near the end of the 19th century, a new continent was discovered by an enterprising and some say brave explorer. This new continent had been hidden in plain sight…and had been hidden there for millennia, perhaps as long as the human species has existed. this continent was the unconscious, and the intrepid explorer was the former neurologist, and founder of a new mode of observing, interpreting and understanding the human personality. this explorer was sigmund freud, the new continent was the unconscious, and his self styled "scientific" method for exploring it was, psychoanalysis. the discovery of this continent, whose contours, inhabitants and ecosystem had long been suspected and even semi-illustrated by a host of natural philosophers, poets, writers and artists of all kinds and from every generation since the beginning of the human historic record. but it was freud, who first, as he and his followers claimed, created a scientific method by which this new world could be observed, effectively described, diagnosed of its maladies and even in some cases healed and restored to a healthy ecosystem of physical and human psychic energy flows. as with any new world, there were dangerous indigenous threats to be encountered, savage reactions from a fearful, resistant to change, uncomprehending and irrational aboriginal population. Furthermore, in Freud's own homeland, there were other existing fiefdoms and petit-rulers , arbiters and protectors of previous and present dimly psychological paradigms which were promoting their own forms of so-called "rational" empirical methods, who dismissed the existence of this continent of the unconscious, at least in the radical ways that he described it to be. But Freud's scientific curiosity and appetite to enter into communication with and understanding of the denizens of this world would drive him with the same colonialist fever of columbus in his arrival to the americas. like columbus he was indifferent to the protestations and resistances of the inhabitants to his initial explorations and mappings of the geographic structures in the interior areas of the vast new continent, the Unconscious. As a prospective civilizing agent of these nearly completely unreflected and hence dangerous energies, Freud was on a mission for the Kingdom of Reason, with a deeply conceived and revolutionary project to bring the hidden psychic elements of the new world into self-awareness, or at least as much as the best and brightest of the inhabitants might be capable of. His goal was to create and inculcate a method self-awareness in the wildest border areas of the unconscious, by using a radical method of observing the dreams and spontaneous linguistic turns of the human mind turned upon itself under the careful guidance of properly trained psychoanalyst…a modern Jason under Thera's guidance seeking the golden fleece of self-awareness. Who were the first of these explorers…nothing else if not Argonauts of the deepest, most beautiful and most frightening and dangerous ocean in the world.

"Where id is, there shall ego be."

"Everywhere I go, I find a poet has been there before me." ()

"I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador -- an adventurer, if you want it translated -- with all the curiosity, daring, and tenacity characteristic of a man of this sort." (Sigmund Freud, letter to Wilhelm Fliess, Feb. 1, 1900)

Argus Panoptes (Ἄργος Πανόπτης), guardian of the heifer-nymph Io and son of Arestor,[1] was a primordial giant whose epithet, "Panoptes", "all-seeing", led to his being described with multiple, often one hundred, eyes. The epithet Panoptes was applied to the Titan of the Sun, Helios, and was taken up as an epithet by Zeus, Zeus Panoptes. "In a way," Walter Burkert observes, "the power and order of Argos the city are embodied in Argos the neatherd, lord of the herd and lord of the land, whose name itself is the name of the land."Walter Burkert, Homo Necans (1972) 1983:166-67.

The epithet Panoptes, reflecting his mythic role, set by Hera as a very effective watchman of Io, was described in a fragment of a lost poem Aigimios, attributed to Hesiod:[3]

"And set a watcher upon her, great and strong Argos, who with four eyes looks every way. And the goddess stirred in him unwearying strength: sleep never fell upon his eyes; but he kept sure watch always."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argus_Panoptes#In_popular_culture

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are

directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

-- Albert Einstein

No profit grows where is no pleasure taÕen;

In brief, sir, study what you most affect.

William Shakespeare, ÒThe Taming of the ShrewÒ

“Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.”