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This ´inner world of the body´ is not an extention of the outer world  in the sense that it can be perceived and understood by  the sharp, clear, objective eye of the mind. The English poet Ted Hughes (1930-1998) argues that the inner world has always been interpreted by religion and mythology, which are very imaginative faculties for handling this inner world.

However, since the discrediting of Christianity and the triumph of the objective eye of the mind , that world has become continually more primitive and beyond our control. It has become a place of the unknown. Still we feel that´ our real selves lie down there´. Down there, mixed up with nature  is everything that has once made life worth living. Entry into this world is essential to life.

But religion and mythology, developed especially for peering into the inner world might end up just as specialised and destructive as the faculty for peering into the outer world. Hughes´s symbol here is the camera.

So the problem of entering into the inner world can therefore not be tackled in isolation, because, according to Hughes: ´the outer world and inner world are interdependent at every moment. We are simply the locus of their collision. Two worlds, with mutually contradictory laws, or laws that seem to be so, colliding afresh every second, struggling for peaceful coexistence´.