Rafael López-Pedraza
We are very grateful
to Rafael López-Pedraza and to Daimon Verlag for
granting us permission to publish an essay from the book Cultural Anxiety.
The essay "Reflections on the Duende" is a
commentary on the experience of Duende inspired by the great Spanish poet
Federico García Lorca in his essay The Theory and Play of the Duende.
In this masterly essay, López-Pedraza passionately describes the profound experience
of duende that is best illustrated in the magic of flamenco, the temple
of bullfighting and the dismemberment of Dionysus. "Duende is the very special
moment of truth when the soul and a god ... are fused in confusion reaching the 
daimon in each one of us. Here we have indiviuality and the collective in
fusion"
Jung Society Lectures:
- Feb 19 - Rafael Lopez-Pedraza "Picasso's Nekyia"
- Feb 20 - Rafael Lopez-Pedraza "On Dionysos"
Rafael López-Pedraza was born in Cuba in 1920 of Spanish heritage. He lived in Zurich from 1963 until 1974 and attended the C.G. Jung Institute. Today he lives in Caracas, Venezuela, where he divides his time between professional duties, a psychotherapeutic practice and writting.
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