Carl Jung “Two Cases from Jung’s Clinical Practice” – Quotations

Carl Jung “Two Cases from Jung’s Clinical Practice” – Quotations: The very, very first thing I did after my return was to lay down to my wife all the aspects of my complexes, with the resolute consequence and with all psychoanalytic openness. It worked out extrem…

Jung’s Psychology in Britain by G. Stewart Prince

Jung’s Psychology in Britain by G. Stewart Prince: Jung’s Psychology in Britain by G. Stewart Prince It will be undisputed that H. G. Baynes, more than any other individual, established the roots of analytical psychology in Britain. His pioneering …

An interesting story about the Dean’s wife at Yale University during Dr. Jung’s Terry Lectures.

An interesting story about the Dean’s wife at Yale University during Dr. Jung’s Terry Lectures.: At the third [Terry Yale] lecture it was crowded with people standing and sitting everywhere.‘Yet,’ he said, ‘it was very difficult stuff and probably none of them understood it; but they “got it” …

Some Carl Jung Quotations

Some Carl Jung Quotations: Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain. ~Carl Jung, Contributions to Analyti…

Carl Jung on the “Art of Interpreting Dreams.”

Carl Jung on the “Art of Interpreting Dreams.”: [Carl Jung on the “Art of Interpreting Dreams.”]The art of interpreting dreams cannot be learnt from books.Methods and rules are good only when we can get along without them. Only the man who can d…

Chaos Philosophorum

Chaos Philosophorum: This painting, entitled “Materia Prima Lapidis Philosophorum,” is from the Circle of the Gold and Rosicrucians, a manuscript inspired by Aurea Catena a Homeri (Kirchweger, 1781). It is …

Some Carl Jung Quotations [Red Book, Liber Novus] XXXI

Some Carl Jung Quotations [Red Book, Liber Novus] XXXI: Therefore, and insofar as it is the manner of the Gods to go beyond mortals, they become paralyzed, and become as helpless as children. Divinity and humanity should remain preserved, if man should …

Carl Jung on the Hungarian Revolution

Carl Jung on the Hungarian Revolution: To Jolande Jacobi Dear Dr. Jacobi, 6 November 1956 In these terrible days when evil is once again inundating the world in every conceivable form, I want you to know that I am thinking…

Carl Jung: I don’t know whether I am writing you banalities or hieroglyphics

Carl Jung: I don’t know whether I am writing you banalities or hieroglyphics: Dear Professor Freud, 25 December 1909 My attempt at criticism, though it looked like an attack, was actually a defence, which is why I apparently had to tilt at the “omnipotenc…

Carl Jung: Philemon’s Sixth Sermon to the Dead

Carl Jung: Philemon’s Sixth Sermon to the Dead: But when Philemon saw that the dead remained silent and waited, he continued (and this is the sixth sermon to the dead):”The daimon of sexuality approaches our soul as a serpent. She is half …

Carl Jung: Mithras is sometimes shown with three heads, a trinity, rising out of a tree.

Carl Jung: Mithras is sometimes shown with three heads, a trinity, rising out of a tree.: LECTURE I 22 January 1930 You remember that in the last seminar we were interested in three or four cases of exteriorization of our discussion of the cross and crescent symbolism, the cases of chil…

Carl Jung: Mithras is sometimes shown with three heads, a trinity, rising out of a tree.

Carl Jung: Mithras is sometimes shown with three heads, a trinity, rising out of a tree.: LECTURE I 22 January 1930 You remember that in the last seminar we were interested in three or four cases of exteriorization of our discussion of the cross and crescent symbolism, the cases of chil…

Carl Jung on the “Persona.” Lexicon.

Carl Jung on the “Persona.” Lexicon.: Persona:The “I,” usually ideal aspects of ourselves, that we present to the outside world.The persona is . . . a functional complex that comes into existence for reasons of adaptation or personal c…

Carl Jung on Wholeness and Unity.

Carl Jung on Wholeness and Unity.: [Carl Jung on Wholeness and Unity.]Although “wholeness” seems at first sight to be nothing but an abstract idea (like anima and animus), it is nevertheless empirical in so far as it is …

Carl Jung on the “Desert” – Anthology

Carl Jung on the “Desert” – Anthology: [Carl Jung on “Deserts” – Anthology] But the spirit of the depths said: “No one can or should halt sacrifice. Sacrifice is not destruction; sacrifice is the foundation stone of what is to com…

Carl Jung on the Ego and “Free Will.”

Carl Jung on the Ego and “Free Will.”: [Carl Jung on the Ego and “Free Will.”]I have suggested calling the total personality which, though present, cannot be fully known, the self. The ego is, by definition, subordinate to the self and …

Carl Jung: .. creators of modern art are unconscious about the meaning of their creations.

Carl Jung: .. creators of modern art are unconscious about the meaning of their creations.: So f.i. “God,” then “magic,” “religious,” etc. I would propose the term “numinous” instead of “magic” or “religious,&…

Carl Jung: Love Should be Broken

Carl Jung: Love Should be Broken: Sacred Love Versus Profane Love (1602–03) by Giovanni Baglione Not the power of the flesh, but of love, should be broken for the sake of life, since life stands above love. A man needs …

Carl Jung on “Space” and “Architectural Archetypes”

Carl Jung on “Space” and “Architectural Archetypes”: To Peter de Brant Dear Sir, 20 June 1959 In dealing with space man has produced-since time immemorial -the circle and the square, which are connected with the idea of shelter and prot…

Some Carl Jung Quotations

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Carl Jung on "Participation Mystique." Lexicon

Carl Jung on "Participation Mystique." Lexicon: Participation mystique: A term derived from anthropology and the study of primitive psychology, denoting a mystical connection, or identity, between subject and object. (See also arch…

Some Carl Jung Quotations XXXIX

Some Carl Jung Quotations XXXIX: The West is always seeking uplift, but the East seeks a sinking or deepening. ~Carl Jung, CW 11, Para 396. The European seeks to raise himself above this world, while the Indian likes…

Gerhard Wehr on Carl Jung and Freud “The First Man of Real Importance”

Gerhard Wehr on Carl Jung and Freud “The First Man of Real Importance”: Sigmund Freud-“The First Man of Real Importance”   Freud was the first man of real importance I had encountered; in my experience up to that time, no one else could compare …

The Chonyid State is one of Karmic Illusion

The Chonyid State is one of Karmic Illusion: The Chonyid state is one of karmic illusion that is to say, illusions which result from the psychic residua of previous existences. According to the Eastern view, karma implies a sort of psychic th…

The Craft of Dying

The Craft of Dying: For Centuries “The Art of the Craft of Dying” was used as a guide for the dying or for the recently deceased in order to notify the dead that they had in effect died and to assist them …

Existence of God

Existence of God: A young female student accused Jung of being an atheist. Jung was confused and asked the student where she had gotten that idea. The student paraphrased a quote she had read in which Jung said he d…

Existence of God

Existence of God: A young female student accused Jung of being an atheist. Jung was confused and asked the student where she had gotten that idea. The student paraphrased a quote she had read in which Jung said he d…

Some Carl Jung Quotations VII

Some Carl Jung Quotations VII: The attitude he [the introvert] assumes toward the object is a certain rejection, therefore, which can even develop into a kind of fear of the object. His primary reaction toward the object is actu…

Carl Jung: Often people come for analysis who wish to be prepared to meet death.

Carl Jung: Often people come for analysis who wish to be prepared to meet death.: Often people come for analysis who wish to be prepared to meet death. They can make astonishingly good progress in a short time and then die peacefully. Inner development can advance …

Carl Jung in Memorium to Toni Wolff

Carl Jung in Memorium to Toni Wolff: “Perhaps Irene’s close tie with Toni Wolff was in his mind at this time, because our visit endedwith his taking me into the garden to show me the little sotne bas-relief in Toni’s…

Carl Jung on the “Sacrificer.”

Carl Jung on the “Sacrificer.”: [Carl Jung on the “Sacrificer.”]What I sacrifice is my own selfish claim, and by doing this I give up myself.Every sacrifice is therefore, to a greater or lesser degree, a self-sacrifice. The degre…

Carl Jung on “Opposites.” Lexicon.

Carl Jung on “Opposites.” Lexicon.: Opposites:Psychologically, the ego and the unconscious. (See also compensation, conflict, progression and transcendent function.)There is no consciousness without discrimination of opposites.[&#822…

Carl Jung: Often people come for analysis who wish to be prepared to meet death.

