Aspects of libido are represented in numerous ways:
Here the devil again puts into Faust's hand the marvelous tool [the key], as once before when, in the form of the black dog, he introduced himself to Faust as part of that power which would ever work evil, but engenders good ( Faust, Part I, trans. by Wayne, p. 75, modified )
CW5 ¶ 181LIBIDO AS CREATIVE AND PROCREATIVE
WITH INTUITIVE FACULTY
What he is describing here is the libido, which is not only creative and procreative, but possesses an intuitive faculty, a strange power to “smell the right place,” almost as if it were a live creature with an independent life of its own (which is why it is so easily personified). It is purposive, like sexuality itself, a favorite object of comparison
CW5 ¶ 182THE `REALM OF THE MOTHERS'
The “realm of the Mothers” has not a few connections with the womb (fig. 012) with the matrix, which frequently symbolizes the creative aspect of the unconscious
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LIBIDO AS GOOD / BAD,
MORALLY NEUTRAL
This libido is a force of nature, good and bad at once, or morally neutral. Uniting himself with it, Faust succeeds in accomplishing his real life's work, at first with evil results and then for the benefit of mankind
CW5 ¶ 182TRIPOD AS HERMETIC VESSEL WHERE
ROYAL MARRIAGE IS CONSUMMATED
In the realm of the Mothers he finds the tripod, the Hermetic vessel in which the “royal marriage” is consummated
CW5 ¶ 182PHALLIC WAND
But he needs the phallic wand in order to bring off the greatest wonder of allthe creation of Paris and Helen
CW5 ¶ 182TOOL IN FAUST'S HAND
The insignificant-looking tool in Faust's hand is the dark creative power of the unconscious, which reveals itself to those who follow its dictates and is indeed capable of working miracles
CW5 ¶ 182PARADOX APPEARS VERY ANCIENT
This paradox appears to be very ancient, for the Shvetashvatara Upanishad ( 19, 20 ) goes on to say of the dwarf-god, the cosmic purusha:
CW5 ¶ 182Without feet, without hands, he moves, he grasps; eyeless he sees, earless he hears; he knows all that is to be known, yet there is no knower of him. Men call him the Primordial Person, the Cosmic Man.Smaller than small, greater than great
The phallus often stands for the creative divinity, Hermes being an excellent example. It is sometimes thought of as an independent being, an idea that is found not only in antiquity but in the drawings of children and artists of our own day
CW5 ¶ 183PHALLIC CHARACTERISTICS IN
SEERS, ARTISTS, WONDER-WORKERS
So we ought not to be surprised if certain phallic characteristics are also found in the seers, artists, and wonder-workers of mythology. Hephaestus, Wieland the Smith, and Mani (the founder of Manichaeism, famous also for his artistic gifts), had crippled feet
CW5 ¶ 183MAGICAL, GENERATIVE POWER
OF THE FOOT
The foot, as I shall explain in due course, is supposed to possess a magical generative power. The ancient seer Melampus, who is said to have introduced the cult of the phallus, had a very peculiar nameBlackfoot, and it also seems characteristic of seers to be blind
CW5 ¶ 183UGLINESS AND DEFORMITY
Ugliness and deformity are especially characteristic of those mysterious chthonic gods, the sons of Hephaestus, the Cabiri, to whom mighty wonder-working powers were ascribed (fig. 013)
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Their cult was closely bound up with that of the ithyphallic Hermes, who according to Herodotus was brought to Attica by the Pelasgians. They were called,`great gods'
CW5 ¶ 183IDAEAN DACTYLS
Their near relatives were the Idaean dactyls (fingers or else Tom Thumbs), to whom the mother of the gods had taught the blacksmith's art (“Follow it down, it leads you to the Mothers!”)
CW5 ¶ 183They [Idaean dactyls] were the first Wise Men, the teachers of Orpheus, and it was they who invented the Ephesian magic formulae and the musical rhythms
CW5 ¶ 183The characteristic disparity which we noted in the Upanishads and Faust crops up again here, since the giant Hercules was said to be an Idaean dactyl. Also the colossal Phrygians, Rhea's technicians, were dactyls
CW5 ¶ 183THE PILEUS
The two Dioscuri are related to the Cabiri; they too wear the queer little pointed hat, the pileus, which is peculiar to these mysterious gods and was thenceforward perpetuated as a secret mark of identification. Attis and Mithras both wore the pileus (fig. 020) . It had become the traditional headgear of our infantile chthonic gods today, the pixies and goblins
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