Carteret Jean

French poet, alchemist, graphologist, philosopher and astrologer. Carterets father had several textile shops in Northern France. Jean experienced his family of father, mother, two sons and a daughter a closed environment: no strangers entered the house. At age 8, he got his first violin lessons. Jean felt in love with the musical language, a poetical language better than language he said. His violin teacher acknowledged the boys talent, and advised the father to sent Jean to the conservatory in Nancy. But the father had more practical plans with his eldest son. Jean should become a textile seller. Being forced to become a merchant instead of a "going with the flow " violin player, placed him in his first existential crisis, of which the book cover of his friend George Bode would say: "Jean Carteret (Charleville-Mezieres, 1906 – Paris, 1980) was busy his whole life, from crisis to crisis, to structure his phenomenal capacity to see analogy’s. This journey brought him in the fields of metaphysics, astrology and kaballah, and many other fields where analogical thinking is an essential component. To him the most important thing was language. From the start he tried to discover where the hidden structure of the language had its beginning. The flashing speed of his thinking and his need for a direct dialogue inhibited him to write, but he did leave many of his thoughts on tape". In 1921, growing fast because of puberty, Jean left school. Seven years, from 1921 till 1928, he sold textile in one of his fathers shop. But he became most interested in the typology of the clients in the shop. Instead of dressing them like his father, he psychologically undressed them, he told later. Jean did have a Platonic relation of six years with a conservatory student named Beatrice. He kept platonic till age 21 and 3 months (summer 1927). In 1928, Carteret broke with his family, left the textile shop, finished the preparatory examinations and went to Paris to study psychology at the Sorbonne. At that time psychology was not yet a well-defined discipline. Because of its affinity with philosophy and letters, philosophers like Henri Bergson gave lessons. But Carteret was disappointed stating that Bergson was not a psychologist, and that this psychology (thinking) was a strange approach to the human condition. After finishing some early (bachelor like) examinations, he refused to do any examinations, as he felt they were unreal, just showing that you just had learned the correct views and words of a cultural cohort. Carteret became interested in the sources of the words and the hidden structure of language. He would say: I do not invent anything, I discover things. He developed a new language, in which he opposed normative thinking, goal oriented and planned existence, against the meanders of natural life (la vie). When some years later, his parents visited him in Paris, his landlady spoke the prophetic words: "Your son is not destined for trade, he has munch more potential, and it is your duty to help him". Thereafter his parents respected his choice and sent him a monthly stipend of 1000 francs. Before that, Jean had tried several urban jobs, but without success as he indeed did not look and behave like a commercial person all his life. Thanks to his small stipend, Jean got time to study by travel, instead that he had to care for his survival. In 1933 he visited the more rural Mediterranean Balearic Islands and in 1934 the Canary Islands and Morocco.In Read less