Carl Jung and My illness proved to be a most valuable experience... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung and My illness proved to be a most valuable experience... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: On February 1, 1945, Carl Jung wrote of his experience to Kristine Mann: My illness proved to be a most valuable experience, which gave me the inestimable opportunity of a glimpse behind the veil.The only difficulty is to get rid of the body, to get quite naked and void of the world and the ego-will. …

Dr. Jung on misconceptions about "Types." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Dr. Jung on misconceptions about "Types." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The classification of individuals [By Type] means nothing at all ~Carl Jung, Jung-Evans Conversations, Page 23. In my book about types I have given a number of examples illustrating my modus operandi. Classification did not interest me very much. It is a side-issue with only indirect importance to the therapist.” ~Carl Jung, Letters …

On November 2, 1945, Jung wrote to Cary Baynes: - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

On November 2, 1945, Jung wrote to Cary Baynes: - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: On November 2, 1945, Jung wrote to Cary Baynes:“We have landed indeed, after the nightmare of the war, in the precincts of hell. The war was a long drawn out suspense, in which everything seemed to be still existent yet provisional. One lived from day to day, never certain of to-morrow. An incredible atmosphere of …

Carl Jung on the deaths of Emma Jung and Toni Wolff - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the deaths of Emma Jung and Toni Wolff - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on the deaths of Emma Jung and Toni Wolff] Jung reflected further on this issue after the death of Toni Wolff in 1953 and Emma Jung in 1955. In the published version of Memories, Jung discussed the issue of reincarnation, and noted that: “Until a few years ago I could not discover anything …

Some Carl Jung Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Some Carl Jung Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: It is most important that you should be born; you ought to come into this world—otherwise you cannot realize the self, and the purpose of this world has been missed. ~Carl Jung, Kundalini Seminar, Page 28 It is utterly important that one should be in this world, that one really fulfills one’s entelechia, the germ …

Carl Jung on the possibility of consciousness without a brain. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the possibility of consciousness without a brain. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on the possibility of consciousness without a brain.] For example in 1930, he wrote to Alice Raphael: … Bergson is quite right when he thinks of the possibility of relatively loose connection between the brain and consciousness, because despite of our ordinary experience the connection might be less tight than we suppose. There …

Carl Jung on the "Intuitive Extrovert" and "Intuitive Introvert." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the "Intuitive Extrovert" and "Intuitive Introvert." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dr. Evans: More specifically, what would be an example of the difference between an intuitive extrovert and an intuitive introvert? Dr. Jung: Well, you have chosen a somewhat difficult case, because one of the most difficult types is the intuitive introvert. The intuitive extrovert you find in all kinds of bankers, gamblers, etc., which is …

Carl Jung on the nature of Sacrifice - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the nature of Sacrifice - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on the nature of Sacrifice] When, therefore, I give away something that is “mine,” what I am giving is essentially a symbol, a thing of many meanings; but, owing to my unconsciousness of its symbolic character, it adheres to my ego, because it is part of my personality. Hence there is, explicitly or …

Carl Jung on Shamanism, The Mass, Osirification and Mystery Religions. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Shamanism, The Mass, Osirification and Mystery Religions. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on Shamanism, The Mass, Osirification and Mystery Religions.] The numinous experience of the individuation process is, on the archaic level, the prerogative of shamans and medicine men; later, of the physician, prophet, and priest; and finally, at the civilized stage, of philosophy and religion. The shaman’s experience of sickness, torture, death, and regeneration …

Carl Jung: It is the kingdom of things that are not. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: It is the kingdom of things that are not. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Mrs. Crowley: The two symbols together would perhaps suggest the Yin and the Yang. Dr. Jung: That is true. The bowl would be the female and the staff the male form, which means a union of opposites; the male and female are together in this poimen. It also means neither male nor female. That is …

Carl Jung on: The Unconscious: Archetypes - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on: The Unconscious: Archetypes - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung on: The Unconscious: Archetypes Dr. Evans: You mentioned earlier that Freud’s Oedipal situation was an example of an archetype. At this time would you please elaborate onthe concept, archetype? Dr. Jung: Well, you know what a behavior pattern is, the way in which a weaver bird builds its nest. That is an inherited …

Carl Jung on "The Nature of Objects" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on "The Nature of Objects" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The Nature of the Value of Objects. 1. evident or real;2. unconscious or magical value. What is this magical value? The primitives say it Is mans, value, prestige soul-power. They only realize the dynamic side, not the ideal side. All energy must have form, e.g. heat or electricity, etc.So too mental energy must have form, …

Carl Jung on the Anima and Animus - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the Anima and Animus - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dr. Evans: To be more specific, Dr. Jung, you have used the concepts, anima and animus, which you are now identifying in terms of sex,male or female. I wonder if you could elaborate perhaps even more specifically on these terms? Take the term “anima” first. Is this again partof the inherited nature of the individual? …

Letter from Carl Jung to Alice Lewisohn Crowley suggesting Suicide - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Letter from Carl Jung to Alice Lewisohn Crowley suggesting Suicide - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Letter from Carl Jung to Alice Lewisohn Crowley suggesting Suicide: My Dear Mrs. Crowley,                                                            20 December 1941 I begin to feel my age and whenever …