Carl Jung: Often people come for analysis who wish to be prepared to meet death.: Often people come for analysis who wish to be prepared to meet death. They can make astonishingly good progress in a short time and then die peacefully. Inner development can advance …

Some Carl Jung Quotations XXXVIII [Red Book; Liber Novus]

Some Carl Jung Quotations XXXVIII [Red Book; Liber Novus]: This tangible and apparent world is one reality, but fantasy is the other reality: So long as we leave the God outside us apparent and tangible, he is unbearable and hopeless. ~ Carl …

Carl Jung – Hans Guisan Schmid Correspondence – Anthology

Carl Jung – Hans Guisan Schmid Correspondence – Anthology: It is more likely that in the unconscious of the introvert there is a love for the object that compensates his fear of it, while in the unconscious of the extravert there is a fear that compensates…

Carl Jung: Therefore you must divide yourself and think of the Self.

Carl Jung: Therefore you must divide yourself and think of the Self.: Mr. Allemann: If one were detached entirely it would be nirvana, no more life.Dr. Jung: Yes, because there you simply come to an end. Those people who strive after nirvana get into a sort of quieti…

Carl Jung on “Objectivation.” Lexicon

Carl Jung on “Objectivation.” Lexicon: Objectivation:A process of differentiating the ego from both other persons and contents of the unconscious. (See also active imagination.)Its goal is to detach consciousness from the object so that…

Carl Jung on how the Symbol of the Fish springs out of the Unconscious

Carl Jung on how the Symbol of the Fish springs out of the Unconscious: In conclusion, I would like to give a concrete example of the way the symbol of the fish springs out of the unconscious autochthonously. The case in question is that of a young woman who had uncomm…

Carl Jung on “Archetypes” – Anthology

Carl Jung on “Archetypes” – Anthology: The unconscious, as the totality of all archetypes, is the deposit of all human experience right back to its remotest beginnings. Not, indeed, a dead deposit, a sort of abandoned rubbish-heap, but …

Carl Jung on the “Dark” in The Red Book – Anthology

Carl Jung on the “Dark” in The Red Book – Anthology: Carl Jung on the “Dark” in The Red Book – Anthology Through comprehending the dark, the nocturnal, the abyssal in you, you become utterly simple. And you prepare to sleep through the millennia like…

Carl Jung on “Elijah” The Red Book – Anthology

Carl Jung on “Elijah” The Red Book – Anthology: He [Jung] showed a diagram of a cross with Rational/Thinking (Elijah) at the top, Feeling (Salome) at the bottom, Irrational / Intuition (Superior) at the left, and Sensation / Inferior (Serpent) a…

“Philemon” in The Red Book – Anthology

“Philemon” in The Red Book – Anthology: Philemon and other figures of my fantasies brought home to me the crucial insight that there are things in the psyche which I do not produce, but which produce themselves and have their own life. ~…

Carl Jung Quotations XXXVII

Carl Jung Quotations XXXVII: It is not I who create myself, rather I happen to myself. ~Carl Jung, CW11, Para 391Empirically considered, however, the archetype did not ever come into existence as a phenomenon of organic life, …

The God Image is…………..

The God Image is…………..: Carl Jung and Meister EckhartThe God-image is the symbolic expression of a particular psychic state, or Function, which is characterized by its absolute ascendancy over the will of the subject, thi…

The Origins of the Cross……

The Origins of the Cross……: Hermetic Meaning of the Sign of the Cross by Mark StavishGestures and symbols have always played a major part in the Western Mystery traditions. Yet, of all symbols, the cross has been the most pro…

When Freud coined the phrase that the Ego…..

When Freud coined the phrase that the Ego…..: When Freud coined the phrase that the ego was “the true seat of anxiety,” he was giving voice to a very true and profound intuition. Fear of self-sacrifice lurks deep in every ego, and …

The Discovery of God’s Throne

The Discovery of God’s Throne: Because we cannot discover God’s throne in the sky with a radio-telescope or establish (for certain) that a beloved father or mother is still about in a more or less corporeal form, people as…

Carl Jung on the “Lion” – Anthology

Carl Jung on the “Lion” – Anthology: After all the rebirths you still remain the lion crawling on the earth, the Chameleon], a caricature, one prone to changing colors, a crawling shimmering lizard, but precisely not a lion, whose nat…

Carl Jung’s Foreword to Elida Evans: “The Problem of the Nervous Child.”

Carl Jung’s Foreword to Elida Evans: “The Problem of the Nervous Child.”: I have read the manuscript of Mrs. Evans’ book, The Problem of the Nervous Child, with great pleasure and interest.   Mrs. Evans’ knowledge of her subject-matter is based on a soli…

Carl Jung on “Numinous.” Lexicon

Carl Jung on “Numinous.” Lexicon: Numinous:Descriptive of persons, things or situations having a deep emotional resonance, psychologically associated with experiences of the self.Numinous, like numinosity, comes from Latin numinosu…

Carl Jung: “You see, in spite of being a man in advanced age, you still have a young soul,,,]

Carl Jung: “You see, in spite of being a man in advanced age, you still have a young soul,,,]: Dear Mr. N., 5 July 1932.You will realize the extraordinary difficulty of telling anything about dreams of people one doesn’t know.Your dream has interested me indeed.The second part of it, the sec…

Carl Jung on Parents and Children

Carl Jung on Parents and Children: AnonymousDear Fraulein N., 18 August 1936With regrettable tardiness I am answering your letter of May 18th.My correspondence is more like a flood than anything that can be kept within reasonable bo…

Carl Jung: “As I am getting on in age and as I am going to be gathered to my ancestors and avatars…”

Carl Jung: “As I am getting on in age and as I am going to be gathered to my ancestors and avatars…”: To Father Victor WhiteMy dear Victor, 27 December 1947I am so “distrait” by my writing that I forgot a most important point about which I should have asked you: There exists a plan to c…

Some Carl Jung Quotations XXXVI

Some Carl Jung Quotations XXXVI: It is the privilege and the task of maturer people, who have passed the meridian of life, to create culture. ~Carl Jung, CW 10, Para 272 Consciousness is a precondition of being. ~Car…

Gerhard Wehr on Carl Jung and “The Inevitable Break” with Freud

Gerhard Wehr on Carl Jung and “The Inevitable Break” with Freud: The Inevitable Break   Predictably, Freud and Jung’s visit to America brought far-reaching consequences for the reception psychoanalysis received in the United States. Abraham A. …

The symbol is the word that goes out of the mouth….

The symbol is the word that goes out of the mouth….: The symbol is the word that goes out of the mouth, that one does not simply speak, but that rises out of the depths of the self as a word of power and great need and places itself unexpectedly on t…

The Red Book and Psychological Types

The Red Book and Psychological Types: Dr. Jung concludes the “Liber Secundus” portion of The Red Book with the following words:“An opus is needed, that one can squander decades on, and do it out of necessity I must catch up with a piec…

Fantasy [the basis of Active Imagination] in Psychological Types and The Red Book:

Fantasy [the basis of Active Imagination] in Psychological Types and The Red Book:: Fantasy [the basis of Active Imagination] in Psychological Types and The Red Book:This autonomous activity of the psyche, which can be explained neither as a reflexive reaction to sense-stimuli nor…

Life stands above Love ~Carl Jung

Life stands above Love ~Carl Jung: Archetypal lovers Romeo and Juliet portrayed by Frank DickseeOne can speak in beautiful words about love, but about life? And life stands above love. But love is the inescapable mother of life. Lif…

Carl Jung on “Intuitives who construct Daydreams”

Carl Jung on “Intuitives who construct Daydreams”: The intuitives who construct daydreams which follow their fancy-with these intuitives who construct daydreams there develops, of necessity, an inferiority complex, and in order to make up for it mo…

Carl Jung on “Nigredo.” Lexicon

Carl Jung on “Nigredo.” Lexicon: Nigredo:An alchemical term, corresponding psychologically to the mental disorientation that typically arises in the process of assimilating unconscious contents, particularly aspects of the shadow.…

[Carl Jung: …the souls of the dead "know" only what they knew at the moment of death, and nothing beyond that…]

[Carl Jung: …the souls of the dead "know" only what they knew at the moment of death, and nothing beyond that…]: [Carl Jung: …the souls of the dead “know” only what they knew at the moment of death, and nothing beyond that…]Later, when I wrote the Septem Sermones ad Mortuos, once again it was the …

Gerhard Wehr on Carl Jung and “Transformation Begins Within”

Gerhard Wehr on Carl Jung and “Transformation Begins Within”: Transformation Begins Within   Having arrived at the threshold that marks the transition from the first half to the significant second half of C. G. Jung’s life, we pause, as observers a…

Carl Jung on Individuation and be "Bidden" to ones "Vocation."

