READING WITCUTT 2

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Book of Urizen
Plate 16, Copy G 

These are the names of the Chapters in Witcutt's Blake: A Psychological Study:

1.) The Nature of Imagination

2.) The Supreme Introvert

3.) The Four Zoas

4.) The Birth of the Functions

5.) The Anatomy of Disintegration

6.) The Conflict of the Zoas

7.) Reintegration

8.) Blake's Map of the Psyche

9.) The Introvert Looks at the World

The previous post was related to the first two chapters. The third chapter aligns Jung's four functions and the Anima with Blake's Blake's Zoas and their Emanations. Witcutt identifies Albion, the Eternal Man with Jung's Self. This chapter also fits the structure of Blake's own psyche into the pattern of Jung's functions and Blake's organization of the Zoas.

Larry's notes:

The Four Zoas                        Jung                         emanation (or anima)

Urizen Satan                          thought                    Ahania
Luvah                                     feeling                      Vala-------> Jerusalem
(Orc)                                      desire    
Palambron                             value
Los                                         intuition                    Enitharmon
Tharmas                                 sensation                 Enion

Witcutt Page 33

"One function of the four is always dominant, with whom the ego or conscious self identifies itself; the other three are repressed into the unconscious, some more and some less. With Blake the dominant function was obviously intuition; in the Blakean mythology this function is symbolized by the daemon Los. 'He is the Spirit of Prophecy, the ever present Elias' (Milton), Prophecy being one of Blake's names for 'the Divine Vision' - imagination or intuition."

Witcutt Page 40

"'The introverted intuitive's chief repression falls upon the sensation of the object. His unconscious is characterized by this fact. For we find in his unconscious a compensatory extroverted sensation function of an archaic character. (Quoted from Jung's Psychological Types)' 

Accordingly, Blake's most repressed function was sensation, represented by Tharmas."

Letters, (E 721)

     "A frowning Thistle implores my stay
     What to others a trifle appears
     Fills me full of smiles or tears
     For double the vision my Eyes do see
     And a double vision is always with me
     With my inward Eye 'tis an old Man grey
     With my outward a Thistle across my way"

Milton, Plate 24 [26] , (E 121)
"Los is by mortals nam'd Time Enitharmon is nam'd Space
But they depict him bald & aged who is in eternal youth
All powerful and his locks flourish like the brows of morning    
He is the Spirit of Prophecy the ever apparent Elias
Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Times swiftness
Which is the swiftest of all things: all were eternal torment:
All the Gods of the Kingdoms of Earth labour in Los's Halls.
Every one is a fallen Son of the Spirit of Prophecy             
He is the Fourth Zoa, that stood around the Throne Divine."

 Four Zoas, Night I, Page 5, (E 302)
"Tharmas groand among his Clouds
Weeping, then bending from his Clouds he stoopd his innocent head 
And stretching out his holy hand in the vast Deep sublime        
Turnd round the circle of Destiny with tears & bitter sighs
And said.     Return O Wanderer when the Day of Clouds is oer

So saying he sunk down into the sea a pale white corpse
In torment he sunk down & flowd among her filmy Woof"