James Hillman – Culture & the Animal Soul (pdf)

“To clarify the role of image, let us say that the image is at the aesthetic core of all animation. It is what makes life displayed, i.e., aesthetic. Even plants and stones have a causa formalis, a quiddity, those particular patternings which make each thing what it is and different from every other. However, the articulation of the image, the rhetorical elaboration,the translation into word,gesture, syntax, symbol, thought, lyric, rhyme—the poiesis that makes the human into homo faber—that is specific only to us.”

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