02-11-2008, 04:53 PM
What appears to be completely undiscussed about Eco's two major novel's, The Name of the Rose, and Umberto Eco's is the close association both have with the Qabalistic Tree of Life.
In the frontpiece of Name of the Rose, Eco includes the glyph of the Tree of Life, but one that has two unexplained images added to the normal Tree of Life diagram.
In Foucault's Pendulum, the ten segments of the book are named after the ten Sephira of the Tree of Life.
I would dearly love to ask him about these curiosities, so if anyone has his email address please PM it to me in confidence...
In the frontpiece of Name of the Rose, Eco includes the glyph of the Tree of Life, but one that has two unexplained images added to the normal Tree of Life diagram.
In Foucault's Pendulum, the ten segments of the book are named after the ten Sephira of the Tree of Life.
I would dearly love to ask him about these curiosities, so if anyone has his email address please PM it to me in confidence...
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14