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Meditations

Meditations

Meditations is a work by Marcus Aurelius.

Core claims

  • The Meditations is not a Stoic handbook but a sustained practice of active imagination avant la lettre—Marcus Aurelius consulting his own psyche nightly in a mode that anticipates Jung’s technique by eighteen centuries, yet without the benefit of a psychological vocabulary for what he was doing.
  • Marcus Aurelius discovers the Middle Voice without naming it: his repeated injunction to neither master fate nor be crushed by it, but to hold one’s station within convergence, enacts precisely the grammar that Cody Peterson identifies as abolished at Constantinople and that Hillman locates as the forgotten stance of soul-making.
  • The Meditations reveals that Stoic prosoche (attention to oneself) is not the suppression of pathology but its metabolization—a process Hillman would recognize as “pathologizing” in the archetypal sense, where the soul’s disturbance is the gateway rather than the obstacle.
  • How does Marcus Aurelius’s practice of nightly self-examination compare to Jung’s method of active imagination as described by Marie-Louise von Franz in Psychotherapy, and what are the consequences of performing such work without a concept of the unconscious?
  • In what ways does Cody Peterson’s concept of the Middle Voice and convergence in The Iron Thūmos reframe the Stoic amor fati as an ontological stance rather than an ethical doctrine, and does this reframing resolve Hillman’s critique of ego-centered psychology in Re-Visioning Psychology?
  • How does Edinger’s reading of Stoicism in The New God-Image illuminate the tension between Aristotelian logic and the transcendent function that Marcus Aurelius enacts but never theorizes?

See also

  • Library page: /library/ancient-roots/marcus-aurelius-meditations/

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