Nekyias EP 4: With No Name

Or, How Does Being an Outsider Serve? The second of a two-part series on the Outsider Complex and archetype, this episode explores the connection between the outsider and the prophet archetypes. We begin with a discussion of how the prophet can act as both medicine and poison to someone struggling with a chronic sense of "otheredness," before tackling the prison of language, what it means to be symbolically nameless, and how the Greek concept of "mêtis" helps the outsider to envision other worlds. Utilizing the work of Peter Kingsley, Carl Jung, and Federico Campagna, we end with a meditation on positionality, how the outsider can embrace prophecy, and a call to "integrate your namelessness."

Works mentioned in this episode include:

Reality & Catafalque by Peter Kingsley

Technic and Magic & Prophetic Culture by Federico Campagna

The Red Book/Liber Novus by Carl Jung

A Note: I briefly mention the current tragedy in Gaza to illustrate a point about language. While the content of this episode remains squarely in the realms of psychology and metaphysics, I do believe the discussion of language and its effects on the political realm extend way beyond what we cover here. This episode was long (even by my standards) and would have been an inappropriate place to cover this, but for those of you interested in where the line of thought I introduced might lead, or how it plays into politics, linked below is an interview I found with Federico Campagna that may help to give a broader view of his position on the "pre-political" as a doorway into emancipation and the ability to imagine a new world, where existence as "sacred" fact takes precedence over the signifier-as-God prison/labyrinth in which we find ourselves currently stuck. While I don't agree with everything mentioned in the interview, it's the best resource I could find in an effort to connect some of the themes discussed here to what is going on more globally, as well as where Campagna himself is headed with his take on metaphysics. I find Campagna's work to be a deep, rich, and radically empathetic approach to political work, and find a great deal of hope in his writings when the world seems to have ground itself down into a gory standstill. If you, too, are feeling nauseated by the seemingly intractable nature of these problems, I encourage you to give it a listen, or otherwise (and perhaps better yet), to pick up a copy of Technic and Magic, and see what doors that might open for you. Link below:

https://soundcloud.com/warmachinepodcast/ep-2-federico-campagna-iconographic-anarchism-pt-1?si=0b9cf044b6494233a18d2461e5aee597&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing