{"id":53434,"date":"2022-10-23T17:05:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T21:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=53434"},"modified":"2022-10-24T09:21:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T13:21:39","slug":"the-archetypes-are-in-us-and-eternal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2022\/10\/the-archetypes-are-in-us-and-eternal.html","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The archetypes are in us, and eternal\u2019<\/STRONG>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cI was dreadfully alive to nervous terrors. The night-time, solitude, and the dark were my hell.\u201d \u2014 Charles Lamb, as quoted by John Gross.<\/a><\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lamb believed that superstition might have generated the apparitions he feared. But at bottom he discounted that. \u201cThese terrors are of older standing. They are transcripts, types\u2014the archetypes are in us, and eternal,\u201d he wrote. I thought of Lamb <\/a>last week when I saw this painting by Gerard Bellaart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click the image to enlarge, then click again for a good look. <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Bellaart in his studio. [Photo: JH]<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n


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\u201cI was dreadfully alive to nervous terrors. The night-time solitude and the dark were my hell.\u201d \u2014 Charles Lamb, as quoted by John Gross.<\/p>\n

Lamb believed that superstition could have generated the apparitions he feared. But at bottom he discounted that. \u201cThese terrors are of older standing. They are transcripts, types\u2014the archetypes are in us, and eternal,\u201d he wrote. I thought of him last week when I saw this painting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,26,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-books","9":"category-main","10":"category-political-culture","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/le-maitre-in-his-studio-640.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-dTQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53434"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53489,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53434\/revisions\/53489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}