Nick Cave refuses to be drawn into polarities, a quality lacking in many current discourses (Nick Cave on love, art and the loss of his sons: ‘It’s against nature to bury your children’, 28 March). It is encouraging to see a cultural figure take this position; it requires both courage and wisdom to do so.
Cave reminds me of a Blakean figure grappling with the complexities of love, loss, spirituality and materialism. He is aware of some of his own vulnerabilities – and rather that disavow them, has faced and accepted them, which is reminiscent of Jung’s work.