Carl Jung on Individuation and be "Bidden" to ones "Vocation.": [Carl Jung on Individuation and be “Bidden” to ones “Vocation.”]What is it, in the end, that induces a man to go his own way and to rise out of unconscious identity with the…

Carl Jung on Astrology and the Birth of Christ

Carl Jung on Astrology and the Birth of Christ: [Carl Jung on Astrology and the Birth of Christ]I have dwelt at some length on the dualistic aspects of the Christ-figure because, through the fish symbolism, Christ was assimilated into a world of…

Carl Jung on the Horoscope, Anima Mundi and Christ overcoming the Wheel of Generation.

Carl Jung on the Horoscope, Anima Mundi and Christ overcoming the Wheel of Generation.: [Carl Jung on the Horoscope, Anima Mundi and Christ overcoming the Wheel of Generation.]Ever since the Timaeus it has been repeatedly stated that the soul is a sphere. As the anima mundi., the soul…

Carl Jung: The confrontation with the unconscious

Carl Jung: The confrontation with the unconscious: To Dr. S. In the confrontation with the unconscious there are indeed a considerable number of arid patches to be worked through. They cannot be circumvented. At such time it is a good…

Scrutinies ~Carl Jung

Scrutinies ~Carl Jung: Scrutinies ~~Carl JungScrutiniesI resist, I cannot accept this hollow nothing that I am. What am I? What is my I? I always presuppose my I. Now it stands before me-I before my I. I speak now to you…

Carl Jung: Such a fantasy can be the highest expression of the unity of a man’s individuality,

Carl Jung: Such a fantasy can be the highest expression of the unity of a man’s individuality,: It is probable that passive fantasies always have their origin in an unconscious process that is antithetical to consciousness, but invested with approximately the same amount of ener…

Gerhard Wehr on Carl Jung’s “Night Sea Journey’

Gerhard Wehr on Carl Jung’s “Night Sea Journey’: The “Night Sea Journey” and the Confrontation with the Unconscious   The split with Sigmund Freud represented a profound, decisive break in C. G. Jung’s life. F…

Carl Jung: One word more on the theme of immortality.

Carl Jung: One word more on the theme of immortality.: Dr. Jung: Yes, she was in fact dead.I think you have got Noot, Billali, and Holly rightly placed, that is, as figures of the wise old man. Holly is the most human of them.Haggard is inclined to ide…

The Spirit and the Torment of Sanctification

The Spirit and the Torment of Sanctification: “Why should our spirit not take upon itself torment and restlessness for the sake of sanctification? But all this will come over you, for I already hear the steps of those who bear the keys t…

Carl Jung on God, Incarnation, Holy Ghost,,,

Carl Jung on God, Incarnation, Holy Ghost,,,: [Carl Jung on God, Incarnation, Holy Ghost]”The deifying effect of the Holy Ghost [Hebrew = Ruach HaKodesh] is naturally assisted by the Imago Dei stamped on the elect. God, in the shape of t…

In Memoriam C.G. Jung by Culver M. Barker

In Memoriam C.G. Jung by Culver M. Barker: In Memoriam C.G. Jung by Culver M. Barker As a contribution to the symposium on aspects of C. G. Jung’s life and work which have a significant bearing on both the personal and professional le…

The Spirit and the Torment of Sanctification

The Spirit and the Torment of Sanctification: “Why should our spirit not take upon itself torment and restlessness for the sake of sanctification? But all this will come over you, for I already hear the steps of those who bear the keys t…

Carl Jung: One word more on the theme of immortality.

Carl Jung: One word more on the theme of immortality.: Dr. Jung: Yes, she was in fact dead.I think you have got Noot, Billali, and Holly rightly placed, that is, as figures of the wise old man. Holly is the most human of them.Haggard is inclined to ide…

Ajna Third Eye Chakra – Winged Seed

Ajna Third Eye Chakra – Winged Seed: 6. Ajna Third Eye Chakra – Winged Seed:The Sixth Chakra is the Ajna, and looks like a winged seed, it does not contain an animal symbol. Instead of the dark germinating seed, it is here in fu…

Carl Jung on “Meditation.” Lexicon

Carl Jung on “Meditation.” Lexicon: Meditation:A technique of focused introspection.Jung distinguished between meditation practiced in the East or in traditional Western religious exercises, and its use as a tool for self-understandi…

Carl Jung on “Image of God” – Anthology

Carl Jung on “Image of God” – Anthology: My soul is my supreme meaning, my image of God, neither God himself nor the supreme meaning. God becomes apparent in the supreme meaning of the human community. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Footnote 92…

Excerpts from "Psychology and Alchemy" by Carl Jung

Excerpts from "Psychology and Alchemy" by Carl Jung: I am therefore inclined to assume that the real root of alchemy is to be sought less in philosophical doctrines than in the projections of individual investigators. I mean by this that while workin…

Carl Jung’s "Dream Interpretation Ancient and Modern" highly recommended

Carl Jung’s "Dream Interpretation Ancient and Modern" highly recommended: I was quite disappointed in “Lament of the Dead” as while its beginning was filled with promise it did not stay on the topic as stated in its title and veered off into unrelated and oft…

Carl Jung on "Participation Mystique" – Anthology

Carl Jung on "Participation Mystique" – Anthology: A variety of forms is revealed through the realization of the self. The self is dissolved into many egos. When the self has become conscious it leads to “participation mystique.…

Carl Jung on "Suicide."

Carl Jung on "Suicide.": Carl Jung’s to “Mrs. N.”, a 47 year old woman concerned about the impact of her suicide attempt at age 21. This statement is contained in a letter dated 13 October 1951.“It isn’t possible to kill p…

Carl Jung on Middle Age

Carl Jung on Middle Age: The nearer we approach to the middle of life, and the better we have succeeded in entrenching ourselves in our personal attitudes and social positions, the more it appears as if we had discovered t…

Carl Jung: Another dream-determinant that deserves mention is telepathy.

Carl Jung: Another dream-determinant that deserves mention is telepathy.: Another dream-determinant that deserves mention is telepathy. The authenticity of this phenomenon can no longer be disputed today. It is; of course, very simple to deny its existence without examin…

Carl Jung: Nietzsche was no atheist, but his God was dead.

Carl Jung: Nietzsche was no atheist, but his God was dead.: Nietzsche was no atheist, but his God was dead. The result of this demise was a split in himself, and he felt compelled to call the other self ‘Zarathustra,’ or at times, ‘Dionysus.’ … The t…

Carl Jung: “It is not I who create myself, rather I happen to myself. “

Carl Jung: “It is not I who create myself, rather I happen to myself. “: The term “self” seemed to me a suitable one for this unconscious substrate, whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands to the self as the moved to the mover, or a…

Gerhard Wehr on Carl Jung’s “Work”

Gerhard Wehr on Carl Jung’s “Work”: The Work   In the early years of his activity as a psychiatrist and analytical psychologist, Jung repeatedly found himself pressed to define his position and to distinguish it from those of Fr…

Anima Mundi Mandala

Anima Mundi Mandala: “Now, all these myth-pictures represent a drama of the human psyche on the further side of consciousness, showing man as both the one to be redeemed and the redeemer. The first formulation is…

Vishuddha Throat Chakra – Ether Element – White Elephant

Vishuddha Throat Chakra – Ether Element – White Elephant: 5. Vishuddha Throat Chakra – Ether Element – White Elephant [Not simply an Elephant but a white elephantHere one rises above the emperic world, and lands into a world of concepts. With …

Carl Jung on the “Ego.” Anthology

Carl Jung on the “Ego.” Anthology: [Carl Jung quotations on the “Ego.”]Natural man is not a “self”—he is the mass and a particle in the mass, collective to such a decree that he is not even sure of his own ego. ~Carl Jun…

Letter from Sigmund Freud dated June 15, 1911

Letter from Sigmund Freud dated June 15, 1911: [Letter from Sigmund Freud dated June 15, 1911]Vienna IX, Berggasse ig June 15, 1911Dear Friend:… In matters of occultism I have become humble ever since the great lesson I received from Fere…

Carl Jung: The religious person enjoys a great advantage…

Carl Jung: The religious person enjoys a great advantage…: The religious person enjoys a great advantage when it comes to answering the crucial question that hangs over our time like a threat: he has a clear idea of the way his subjective existence is grou…

Carl Jung: This grasping of the whole is obviously the aim of science as well…

Carl Jung: This grasping of the whole is obviously the aim of science as well…: This grasping of the whole is obviously the aim of science as well, but it is a goal that necessarily lies very far off because science, whenever possible, proceeds experimentally and in all cases …

Carl Jung on “Myth.” Lexicon

Carl Jung on “Myth.” Lexicon: Myth:An involuntary collective statement based on an unconscious psychic experience.The primitive mentality does not invent myths, it experiences them. Myths are original revelations of the precons…

Carl Jung: I myself am the enemy who must be loved—what then?

