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Series. 76´62 C91-094611-6 Copyright © 1991 by Graham Jackson. All rights reserved. INNER CITY BOOKS Box 1271, Station Q, Toronto, Canada M4T 2P4 Telephone (416) 927-0355 FAX 416-924-1814 Honorary Patron: Marie-Louise von Franz. Publisher and General Editor: Daryl Sharp. Senior Editor: Victoria Cowan. G. Jung. Cover: "Yellow Man, Green Man," oil painting by Gerard Gauci (© 1991). Index by Daryl Sharp Printed and bound in Canada by John Deyell Company Page 5 Contents 1 Introduction72 Green Men and Yellow Men14 The Green Man 14 The Flower Boy 17 The Gardener 23 The Prophet of the Land 30 The Green Artist 36 The Yellow Man 37 The Golden Boy 39 The Hellenist 42 The Lunatic 46 Apollo, Yellow's God 52 Conclusion 603 Green Men with Yellow Men63 Two Kinds of Consciousness 63 Man and Youth 72 Comrades-in-Arms 1014 Case Material129 Hannes and NinoPreliminary Remarks Anamnesis 130 The Course of the Analysis 137 Observations 147Bibliography149Index154 See last page for other titles by Inner City Books Page 6 Hamo Thornycroft, The Mower, 1884 (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool) Page 7 1 Introduction Mankind has always been concerned with the question of the oppositestheir separation and reconciliation.

8 He concludes: "The heterosexual bond is not de rigueur. 10 The basis for such ideas is actually a very old one. It can be located in several passages of Plato's writings, but nowhere more graphically than in Aristophanes' speech in The Symposium. Aristophanes depicts humans as originally round (read: whole) beings, some composed of male and female halves, and some of two female or two male halves. These beings became arrogant over time and, to punish them, Zeus cut them in half. Out of pity for them he then rearranged their reproductive organs so that the two separated creatures might have some means of reconnecting with or of imitating their former, lost wholeness.

He is very possessive. In its shadow manifestations, his sexuality is that of the hedonist, the Epicurean, the sybarite. Even within a monogamous relationship, he knows no sexual inhibition, and yet, what Vannier has called "an innate sense of justice and balance"65 comes into play whenever sexualityor anything elsethreatens to overrun his life. For the gardener is basically a conservative soul. Combined with obstinacy and reluctance to change, this can, of course, lead to an unyielding dogmatism, a sticking to the law that strikes a fascist note.

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