IMPLIES ACTS UNDER A CONSCIOUS CONSCIENCE    <sug
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