Amor & Psyche

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Amor & Psyche

HW**Read the PDF on Blackboard called Soul before Wednesday I. The only beauty that can challenge the beauty of Aphrodite is beauty of the soul. a. Psyche is so beautiful that is starts to make Aphrodite jealous. So she sends her son, Cupid (Eros, Amor are his other names) to make Psyche fall in love with a hideous man who is not wealthy so she will have misfortune. b. But then, instead of doing what he was bid to do, he pricks himself to fall in Love with Psyche. c. We fall in Love with each others flaws and wounds, thats what draws us together. d. Expect there to be jealousy when we love the soul and not just the body. e. They take her to the cliff and leave her there. i. Amor came at night and make Psyche his bride, but disappears before the light. Then Psyche is being taken care of. 1. Daimon = Demon (in our Christian translation) but it wasnt necessarily a bad thing. They were just in-between beings. 2. Psyche is counseled by Amor not to see his sisters because they will bring her harm and trouble. He also threatens her to not try to discover who he is otherwise he will never see her again. 3. This is one of the way our soul appears, emotional, swamped, and hysterical, etc. just erratic. They are nave. a. Psyche attempts or is brought to near death multiple times. Pg.15 b. She goes to see her sisters finally after she seduces him. They ask her to describe her. She claims that he is young, then old, and that now she is pregnant. c. She is convinced that her husband is a serpent and convinced that she fell in Love with Love itself. To make Love lovable. Psyche is in the dark a. It means two things. It is a metaphor. Meaning: i. There is no light (literal meaning) ii. She has no idea who or what her husband is. iii. She has this fear-stimulated imagination causing her imagination runs wild because shes become extremely curious thanks to her sisters. 1. Her sisters arent advising her with her best interest at heart. 2. Why does she believe her sisters over Amor? a. She can see her sister. They have this familiarity. b. Pg.25-26 she sees Amor and suddenly wants to kill herself. She (soul) has a special relationship with death. Her hands are shaking so much that she drops the dagger and pricks her finger and falls in love with Love itself. We cant go it alone in our lives. It means that everyone needs very deep profound connections. b. There is a betrayal here when Amor is awoken when some lamp oil spills on his wings. She tries to kill herself after Amor has flown away. But Pan stops her and tells her to try to reconnect with him.
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Amor & Psyche 2 c. She tricks her sister into leaving their husbands and jumping off a cliff. Our souls arent necessarily the place of kindness and its really a place of hardness. She wanders and finally ends up with Venus/Aphrodite. Venus then gives her 4 very difficult tasks. Psyche task: its the stage that we sit there and have to sort through the very confusing feelings and thoughts and our reasoning about the relationship/Love. But she doesnt sort through it; she has ants/helpers do it for her. i. Ants 1. Very strong 2. Hardworking 3. Small 4. Cooperative 5. Something that we need (they come and sort things out for her because she cant do it, so they come to her) a. Its a job b. Its an impossible job c. We feel overwhelmed, that feeling is our soul speaking. Its not a failure. But we cant solve some problems on our own. We always are going to run into some place that we cant sort out by ourselves. d. The Heroic Model: We are to seek help when we are in need of it and solve the issue. But Psyche doesnt do that. She sits and cries and tries to kill herself. She doesnt predict the help that comes. i. Ants first ii. Golden Fleece: iii. Its not about going it alone when youre being soulful iv. She doesnt try to resolve the problem herself. d. Pudicity: it is the virginity of the mind. It comes and goes. i. It is returning to a sort of state of innocence.

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