Optical Poems by Oskar Fischinger: Uncover the Avant-Garde Animator Despised by Hitler & Dissed by Disney

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At a time when a lot of ani­ma­tion was con­sumed with lit­tle anthro­po­mor­phized ani­mals sport­ing white gloves, Oskar Fischinger went in a com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent direc­tion. His work is all about danc­ing geo­met­ric shapes and summary types spin­ning round a flat fea­ture­much less again­floor. Consider a Mon­dri­an or Male­vich paint­ing that strikes, typically in time to…

Carl Jung Psychoanalyzes Hitler: “He is the Unconscious of 78 Million Germans.” “With out the German Folks He’d Be Nothing” (1938)

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Had been you to google “Carl Jung and Nazism”—and I’m not sug­gest­ing that you simply do—you’d discover your­self hip-deep within the prices that Jung was an anti-Semi­te and a Nazi sym­pa­thiz­er. Many websites con­demn or exon­er­ate him; many oth­ers cel­e­brate him as a blood and soil Aryan hero. It may be nau­se­at­ing­ly dif­fi­cult at occasions…