While watching the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics Milano Cortina 2026, one element held my attention longer than the others. The cauldrons hosting the Olympic flame. Their form carried meaning before any commentary attempted to explain it.

It is a strong exhibition, and walking into the Landesmuseum that morning I felt a quiet respect for the way Switzerland protects its cultural inheritance, not as something decorative or nostalgic, but as a living archive of ideas and practices, among which its contribution to psychology, with figures such as C. G. Jung, Hermann Rorschach, and others, holds a central place.

Seen intrapsychically, the Last Judgement becomes a portrait of the human psyche. The radiant and the tortured figures coexist within the same being. The Archangel Michael’s scale does not weigh others’ souls, but ours. Heaven and Hell are no longer separate realms but two poles of one psychic field. The light of consciousness and the shadow of the unconscious are both present, both alive.