Carl Jung: I myself am the enemy who must be loved—what then?: Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest art to be simple, and so acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral …

Carl Jung; Yesterday morning I shook the dust of America from my feet,

Carl Jung; Yesterday morning I shook the dust of America from my feet,: Steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse: North German Lloyd; BREMEN September 22, 1909 . . . Yesterday morning I shook the dust o America from my feet, with a light heart and an aching head, for t…

Carl Jung: He could have done this long ago, so it is just another low trick.

Carl Jung: He could have done this long ago, so it is just another low trick.: Dear Professor Freud, 27March 1912 Many thanks for the second edition of Cradiva. I quite agree with your proposal. I shall notify the local groups accordingly, i.e., I presume that I have to consu…

Carl Jung’s Letter to Emma Jung from North Africa (1920)

Carl Jung’s Letter to Emma Jung from North Africa (1920): LETTER TO EMMA JUNG FROM NORTH AFRICA (1920) Grand Hotel Sousse Sousse Monday, March 15, 1920 This Africa is incredible . . . Unfortunately I cannot write coherently to you, for it is all too much.…

Gerhard and Carl Jung’s Encounter with Alchemy

Gerhard and Carl Jung’s Encounter with Alchemy: The Encounter with Alchemy   One of the most remarkable elements of C. G. Jung’s activity is undoubtedly the numerous works that he devoted to alchemy and its significance for psychology…

Gerhard Wehr on “Bollingen” and the Travels of Carl Jung

Gerhard Wehr on “Bollingen” and the Travels of Carl Jung: Traveling and Tower-Building   Without stirring abroad One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows. T…

Carl Jung: Does he realize what lies in store should this catastrophe ever befall him?

Carl Jung: Does he realize what lies in store should this catastrophe ever befall him?: As at the beginning of the Christian Era, so again today we are faced with the problem of the moral backwardness which has failed to keep pace with our scientific, technical and socia…

Some Carl Jung Quotations XXXV

Some Carl Jung Quotations XXXV: The psyche is part of the inmost mystery of life, and it has its own peculiar structure and form like every other organism. ~Carl Jung, CW 9i, Para 187. I am of the opinion that the p…

Manipura Solar Plexus Chakra – Fire element – Ram

Manipura Solar Plexus Chakra – Fire element – Ram: Manipura Solar Plexus Chakra – Fire element – Ram Passed through the water, the Sun arises. The first light after baptizing. The Pharaoh climbs in the sun-bark of Ra, travels thr…

Carl Jung on “Mother Complex.” Lexicon.

Carl Jung on “Mother Complex.” Lexicon.: Mother complex: A group of feeling-toned ideas associated with the experience and image of mother. The mother complex is a potentially active component of everyone’s psyche, informed …

Carl Jung: Although you have evidently taken my first secret letter very much to heart or very much amiss,

Carl Jung: Although you have evidently taken my first secret letter very much to heart or very much amiss,: Dear Professor Freud, 3 January 1913 Although you have evidently taken my first secret letter very much to heart or very much amiss, I cannot refrain, while avoiding that topic, from offering you m…

Carl Jung: …scientific suggestion therapy employs the wares of the medicine-man…

Carl Jung: …scientific suggestion therapy employs the wares of the medicine-man…: Even the so-called highly scientific suggestion therapy employs the wares of the medicine-man and the exorcising shaman. And why not? The public is not much more advanced either and continues to ex…

Was the Self Sleeping?

Was the Self Sleeping?: Miss Hannah: Was it the self sleeping?Dr. Jung: Of course, the self is then asleep. And in which stage is the self asleep and the ego conscious? Here, of course, in this conscious world where we ar…

Carl Jung: How else could it have occurred to man to divide the cosmos…

Carl Jung: How else could it have occurred to man to divide the cosmos…: How else could it have occurred to man to divide the cosmos, on the analogy of day and night, summer and winter, into a bright day-world and a dark night-world peopled with fabulous m…

Carl Jung on how the existence of Archetypes can be proved

Carl Jung on how the existence of Archetypes can be proved: We must now turn to the question of how the existence of archetypes can be proved. Since archetypes are supposed to produce certain psychic forms, we must discuss how and where one can get hold of …

Carl Jung: In order to seize hold of the fantasies, I frequently imagined a steep descent.

Carl Jung: In order to seize hold of the fantasies, I frequently imagined a steep descent.: In order to seize hold of the fantasies, I frequently imagined a steep descent. I even made several attempts to get to the very bottom.The first time I reached, as it were, a depth of about a thous…

Carl Jung: In order to seize hold of the fantasies, I frequently imagined a steep descent.

Carl Jung: In order to seize hold of the fantasies, I frequently imagined a steep descent.: In order to seize hold of the fantasies, I frequently imagined a steep descent. I even made several attempts to get to the very bottom.The first time I reached, as it were, a depth of about a thous…

Carl Jung: It also contains some completely false statements quite apart from the usual fanatic bellowings.

Carl Jung: It also contains some completely false statements quite apart from the usual fanatic bellowings.: Dear Professor Freud, 13 November 1911 I am writing a few words in haste. Enclosed is a paper by Bleuler, inflammatory abstinence stuff which he wants to put in the Jahrbuch in reply ‘to Fere…

Carl Jung on “Mary” – Anthology

Carl Jung on “Mary” – Anthology: Carl Jung on “Mary” – Anthology Is there any more beautiful love story than the love story of Mary? Wonderfully secret, divine, it is the only love affair of God that we know about. ~Carl Jung, Vis…

Carl Jung on “Madness” “Insanity” – Anthology

Carl Jung on “Madness” “Insanity” – Anthology: This is how madness begins, this is madness … You cannot get conscious of these unconscious facts without giving yourself to them. If you can overcome your fear of the unconscious and can let…

Carl Jung Quotations [Sourced with images]

Carl Jung Quotations [Sourced with images]: Jesus voluntarily exposed himself to the assaults [from within] of the imperialistic madness that filled everyone, conqueror and conquered alike. ~Carl Jung, The Development of the Pe…

Carl Jung on “Meditation” – Anthology

Carl Jung on “Meditation” – Anthology: You can never come to your self by building a meditation hut on top of Mount Everest; you will only be visited by your own ghosts and that is not individuation: you are all alone with yourself and …

Carl Jung: From the beginning I had a sense of destiny

Carl Jung: From the beginning I had a sense of destiny: From the beginning I had a sense of destiny, as though my life was assigned to me by fate and had to be fulfilled.This gave me an inner security, and, though I could never prove it to myself, it pr…

Muladhara Root Chakra – Earth element – Elephant

Muladhara Root Chakra – Earth element – Elephant: 1. Muladhara Root Chakra – Earth element – ElephantThe square in the middle is the symbol of the Earth, and the Elephant is the supporting power of the surface, the psychic energy of th…

Carl Jung on “Mana Personality.” Lexicon

Carl Jung on “Mana Personality.” Lexicon: Mana-personality. A personified archetypal image of a supernatural force. The mana-personality is a dominant of the collective unconscious, the well-known archetype of the mighty man in the form of…

Carl Jung on Alchemy and Transformation

Carl Jung on Alchemy and Transformation: In “The Relations between the Ego and the Unconscious” I had discussed only my preoccupation with the unconscious, and something of the nature of that preoccupation, but had not yet sai…

Carl Jung: By virtue of his reflective faculties, man is raised out of the animal world…

Carl Jung: By virtue of his reflective faculties, man is raised out of the animal world…: By virtue of his reflective faculties, man is raised out of the animal world, and by his mind he demonstrates that nature has put a high premium precisely upon the development of cons…

When one has awoken from Muladhara…

When one has awoken from Muladhara…: Swadhisthana Sacral Chakra – Water element – Leviathan/Crocodile When one has awoken from Muladhara, one goes into the water, which represents the unconscious where one faces the…

Carl Jung: By this act of incarnation man that is, his ego is inwardly replaced by "God," and God becomes outwardly man…]

Carl Jung: By this act of incarnation man that is, his ego is inwardly replaced by "God," and God becomes outwardly man…]: [Carl Jung and “…By this act of incarnation man that is, his ego is inwardly replaced by “God,” and God becomes outwardly man…] Hence I prefer the term “t…

Consciousness and the Renewed King…

Consciousness and the Renewed King…: For purely psychological reasons I have, in other of my writings, tried to equate the masculine consciousness with the concept of Logos and the feminine with that of Eros. By logos I meant discrimi…

Carl Jung’s first Mandala

Carl Jung’s first Mandala: More than twenty years earlier (in 1918), in the course of my investigations of the collective unconscious, I discovered the presence of an apparently universal symbol of a similar type the mandala…

Carl Jung on the integration of Unconscious contents.

