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• jwanderson commented on the word portal

  Use of the word portal, from an essay on a Romanian myth about the building of a church: Ruxandra Ion and James William Anderson, The Myth of the Masterbuilder: A Psychoanalytic Perspective, in "Psychoanalysis and Architecture," ed. by J. Winer and J. Anderson, 2005.

  "In the Myth of the Masterbuilder, the Black Prince wants to build his church at the spot where something eerie has been happening. At this location, attempts to construct a building have failed, and dogs, who can sense otherworldly vibrations, “bark and bay” when they come nearby. A portal into the supernatural realm resides there. No simple building can withstand the forces that are at large. It is an apt location for a church, because a church encloses on earth a portion of the spiritual realm. But a church must be worthy of fulfilling this awesome role; it must be powerful and special in order to serve as God's dwelling."

  May 27, 2015

• jwanderson commented on the word originology

  "Originology" is a word coined by the psychoanalyst, Erik H. Erikson. He used it in both "Young Man Luther" and "Gandhi's Truth." In "Young Man Luther" he wrote, that originology refers to “reducing every human situation to an analogy with an earlier one, and most of all to that earliest, simplest, and most infantile precursor which is assumed to be its ‘origins.’”

  November 4, 2009

• jwanderson commented on the word originology

  Originology is a word coined by psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson and used it in both "Young Man Luther" and "Gandhi's Truth." In "Young Man Luther," he wrote that originology refers to "reducing every human situation to an analogy with an earlier one, and most of all to that earliest, simplest, and most infantile precursor which is assumed to be its ‘origins.’”

  November 4, 2009