#European psych

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

William Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825 - 1905) The abduction of Psyche, 1895

[renaissanceoftheremarkable]

Psyche Entering Cupid’s Garden

(John William Waterhouse, 1903)

[carlyraejepsans]

"yeah I'm rereading the little prince i just felt like doing it" <- words of a man reaching his limits

[mythological-art]

Psyche Opening the Golden Box

Artist: John William Waterhouse (English, 1849–1917)

Genre: Mythological Painting

Date: 1903

Collection: Private Collection

From the story in Greek Mythology about Psyche and her love for Cupid, the son of Venus.

Psyche, the daughter of a king, incurred the wrath of Venus who eyed her as a rival. She instructed Cupid, her son, to infect Psyche’s heart with love for an outcast, but Cupid fell in love with her and visited her every night in her chamber. Fearing Psyche would be unable to resist his beauty, he remained invisible and warned her not to steal a look at him. One night, overcome with curiosity and goaded by her wicked sisters, Psyche took a lamp and shone it over Cupid as he lay asleep. She was so startled by his beauty that she spilled a drop of hot oil on his shoulder and woke the god from his slumber. Cupid was filled with anger at her disobedience and departed at once, leaving Psyche sad and deeply regretful. She roamed the earth in search of her lover, facing obstacles thrown in her way by Venus, until Jupiter took pity on her and made her immortal so she could be reunited with Cupid.

[katiajewelbox]

Cupid and Psyche by Jacopo Zucchi (1589).

[poundfooolish]

Deleting an entire rant on racist double think and the long oft-ignored history of white european cannibalism and the deranged hypocrisy of using cannibalism as a valid legal excuse to make slaves of other people especially in the Indies while practicing truly wild and bizarre amounts of cannibalism in Europe and the whole long sordid history of corpse medicine that we've politely disavowed and tried to forget because while it IS an interest of mine and I DO think it's vitally important to really face and square with these aspects of our history it doesn't need to be tagged onto someone else's post that's already being disrespected in the notes.

ANYWAY read 'Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires' by Richard Sugg for a real hard look at western european cannibal culture and how racist double think of assigning people the role of 'human but not human Enough' made it all possible

[bones-ivy-breath]

Psyche by Louis Couperus

[n3wy0rkd011]

History books and Collegeboard make women seem so worthless when they emphasize women who did absolutely nothing for “representation”

[funstyle]

i love reading about what are classified as "culture-bound disorders" like it really opens my eyes to how euro-american psychiatry oversimplifies things. the physical and psychological effects of grief were so intense and impossible to articulate for me. like of course it's no wonder that every culture has its own words and explanations for it. it's more than just grief or trauma. it's a demon. or a witch's curse. or being possessed by the ghosts of the deceased. or a mysterious illness that makes you act out violently. all across the world and forever and ever we've been trying to rationalise our own pain to ourselves. we just want it all to make sense. idk. people treat psychiatry like it's law despite its gaping sociocultural blindspots huh

[salvadorbonaparte]

I couldn't find any German Croatian textbooks that I liked so I got the Teach Yourself one and it's quite good but the funniest thing is that I forgot that English people don't have cases or genders and need those things explained

[ningtual]

lessera on esc next 🫶🏻

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

José Maria Veloso Salgado (Spanish, 1864-1945) Amor e Psyche, 1891 Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea – Museu do Chiado, Lisboa

[dovesnest]

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[littorea]

If I was a colonist and I saw an EN (UK) elk (Alces alces; Middle English elk [“great deer”] <- Old English eolh [“European elk (extirpated 900 A.D.)”]) I would probably cry.

[nerefee]

i think we should take fairy tales away from disney again, I think we should bring back the european fairy tale movies from the 60s with the horrifying practical effects and feverish set designs

[bones-ivy-breath]

Psyche by Louis Couperus