AtD translation: This was spirit, after all.

[Mark Kohut]

This may also hint at a Hegelian whiff of meaning, as we have lightly
explored here before.
(Two meanings of lightly, one being that TRP uses lightly, if he does at
all. Nothing but a concept or two--maybe
picked up from Marx--played with). It isn't capitalized here, for example.

explicated Hegel stuff:
>From this standpoint, spirit in its initial shape as I takes its form as
'mine' in the mode of personal identity. Within this context, the
unconscious is the subjective ground of the most primitive levels of
individuality. This pure or original consciousness, the formal ...

In this sense, we may say that the unconscious is not only non
self-consciousness, which is much of world history until spirit returns to
itself and comes to understand its process, but is furthermore the
competing and antithetical organizations of "impulses" (*Triebe*) that are
"instinctively active," whose "basis is the soul [*Seele*] itself" (*SL*,
p. 37) which informs spirit's burgeoning process.

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 4:05 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> More generally than "breath," "spirit(s)" also means the light, airy,
> volatile component of anything: "spirits of camphor," or alcohol  distilled
> (upward) and then condensed (downward). Reduced gas pressure over a liquid
> also lowers its boiling point. So there's a spatial metaphor here that
> whatever "spirited" impulses of rebellion may be in the unconscious emerge
> more readily at higher altitudes.
>
> Mann's The Magic Mountain, much of which takes place at an Alpine
> sanitarium,  also works this cluster of metaphors hard in its alchemical
> themes of spiritual transformation..
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 3:44 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > But what does it have to do with altitude and barometric pressure though?
> > Is it because spirit also means "breath"?
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 2:35 AM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> >
> > > One of the words for people who are feisty and resistant to being
> bullied
> > > is ”spirited”.  Does that answer your question?
> > > > On Apr 10, 2018, at 2:00 AM, Mike Jing <
> gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > P172.26-32   Did something, something essential, happen to human
> > > > personality above a certain removal from sea level? Many quoted Dr.
> > > > Lombroso’s observation about how lowland folks tended to be placid
> and
> > > > law-abiding while mountain country bred revolutionaries and outlaws.
> > That
> > > > was over in Italy, of course. Theorizers about the recently
> discovered
> > > > subconscious mind, reluctant to leave out any variable that might
> seem
> > > > helpful, couldn’t avoid the altitude, and the barometric pressure
> that
> > > went
> > > > with it. This was spirit, after all.
> > > >
> > > > What is being implied by the last sentence?
> > > >
> > > > P.S.
> > > > I've been working on a translation of Solaris for about a month.
> > There's
> > > > another book coming up as well, but I'll try to squeeze in some work
> on
> > > AtD
> > > > whenever I can.
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