We often think of survival mode as a switch that is flipped and it can be but the truth is often people are pushed slowly into a place of more desperation.
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I’ve been struggling on and off with alcohol abuse for four years now, and I recently thought of this song and the lyrics while I was going through withdrawal, and it felt like the love/hate relationship that I have with alcohol.
The first time I heard this song in 96 it struck me like a thunderbolt. The music is unlike anything else I have ever heard and the lyrics are crazy. Still consider it my favorite song of all time. ‘If when I say I might fade like a sigh if I stay here’… makes my hair stand up everytime
This is probably the most powerful song from tool that affects me, having lived through this for 10 yrs till my wife had a stroke in my arms 5 months ago. I love her still but at the same time hate her for the abuse i suffered. There were many great times but also many dark times. Through it all i never called her a name or lifted a finger against her. Just took it all.
This song is a textbook of Jungian Psychology directly applied to Maynard being an artist singer/songwriter.
This is Maynard’s conversation with his own subconscious. He is exploring the relationship of his conscious self and his subconscious…the good and the bad; he is exploring his own internal abusive relationship.
The album is titled Anima, Jung’s term for the feminine part of man’s personality. And likely uses Aenima, to reference the Latin origin of the word meaning breathe (see pneuma.)
Jung talks of “entering the gap” between the conscious and subconscious to be able to understand and correct it.
The infant to Jung is a symbol of the anarchist, lack of self awareness.
Jung believed that the artist archetype had some of the strongest connections to their subconscious and art was catharsis. Maynard art is tied to his subconscious, and to kill off this subconscious “we both may disappear.” “as i claw your fucking throat away.”
This is a deeply vulnerable introspection from Maynard. Thank you. What a piece of Art!
Great take and how I interpreted this! The emotional roller coaster caused by abuse and the survivors return from understanding this is not how it has to always be and the bravery to step away.
