Polikoff, Daniel Joseph. In the Image of Orpheus: Rilke, a Soul History. Wilmette, IL: Chiron Publications, 2011, ISBN 9781888602524.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the Image of Orpheus is an important book not only because it addresses the scholarship of literature, art, archetypal psychology, and religion but also because it transforms the terms of their engagement.The poet Rainer Maria Rilke , born in the same year as C. G. Jung, belongs to that broad cultural resistance to Enlightenment rationalism and modernity that includes the poetry of W. B. Yeats, quantum physics, modernist art, and the discovery of the unconscious as vital to human existence.In a long and lively treatment of Rilke's life, passions and art, Polikoff makes a unique and significant contribution to our time examining Rilke through the lens of James Hillman's as yet too little known Archetypal Psychology.In the Image of Orpheus examines and tries to heal deep psychic deficits in who we have become.Above all, the book explores how James Hillman restores the term "soul" to its ancient tripartite connection to body (matter) and spirit."Soul" is the medial term between material body and ethereal spirit -the realm of images, of imagination.Soul is psyche not bound to an earthen body but rather mediating its relation to the cosmos.Soul is body and psyche conjoined; its matter is images, and they matter as the expression of divinities or archetypal powers.Imagination is therefore a divine rite; poetry that aspires to this soul-making through imagination's images is both authentic art and religion.The two are indissolubly wed.Yet as this comprehensive and fascinating work of cultural history demonstrates, such a notion of soul and art has been radically suppressed from the Western tradition.A particularly cogent analysis of this suppression occurs in chapter four of In the Image of Orpheus where Polikoff looks at Hillman's criticism of Augustine as one of the "Fathers" not only of theology but also of psychology.Augustine's apparently benign insistence on the "feeling heart" shifts religious concern for the fate of man to something that will become Hillman's bête noir, the human personality as "psychological" in the sense of being structured predominantly through "personal" factors and relationships.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".