Carl Jung on the integration of Unconscious contents.: What happens within oneself when one integrates previously unconscious contents with the consciousness is something which can scarcely be described in words.It can only be experienced.It is a subje…

Carl Jung: You cannot be an official in a madhouse and a scientist at the same time.

Carl Jung: You cannot be an official in a madhouse and a scientist at the same time.: Dear Professor Freud, 27Apri11912 It was good of you to have your letter waiting for me on my return. I spent some very pleasant days in Florence, Pisa, and Genoa and now feel quite rested. With re…

Carl Jung Anthologies “Egg” Through “Guru” – [Part 2]

Carl Jung Anthologies “Egg” Through “Guru” – [Part 2]: The following is meant for personal study only. It is a work in progress and will be updated periodically: Egg, Ego, Einstein,  Emma Jung, Emotion, Empiricist, Emptiness, Endurance, Enlighte…

Carl Jung on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel – Anthology

Carl Jung on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel – Anthology: Hegel seems to me a romantic thinker in contrast to Kant and hence a typical child of his time; and as a romantic he is already on the way to psychology. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. I, Page 194 Aristo…

Carl Jung: "I have often been asked where the archetype comes…"

Carl Jung: "I have often been asked where the archetype comes…": I have often been asked where the archetype comes from and whether it is acquired or not. This question cannot be answered directly.Archetypes are, by definition, factors and motifs that arrange th…

Carl Jung: "I have often been asked where the archetype comes…"

Carl Jung: "I have often been asked where the archetype comes…": I have often been asked where the archetype comes from and whether it is acquired or not. This question cannot be answered directly.Archetypes are, by definition, factors and motifs that arrange th…

Carl Jung: Science seeks the truth because it feels it does not possess it. The church possesses the truth and therefore does not seek it

Carl Jung: Science seeks the truth because it feels it does not possess it. The church possesses the truth and therefore does not seek it: Dear Herr Irminger, 22 September 1944 After having been prevented from doing so by a long illness, I have now read your MS. First of all, I would like to thank you for having taken so much trouble …

Cooking is an anticipation of digestion….

Cooking is an anticipation of digestion….: The Kitchen and Kundalini:Cooking is an anticipation of digestion, a sort of predigestion. For example, in Africa the papaya tree has the very peculiar quality that its fruit and leaves are full of…

Carl Jung: "When I was working on the stone tablets…."

Carl Jung: "When I was working on the stone tablets….": When I was working on the stone tablets, I became aware of the fateful links between me and my ancestors.I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left in…

Carl Jung on “Loss of Soul.” Lexicon

Carl Jung on “Loss of Soul.” Lexicon: Loss of soul: A concept borrowed from anthropology, referring psychologically to a state of general malaise. The peculiar condition covered by this term is accounted for in the mind o…

Carl Jung "The World is as it has ever been."

Carl Jung "The World is as it has ever been.": [Carl Jung and “The World is as it has ever been]The world is as it ever has been, but our consciousness undergoes peculiar changes.First, in remote times (which can still be observed among p…

A person must pay dearly for the divine gift…

A person must pay dearly for the divine gift…: “Every creative person is a duality or a synthesis of contradictory aptitudes. On the one side he is a human being with a personal life, while on the other side he is an impersonal, creative …

Carl Jung: I know nothing of a "super-reality."

Carl Jung: I know nothing of a "super-reality.": I know nothing of a “super-reality.” Reality contains everything I can know, for everything that acts upon me is real and actual. If it does not act upon me, then I notice nothing and c…

Gerhard Wehr and Eranos-A “Navel of the World”

Gerhard Wehr and Eranos-A “Navel of the World”: Eranos-A “Navel of the World”   “Eranos is really an extended, relatively narrow garden that falls away in terraces down to the shore of Lago Maggiore from the road that skir…

Olga Frobe that she not only was. able to escape the influence of the theosophical…

Olga Frobe that she not only was. able to escape the influence of the theosophical…: In any case Alfons Rosenberg, who was closely acquainted with the lady, reported a serious clash between Mrs. Frobe and C.G. Jung. The latter had unmistakably voiced his displeasure with the large-…

Carl Jung on Opposites

Carl Jung on Opposites: [Carl Jung on Opposites]Opposites:Psychologically, the ego and the unconscious. There is no consciousness without discrimination of opposites.[“Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype,&…

Oh, oh….Dr. Jung gets a little “Tipsy.”

Oh, oh….Dr. Jung gets a little “Tipsy.”: Even today a kind of legend survives of a ‘night sea journey,’ which is not really accurate; one can hardly imagine a night sea journey as ear-splittingly loud as our nekyia was.…

Carl Jung: "We no longer live on what we have…."

Carl Jung: "We no longer live on what we have….": “We no longer live on what we have, but on promises, no longer in the present day, but in the darkness of the future, which, we expect, will at last bring the proper sunrise.We refuse to reco…

Carl Jung on “Libido.” Lexicon.

Carl Jung on “Libido.” Lexicon.: Libido:Psychic energy in general. Libido can never be apprehended except in a definite form; that is to say, it is identical with fantasy-images. And we can only release it from the grip of the unc…

Carl Jung on “Detachment.”

Carl Jung on “Detachment.”: Lecture VII 9th June, 1939 You will remember that I read you a long passage from Meister Eckhart’s sermon on “Detachment” at the end of the last lecture. This is, as…

Theory gives Facts their Value

Theory gives Facts their Value: Guglielmo Ferrero “Therefore theory, which gives to facts their value and significance, is often very useful, even if it is partially false, for ii throws light on phenomena which no one obse…

Some Carl Jung Quotations XXXIV

Some Carl Jung Quotations XXXIV: The ashes are suicide to me. I could perhaps put out the fire but I cannot deny to myself the experience of the God. Nor can I cut myself off from this experience. I also do not want …

Carl Jung: You only can help people to understand themselves…..

Carl Jung: You only can help people to understand themselves…..: To J. Allen GilbertMy dear Dr. Gilbert, 19 June 1927Analysis is not only a “diagnosis” but rather an understanding and a moral support in the honest experimental attempt one calls &#822…

Gerhard Wehr on Carl Jung and “The Remarkable Journey to India”

Gerhard Wehr on Carl Jung and “The Remarkable Journey to India”: The Remarkable Journey to India   G. Jung’s assistant and later successor at the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich, C. A. Meier, gave an account of a private seminar in 1930…

Gerhard Wehr on Carl Jung: “Again and Again, the Religious Question”

Gerhard Wehr on Carl Jung: “Again and Again, the Religious Question”: Again and Again, the Religious Question   The basis of analytical psychology’s significance for the psychology of religion, including its practical therapeutic application, lies in C. G.…

Carl Jung Quotations 35

Carl Jung Quotations 35: The psyche is part of the inmost mystery of life, and it has its own peculiar structure and form like every other organism. ~Carl Jung, CW 9i, Para 187.I am of the opinion that the psyche is the mo…

Carl Jung on Contemporary Psychological Problems

Carl Jung on Contemporary Psychological Problems: Jung on Contemporary Psychological ProblemsEvans: You are familiar, of course, with the work of Dr. J. B. Rhine at Duke University. Some of his work in extrasensory perception and clairvoyance, or …

Carl Jung on Contemporary Psychological Problems

Carl Jung on Contemporary Psychological Problems: Jung on Contemporary Psychological ProblemsEvans: You are familiar, of course, with the work of Dr. J. B. Rhine at Duke University. Some of his work in extrasensory perception and clairvoyance, or …

Carl Jung on how he handles Dreams

Carl Jung on how he handles Dreams: . ..I handle the dream as if it were a text which I do not understand properly, say a Latin or Greek or Sanskrit text, where certain words are unknown to me or the text is fragmentary…

Carl Jung on the Symbolic content of the Mass - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the Symbolic content of the Mass - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “Although the Mass itself is a unique phenomenon in the history of comparative religion, its symbolic content would be profoundly alien to man were it not rooted in the human psyche. But if it is so rooted, then we may expect to find similar patterns of symbolism both in the earlier history of …

