Saturday, November 24, 2007

the reader reading

‘A reader participates in the creative process when we let a work of art act
upon us as it acted upon the artist. To grasp its meaning, we must allow it to
shape us as it shaped him. . . plunged into the healing and redeeming depths of
the collective psyche. . . This re-immersion in the state of participation
mystique is the secret of artistic creation and of the effect which great art has
upon us.’ (Jung, 1971)

More here - http://www.falconastrology.com/pdfs/Fiction_in_Another_World.pdf - about 'participation mystique'; musings on how and why readers can become immersed in worlds that they know not to be 'true' nor even possible in some cases, but experience emotional responses as if they were.