Psychology literalizes components - or actions - of the self via myths. Interesting concept: psychological myths. Are the four Zoas (or is the mind) a thing or activity alone?
The worship of reason (Urizen) represents an idol of impossible purity, because Urizen is nothing, Urizen is delusion. => guilt. (FZ40.2-8)
The Zoas represent endless dialectic, contraries, opposite aspects of the same essential characteristic, much like Tarot. The dialectical process is potentially endless because the active dialectic of human experience is endless. This concept is contained within the Zoas, along with their Emanations and Spectres.
Self and Otherness ...
Can there be both? Is Albion both whole and parts-that-are-not-parts?
What Blake seems to want - whether it is symbolized in Albion or in Jesus the divine body - is a whole whose parts are not parts, in which individuality can be preserved without concession to otherness. Here is a central antinomy in Blakes thought, the wish to be at once individual and universal, self and not-self, human and divine. (Damrosch, 1980)
Blake and Jung ...
Jung wrote, It was one of the greatest experiences of my life to discover how enormously different people’s psyches are.Blake would never say this, because for him, all psyches are versions of the universal psyche to an extent which Jung, despite his interest in universal symbols, would never claim. For Blake, the whole is fully present in each particular member (omnisubjectivity). All are interconnected through the imagination.
I assume Blake would also not appreciate the randomness of Tarot outcomes. This is another of his paradoxes: rejecting Reason or any -ism based perspective, while also embracing a certain objectivity (though multifaceted and perhaps undefinable) as a central organizing principle of the universe.
Also from Jung (influenced by Blake?) ... model of four mental functions: thinking, feeling, sensing, and intuiting.