Carl Jung: You are the only Swiss who had reacted personally to my article and on your own initiative! - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: You are the only Swiss who had reacted personally to my article and on your own initiative! - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Meinrad Inglin Dear Herr Inglin, Bollingen, 2 August 1928 Please excuse my irresponsible silence. I had to wait for the holidays before I could write any letters at all. But I didn’t want to fail to thank you personally for your beautiful book,1 which I could read with passionate understanding. I underline could because …

Carl Jung: if you love flies and lice, which you also have to do to a certain extent, they will simply eat you up in the end. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: if you love flies and lice, which you also have to do to a certain extent, they will simply eat you up in the end. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: For instance, if you love flies and lice, which you also have to do to a certain extent, they will simply eat you up in the end. But you have other animals that you have to love, so you must give each part of yourself a decent existence. Then naturally the different kinds of animals …

Carl Jung on "Kore." Lexicon - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on "Kore." Lexicon - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung on “Kore.” Lexicon Kore: In Greek mythology, a term for the personification of feminine innocence (e.g., Persephone); psychologically, in man or wom-an, it refers to an archetypal image of potential renewal.The phenomenology of the Kore is essentially bipolar (as is that of any archetype), associated with the mother-maiden dyad. When observed in the …

Carl Jung: We may like to think that all psyches are single psyches,... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: We may like to think that all psyches are single psyches,... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: We may like to think that all psyches are single psyches, that no such thing as a collective psyche exists, in other words that the psyche is nothing more thanconsciousness, for consciousness is an individual phenomenon. But can we really be so very sure of this? Primitives, on the other hand, are not …

Carl Jung Quotations 33 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Quotations 33 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The practice of magic consists in making what is not understood understandable in an incomprehensible manner. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 314. Whoever is in love is a full and overflowing vessel, and awaits the giving. Whoever is in fore thinking is deep and hollow and awaits fulfillment. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page …

Carl Jung: „,we move in a world of images that point to something ineffable. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: „,we move in a world of images that point to something ineffable. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The fact that religious statements frequently conflict with the observed physical phenomena proves that in contrast to physical perception the spirit is autonomous, and that psychic experience is to a certain extent independent of physical data. The psyche is an autonomous factor, and religious statements are psychic confessions which in the last resort …

Carl Jung: She deserved being called a saint. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: She deserved being called a saint. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The anima as a friend or soror mystica [mystical sister] has always played a great role in history. In the cours d’amour [courts of love] of René d’Anjou she even takes precedence over the wife. The term maîtresse actually means mistress or master. In the Middle Ages, for example, the worship of the …

Gerhard Wehr on Carl Jung and "National Socialism" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Gerhard Wehr on Carl Jung and "National Socialism" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: National Socialism:                             When the International Psychoanalytic Association gathered for its twelfth congress in Wiesbaden in 1932, its president, Max Eitingon, had pointed out that “in Germany, under the influence of the ever-deepening financial and social crisis, interest in psychological problems …

Carl Jung: That is like the magic use of the sacred symbols. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: That is like the magic use of the sacred symbols. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: That is like the magic use of the sacred symbols. Of course there is the right use and the wrong use. You see, mandalas were first discovered by some old wise guy who lived in a cave or in the woods because he was bored with the crowd of fools that humanity consists of, and …

Carl Jung Quotations 31 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Quotations 31 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Is there any more beautiful love story than the love story of Mary? Wonderfully secret, divine, it is the only love affair of God that we know about. ~Carl Jung, Visions Seminar, Page 492 They [Children’s Dreams] must come from the psychology of the collective unconscious; one could say they were remnants of things they …

Carl Jung on the "continued and progressive Divine Incarnation." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the "continued and progressive Divine Incarnation." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “On the level of the Son there is no answer to the question of good and evil; there is only an incurable separation of the opposites. . . . It seems to me to be the Holy Spirit’s task and charge to reconcile and reunite the opposites in the human individual through a special development …

Carl Jung on America and Russia. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on America and Russia. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on America and Russia.] Evans: In your dealings with Professor Toynbee, have you gotten rather interested in his ideas of history? Jung: Ah, yes, particularly his ideas about the life cycles of civilizations, and the way that they are ruled by archetypal forms. Toynbee has seen what I mean by historical functions of …

All haste is of the devil - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

All haste is of the devil - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Reforms by advances, that is, by new methods or gadgets, are of course impressive at first, but in the long run they are dubious and in any case dearly paid for. They by no means increase the contentment or happiness of people on the whole. Mostly, they are deceptive sweetenings of existence, like speedier …

Dr. Jung was a Medical Doctor of Psychiatry - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Dr. Jung was a Medical Doctor of Psychiatry - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: While there are justifiable reasons to think of Dr. Jung metaphorically as being a: Magician, Shaman, Taoist, Gnostic, Mystic, Alchemist, Astrologer, etc. the fact is that Dr. Jung was first and foremost by profession a Psychiatrist which the first three volumes of his Collected Works bear eloquent testimony too. Volume 1: Psychiatric Studies Volume …

Carl Jung on "Intuition." Lexicon - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on "Intuition." Lexicon - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Intuition: The psychic function that perceives possibilities inherent in the present. (Compare sensation.) Intuition gives outlook and insight; it revels in the garden of magical possibilities as if they were real.[“The Psychology of the Transference,” CW 16, par. 492.] In Jung’s model of typology, intuition, like sensation, is an irrational function because its …

Carl Jung on “Irrational.” Lexicon. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on “Irrational.” Lexicon. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Irrational: Not grounded in reason. (Compare rational.)Jung pointed out that elementary existential facts fall into this category-for instance, that the earth has a moon, that chlorine is an element or that water freezes at a certain temperature and reaches its greatest density at four degrees centigrade-as does chance. They are irrational not because they are …

Carl Jung on "The Symbolic Life" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on "The Symbolic Life" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The Symbolic Life You see, man is in need of a symbolic life – badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational, or irrational things . . . but we have no symbolic life. Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life. . . . …

Carl Jung: So you are back safe and sound from the cholera country! - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: So you are back safe and sound from the cholera country! - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Professor Freud, 29 September 1910 So you are back safe and sound from the cholera country! Nevertheless I wish I could have been with you. I understand very well what you say about your travelling companion. I find that sort of thing exasperating, and still have an aftertaste of it from our American trip. …

Gerhard Wehr on Carl Jung's "Answer to Job" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Gerhard Wehr on Carl Jung's "Answer to Job" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Answer to Job   On the whole there are three publications which stand out from the work of C. G. Jung’s later years.   These had to do partly with the subject of self-development, represented in alchemical symbolism as the Mysterium Coniunctionis.   This two-volume work, supplemented by a third volume of texts, …

Jung: A Biography by Gerhard Wehr - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Jung: A Biography by Gerhard Wehr - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: If thou wouldst into the infinite stride, Explore the finite on every side. ~Goethe, cited in Jung by Gerhard Wehr, Page 4  Intuition provides us with perception and orientation in situations where sense, understanding, and feeling are completely useless to us …. This is an enormously important function if you live in more primitive circumstances …

Carl Jung on the Scarab - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the Scarab - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: What shall I do this whole long morning? I do not understand how Ammonius could have endured this life for even a year. I go back and forth on the dried-up river bed and finally sit down on a boulder. Before me there are a few yellow grasses. Over there a small dark beetle …

Carl Jung on "Shame" in The Red Book. [Anthology] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on "Shame" in The Red Book. [Anthology] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “Shame is a soul eating emotion.” — C.G. Jung Carl Jung on Shame [Excerpts from The Red Book.] Just as my thinking is the son of fore thinking, so is my pleasure the daughter of love, of the innocent and conceiving mother of God. Aside from Christ Mary gave birth to Salome. Therefore Christ in …

Carl Jung: But, even as a science of the mind, psychology occupies an exceptional position. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: But, even as a science of the mind, psychology occupies an exceptional position. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Psychology can also claim to be one of the humane sciences, or, as they are called in German, the Geisteswissenschaften, sciences of the mind. All these sciences of the mind move and have their being within the sphere of the psychic, if we use this term in its limited sense, as defined by natural science. …

It shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

It shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: And the LORD God said to the woman, What is this that you have done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. And the LORD God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, you are cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; on your …

It shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

It shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: And the LORD God said to the woman, What is this that you have done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. And the LORD God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, you are cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; on your …

Carl Jung: I have even consulted a good lawyer with a possible view to bringing a libel action. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: I have even consulted a good lawyer with a possible view to bringing a libel action. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Professor Freud, 23 January 1912 This time the reason for my failure to write is more complicated. We have been the victims of “blackmail”! by the newspapers and were publicly reviled although no names were named. I have even consulted a good lawyer with a possible view to bringing a libel action. But there …

