Marcovich emphasizes the difference between depth and the horizontal direction on the earth’s surfaces. Soul is not in the surface of things, the superficialities, but reaches down into hidden depths, a region which also refers to Hades and death.
This passage deploys Marcovich’s philological analysis of ‘bathun’ to ground Hillman’s core argument that soul’s depth is categorically distinct from surface existence, aligning psychic interiority with the underworld.
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