The Consumer

The Symbols

Squirrel, Apple, Apple Tree, Afternoon, Fall Season, Harvest, Painting Tree Trunks White

Might Mean

Freedom: freedom of choice, room to maneuver, laxity, tolerance, endurance, permissiveness, loose, scattered, clutter, confusion

Abundance: quantity over quality, expansiveness, fertility, generosity, beneficence, prosperity, surplus/savings, over-consumption, excess, infinity, obsession, overwhelm, imbalance, hoarding, mediocrity, food as fuel

Desire: wanting, indulging, appetite, enjoyment, pleasure, nurturing, sensuality, hedonism, nourishment, consumption, hunger, cravings

For Example

Movie Clips & Videos:

We makes our nests bigger – Ratatouille

The story with money - The Laundromat

Help getting fascinated – Adaptation

I Love To Eat Scene – Julie and Julia,
The Love of Chocolate – Chocolat,
The Goddess, Giver of Forms – Joseph Campbell

Podcasts:
Kraftland (Invisibilia),
Tell Me I'm Fat,
The Giant Pool of Money (This American Life),
The Neuroscience of Pleasure, Pain And Addiction (Fresh Air)

"...the existence of human beings will never be satisfactorily explained in terms of isolated instincts or purposive mechanism such as hunger, power, sex, survival, perpetuation of the species, and so on. That is the main purpose is not to eat, drink, etc., but to be human. Above and beyond these drives, our inner psychic reality serves to manifest a living mystery that can be expressed only by a symbol, and for its expression the unconscious chooses the powerful image of the Cosmic Man."

– M.-L. von Franz, Man And His Symbols, p.215

Art:
La Folie des Grandeurs (Delusions of Grandeur, Magritte),
Self-Obliteration (Kusawa)