Set up no stone to his memory. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Set up no stone to his memory. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Set up no stone to his memory. Just let the rose bloom each year for his sake. For it is Orpheus. His metamorphosisin this one and in this. We should not trouble about other names. Once and for all it’s Orpheus when there’s singing. He comes and goes. Is it not much already if at …

Carl Jung on "Introversion." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on "Introversion." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: In a large gathering he feels lonely and lost. The more crowded it is, the greater becomes his resistance. He is not in the least “with it” and has no love of enthusiastic get-togethers. He is not a good mixer. What he does, he does in his own way, barricading himself against influences …

My soul you-are you there? - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

My soul you-are you there? - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: My soul you-are you there? I have returned, I am here again. I have shaken the dust of all the lands from my feet, and I have come to you, I am with you. After long years of long wandering, I have come to you again. Should I tell you everything I have seen, experienced, …

My soul you-are you there? - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

My soul you-are you there? - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: My soul you-are you there? I have returned, I am here again. I have shaken the dust of all the lands from my feet, and I have come to you, I am with you. After long years of long wandering, I have come to you again. Should I tell you everything I have seen, experienced, …

Carl Jung on "Fish" - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on "Fish" - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Indeed I have often thought: if only I could have opened my own father’s eyes! But he died before I had caught the fish whose liver contains the wonderworking medicine. Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Pages 193-194. “If as seems probable, the aeon of the fishes is ruled by the archetypal motif of the ‘hostile …

Gerhard Wehr on Carl Jung and the Mysterium Coniunctionis - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Gerhard Wehr on Carl Jung and the Mysterium Coniunctionis - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Mysterium Coniunctionis Since C. G. Jung had come into contact with alchemy in the course of the twenties, he had been like a wanderer in the high mountains. After a diligent search for materials in preparation and after a laborious ascent, he had climbed-menaced by steep precipices-peak after peak. Roping down ahead of schedule was …

Carl Jung on apparently hopeless situations. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on apparently hopeless situations. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on apparently hopeless situations.] Often we are led to a wall, it is too high, we cannot get over it and we stand there and stare at it. Rationalism says, “There is no getting over it, just go away.” Yet natural development has led the patient up to an almost impossible situation to …

Carl Jung on “Guru” – Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on “Guru” – Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: From the earliest times, Hermes was the mystagogue and psycho pomp of the alchemists, their friend and counselor, who leads them to the goal of their work. He is “like a teacher mediating between the stone and the disciple.” To others the friend appears in the shape of Christ or Khidr or a visible or …

Carl Jung on "Missionaries" - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on "Missionaries" - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity. ~Carl Jung, CW 12, Page 12. The dignity of man— an essential notion still to be learned by all missionaries! ~Carl Jung, Hans Schmid Guisan Letters, Pages 100-114 The …

Carl Jung: The mental education necessary for Zen is lacking in the West. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: The mental education necessary for Zen is lacking in the West. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: When, therefore, after many years of the hardest practice and the most strenuous demolition of rational understanding, the Zen devotee receives an answer—the only true answer—from Nature herself, everything that is said of satori can be understood. As one can see for oneself, it is the naturalness of the answer that strikes one most about …

Carl Jung on “Introjection.” Lexicon - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on “Introjection.” Lexicon - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung on “Introjection.” Lexicon Introjection: A process of assimilation of object to subject, the opposite of projection. Introjection is a process of extraversion, since assimilation to the object requires empathy and an investment of the object with libido. A passive and an active introjection may be distinguished: transference phenomena in the treatment of the …

Carl Jung on "Kundalini" - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on "Kundalini" - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: While the video above represents Dr. Jung’s words, the written commentary presented with it does not necessarily represent assumptions, assertions and/or conclusions made by Dr. Jung. Below is some of what Dr. Jung had to say about “Kundalini.”: Small children are very old; later on we soon grow younger. In our middle age we are …

Carl Jung on the "Trinity" - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the "Trinity" - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The dream was of the general form of three elements being differentiated and a fourth less well developed; he elaborated at great length the problem of adding the fourth element to the existing trinity of faculties and the implications of this development. . ~Robert Johnson, C. G. Jung, Emma Jung and Toni Wolff – A …

The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man by C.G. Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man by C.G. Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man by C.G. Jung The spiritual problem of modern man is one of those questions which are so much a part of the age we live in that we cannot see them in the proper perspective. Modern man is an entirely new phenomenon; a modern problem is one …

Carl Jung on the "Assumption" - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the "Assumption" - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [About the Assumption of the Virgin Mary] Jung said that she has already entered into the nuptial chamber and that thus, naturally, after a time there will be a child. ~Carl Jung, Conversations with Jung, Page 15 Jung gave great importance to the papal bull of the Assumptio Maria. He held that it “points to …

Carl Jung: What a watery brew Ellis has concocted! - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: What a watery brew Ellis has concocted! - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Professor Freud, 23 June 1911 Naturally the time after the Congress would suit me just as well, I only thought that if you came before you could stay here a bit longer. I gather from your letter that you could come before the Congress, minus your wife, but we were so looking forward to …

Carl Jung: “I seek real knowledge [not Theosophy] and therefore avoid all unverifiable speculation.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: “I seek real knowledge [not Theosophy] and therefore avoid all unverifiable speculation.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Fernando Cassani Dear Herr Cassani, 13 July 1954 Best thanks for your friendly letter. I can only tell you that none of my books represents a “synthesis or foundation of my work,” at least not in my view. I am not a philosopher who might be able to achieve something as ambitious …

Carl Jung and a "Modern Myth" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung and a "Modern Myth" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: A Modern Myth   That a doctor and psychotherapist could not stop with merely pointing out the psychosomatic conditions of the individual is nowhere clearer in Jung’s output than in his late work.   Strictly speaking, analogous motifs emerged in visions and dreams around the middle of his life, when for example immediately before …

Gerhard Wehr on the Death of Emma Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Gerhard Wehr on the Death of Emma Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: One could tell by looking at her that she had overcome a serious illness not long ago. In the spring she had had to undergo surgery. And because her recovery dragged on for some time, Ruth Bailey had come from England to take over the management of the household. It had been agreed that …

Carl Jung: Some Reactions concerning Psychological Testing, Psychotherapy, Mental Telepathy, and other Personal Insights - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Some Reactions concerning Psychological Testing, Psychotherapy, Mental Telepathy, and other Personal Insights - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung: Some Reactions concerning Psychological Testing, Psychotherapy, Mental Telepathy, and other Personal Insights.] Evans: We American psychologists do a great deal of testing, utilizing “projective tests.” As we discussed earlier, you certainly played a major role in developing projective testing with your word association method. What led you to develop the Word Association Test? …

Carl Jung: When people say I am wise, or a sage, I cannot accept it. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: When people say I am wise, or a sage, I cannot accept it. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: When people say I am wise, or a sage, I cannot accept it. A man once dipped a hatful of water from a stream. What did that amount to? I am not that stream. I am at the stream, but I do nothing. Other people are at the same stream, but most of them find …

Carl Jung: My mythology swirls about inside me, and now and then various significant bits and pieces are thrown up. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: My mythology swirls about inside me, and now and then various significant bits and pieces are thrown up. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Professor Freud, 2 June 1910 I was amazed by your news. The adventure with “Schottlander” is marvellous; of course the slimy bastard was lying. I hope you roasted, flayed, and impaled the fellow with such genial ferocity that he got a lasting taste for once of the effectiveness of psychoanalysis. I subscribe to your …

Carl Jung: I can only hope that your embargo on discussion will be lifted during your stay here. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: I can only hope that your embargo on discussion will be lifted during your stay here. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Professor Freud, 29August 1911 I was overjoyed by your letter, being, as you know, very receptive to any recognition the father sees fit to bestow. It is more pleasing than the loud recognition conferred on this by the unremitting malevolence of our opponents. At the same time, your letter has got me on tenterhooks …

Carl Jung: I can only hope that your embargo on discussion will be lifted during your stay here. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: I can only hope that your embargo on discussion will be lifted during your stay here. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Professor Freud, 29August 1911 I was overjoyed by your letter, being, as you know, very receptive to any recognition the father sees fit to bestow. It is more pleasing than the loud recognition conferred on this by the unremitting malevolence of our opponents. At the same time, your letter has got me on tenterhooks …

Carl Jung on "Inflation." Lexicon - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on "Inflation." Lexicon - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Inflation: A state of mind characterized by an exaggerated sense of self-importance, often compensated by feelings of inferiority. (See also mana-personality and negative inflation. Inflation, whether positive or negative, is a symptom of psychological possession, indicating the need to assimilate unconscious complexes or disidentify from the self.) An inflated consciousness is always egocentric …

C. G. Jung in Dialogue and Dispute - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

C.  G. Jung in Dialogue and Dispute - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: C.  G. Jung in Dialogue and Dispute   Considering that C. G. Jung belonged to the introverted attitude type and that consequently his manifold and often extraordinary inner experiences were bound to have provided special meaning, his great readiness for conversation and meetings, and also for confrontation and debate, might be surprising.   Those who …

Carl Jung Letter to Sandor Ferenczi - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Letter to Sandor Ferenczi - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Colleague, [Sandor Ferenczi] It is very good that you convinced yourself to write the letter. You are completely right: one should not let a companionship like ours break apart. On the other hand, the complexes are active enough to keep such memories always fresh anyway. Transference could be most highly transformed into hatred and …

Carl Jung on Mrs. Eppers sculpture of him. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Mrs. Eppers sculpture of him. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Jung, however, did not like the sculpture. He wrote his opinion about the sculpture in a letter from the 25th of July 1956 as follows: Dear Mrs. Epper Please forgive me for the delay in my reply […] I have the impression that since I saw the bust at your place you had much work …

Carl Jung: Naturally I won't presume to stop you, since I don't know your reasons. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Naturally I won't presume to stop you, since I don't know your reasons. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Professor Freud, 12 July 1908 Again I have had to keep you waiting a long time for my answer. I am not a free agent and always have to adjust my decisions to the wishes of half a dozen other people. That takes time. In August’ my chief has four weeks leave, during which …

Carl Jung on “Inferior Function.” Lexicon. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on “Inferior Function.” Lexicon. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Inferior function: The least differentiated of the four psychological functions. The inferior function is practically identical with the dark side of the human personality.[“Concerning Rebirth,” CW 9i, par. 222.] In Jung’s model of typology, the inferior or fourth function is opposite to the superior or primary function. Whether it operates in an introverted or extraverted …

Carl Jung's views on Suicide - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung's views on Suicide - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung on Suicide: “It isn’t possible to kill part of your “self” unless you kill yourself first. If you ruin your conscious personality, the so-called ego-personality, you deprive the self of its real goal, namely to become real itself. The goal of life is the realization of the self. If you kill yourself you …

Some Carl Jung Quotations XXXIII - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Some Carl Jung Quotations XXXIII - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: But the way is my own self my own life founded upon myself The God wants my life. He wants to go with me, sit at the table with me, work with me. Above all he wants to be ever-present. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 292. With words you pull up the underworld. …

Paintings by Kristine Mann in A Study in the Process of Individuation - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Paintings by Kristine Mann in A Study in the Process of Individuation - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the "Academic Psychologist." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the "Academic Psychologist." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The academic psychologist is perfectly free to dismiss the phenomenon of emotion or the concept of the unconscious (or both) from his consideration. Yet they remain facts to which the medical psychologist at least has to pay due attention; for emotional conflicts and the intervention of the unconscious are the classical features of …

The Personal and Collective Pyche - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The Personal and Collective Pyche - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society. But …

Carl Jung on "Theosophy" - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on "Theosophy" - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn theosophy by heart, or mechanically repeat mystic text from the literature of the whole world – all because they cannot get on with …

Individuation is not “Mysticism,” “Shamanism,” “Alchemy,” or “Gnosticism”. Individuation is an expression of that biological process. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Individuation is not “Mysticism,” “Shamanism,” “Alchemy,” or “Gnosticism”. Individuation is an expression of that biological process. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: \ [The process of Individuation is not “Mysticism,” “Shamanism,” “Alchemy,” or “Gnosticism”. But, in reality, individuation is an expression of that biological process.] Psychology, like every empirical science, cannot get along without auxiliary concepts, hypotheses, and models. But the theologian as well as the philosopher is apt to make the mistake of taking them for …

Carl Jung and Erich Fromm - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung and Erich Fromm - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: With Erich Fromm, who had openly voiced his aversion to Jung since the mid-thirties, as with Paul J. Stern after him, Jung rose to the status of “prophet of the unconscious.” But as such-as Fromm attempted to portray him-he had not proclaimed prophetic wisdom but rather, and this with regard to the tension-filled thirties, produced …

Individuation is not “Mysticism,” “Shamanism,” “Alchemy,” or “Gnosticism”. Individuation is an expression of that biological process. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Individuation is not “Mysticism,” “Shamanism,” “Alchemy,” or “Gnosticism”. Individuation is an expression of that biological process. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: \ [The process of Individuation is not “Mysticism,” “Shamanism,” “Alchemy,” or “Gnosticism”. But, in reality, individuation is an expression of that biological process.] Psychology, like every empirical science, cannot get along without auxiliary concepts, hypotheses, and models. But the theologian as well as the philosopher is apt to make the mistake of taking them for …

Carl Jung on Theosophy and Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Theosophy and Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on Theosophy.] The destructive quality of this thinking as well as its occasional and limited usefulness, hardly need further elucidation. But there still exists another form of negative thinking, which at first glance perhaps would scarcely be recognized as such. I refer to the theosophy thinking which is to-day rapidly spreading in …

Dr. Jung's Death: Under the Sign of Wholeness: The End - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Dr. Jung's Death: Under the Sign of Wholeness: The End - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Under the Sign of Wholeness: The End C.G. Jung’s end lay immediately ahead-only a few weeks and days of further declining strength. For some months he knew and even occasionally said that he “had his marching orders,” as he put it. One more time he had himself taken out for a drive in his own …

Ruth Bailey on Carl Jung's Vision before his Death - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Ruth Bailey on Carl Jung's Vision before his Death - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: And Ruth Bailey added the personal note: “Throughout that whole day I must have known that he had now left me. Probably I knew it inside, but repressed it. And that was good; I would hardly have been able to do what needed to be done for him. All I could do was watch …

Carl Jung on “Individuation” Lexicon. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on “Individuation” Lexicon. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung on “Individuation” Lexicon. Individuation: A process of psychological differentiation, having for its goal the development of the individual personality.In general, it is the process by which individual beings are formed and differentiated; in particular, it is the development of the psychological individual as a being distinct from the general, collective psychology.[Ibid., par. 757.] …

Carl Jung: Excuse this brevity, but I am in a state of war. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Excuse this brevity, but I am in a state of war. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Professor Freud, 19 February 1912 Heartiest thanks for your two excellent articles. “The Dynamics of Transference”! is of extraordinary value for the analyst. I have read it with pleasure and profit. So far as the concept of introversion” is concerned, I consider it to be a universal phenomenon, though it has a special significance …

Carl Jung: One is struck by the enormous diversity of human individuals... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: One is struck by the enormous diversity of human individuals... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: I have given a detailed description of a purely psychological typology in my book Psychological Types. My investigation was based on twenty years of work as a doctor, which brought me into contact with people of all classes from all the great nations. When one begins as a young doctor, one’s head is …

Carl Jung: I must recall at this point a serious misunderstanding to which my readers often succumb, and doctors most commonly. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: I must recall at this point a serious misunderstanding to which my readers often succumb, and doctors most commonly. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: I must recall at this point a serious misunderstanding to which my readers often succumb, and doctors most commonly. They invariably assume, for reasons unknown, that I never write about anything except my method of treatment. This is far from being the case. I write about psychology. I must therefore expressly emphasize that my method …

Carl Jung: Most of the others stuck by me splendidly and did their best to unhorse Bleuler. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Most of the others stuck by me splendidly and did their best to unhorse Bleuler. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Professor Freud, 30 April 1910 At last I can report to you after the uproar last week. In a private talk beforehand, Bleuler, very huffy and irritable, gave me a flat refusal and expressly declared that he would not join the Society-he would dissociate himself from it altogether. Reasons: its aim was too biased, …

Carl Jung: Childhood and Student Years (1875-1900) - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Childhood and Student Years (1875-1900) - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Childhood and Student Years {1875-1900): Carl Gustav Jung was born July 26, 1875, in Kesswil, Switzerland, on Lake Constance. His paternal grandfather, alter whom he was named, had moved from Germany in 1822, when Alexander von Humboldt obtained an appointment for him as professor of surgery at the University of Basel. His father, Johann …

Carl Jung on Diagnostic and Therapeutic Practices - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Diagnostic and Therapeutic Practices - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Jung on Diagnostic and Therapeutic Practices: Dr. Evans: We American psychologists do a great deal of testing, utilizing “projective tests.” As we discussed earlier, you certainly played a major role in developing projective testing with your word association method. What led you to develop the Word Association Test? Dr. Jung: You mean the practical use …