Carl Jung’s Letter to Paul A. Hilty - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung’s Letter to Paul A. Hilty - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung’s Letter to Paul A. Hilty answering a variety of questions: Dear Mr. Hilty, Your name, “Hilty” is well known even famous in Switzerland. I thank you for your frank questions, which I will try to answer-helias-with much delay! 1. I am of the Swiss Reformed branch. My father was a parson. On my …

Some Carl Jung Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Some Carl Jung Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: We must read the Bible or we shall not understand psychology. Our psychology, whole lives, our language and imagery are built upon the Bible. ~Carl Jung, Visions Seminar, Page 156. It is a general truth that the earth is depreciated and misunderstood…For quite long enough we have been taught that this life is not the …

Carl Jung on “The Individual’s Understanding of Himself” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on “The Individual’s Understanding of Himself” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on “The Individual’s Understanding of Himself”] It is astounding that man, the instigator, inventor and vehicle of all these developments, the originator of all judgments and decisions and the planner of the future, must make himself such a quantité négligeable. The contradiction, the paradoxical evaluation of humanity by man himself, is in truth …

Carl Jung: Relating to Freud, Adler, and Rank - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Relating to Freud, Adler, and Rank - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung: Relating to Freud, Adler, and Rank Dr. Evans: Dr. Jung, many of us who have read a great deal of your work are aware of the fact that in your early work you were in associationwith Dr. Sigmund Freud, and I know it would be of great interest to many of us to …

Carl Jung on the Great Mother - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the Great Mother - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung’s Letter to “N” on the Human Psyche and the Great Mother: Dear N., I was very pleased to hear that you now have house and land of your own. This is important for the chthonic powers. I hope you will find time to commit your plant counterparts to the earth and tend their …

Carl Jung and The connection with the brain does not in itself prove that the psyche is an epiphenomenon... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung and The connection with the brain does not in itself prove that the psyche is an epiphenomenon... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The connection with the brain does not in itself prove that the psyche is an epiphenomenon, a secondary function causally dependent on biochemical processes. Nevertheless, we know only too well how much the psychic function can be disturbed by verifiable processes in the brain, and this fact is so impressive that the subsidiary nature of …

All the tendrils that would not bear grapes..... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

All the tendrils that would not bear grapes..... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung’s Letter to “N” interpreting her fantasy story: Dear N: As promised, I will try to sketch my “reaction”: I was drawn into the ream which oneself is, and in which there is no I and no You anymore. It be He has to acquire it for himself because he begins with the great …

Some Carl Jung Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Some Carl Jung Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The principal pair of opposites is the conscious world and the unconscious world, and when the two come together, it is as if man and woman were coming together, the union of the male and the female, of the light and the darkness. Then a birth will take place. ~Carl Jung, Visions Seminar, Page 574 …

Is it not better to send the patient back to life to get his relationships there, rather than to continue analysis - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Is it not better to send the patient back to life to get his relationships there, rather than to continue analysis - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Question. Is it not better to send the patient back to life to got his relationships there, rather than to continue analysis thus arousing the great dependence of the transference? Answer. The patient should go back to life as soon as possible; he should form relationships outside of analysis as soon as possible. A …

Carl Jung’s Letter regarding Tuberculosis [TB] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung’s Letter regarding Tuberculosis [TB] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Mr. Campbell: Thank you so much for your kind letter and the programme of your conference. I fully realize that Catholic analysts are faced with very particular problems which, on the one hand, are an aggravation of the work which is difficult in itself already, yet on the other hand, am asset, since you …

Some Carl Jung Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Some Carl Jung Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The unconscious can make a fool of you in no time. ~Carl Jung, Visions Seminar, Page 747 It is surely not the divine will in man that he should be something which he is not, for when one looks into nature, one sees that it is most definitely the divine will that everything should be …

Carl Jung on How do the things excluded by Christianity live in the unconscious? - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on How do the things excluded by Christianity live in the unconscious? - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: How do the things excluded by Christianity live in the unconscious? There is only an indirect method of approach to this problem, for something that is unconscious cannot be directly observed. 1. The exclusion of Nature. (a) Nature when it is in the unconscious shows itself in the form of certain peculiar relationships of a …

Carl Jung on “Wisdom” Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on “Wisdom” Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on “Wisdom” Anthology] Tears, sorrow, and disappointment are bitter, but wisdom is the comforter in all psychic suffering. Indeed, bitterness and wisdom form a pair of alternatives: where there is bitterness wisdom is lacking, and where wisdom is there can be no bitterness. ~Carl Jung; CW 20; Mysterium Coniunctionis; Page 246; …

Carl Jung on Materials Constellated in the Unconscious Through Ecclesiastical Christianity. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Materials Constellated in the Unconscious Through Ecclesiastical Christianity. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Materials Constellated in the Unconscious Through Ecclesiastical Christianity. It is necessary to differentiate carefully between Ecclesiastical Christianity and the Real Christianity of Christ’s teaching.Ecclesiastical Christianity does not work; do not confuse this with the real religious attitude which works naturally, but which is not necessarily Christian. Those things which are repressed by the specific attitude …

Carl Jung's Letters on the Death of Albert Oeri - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung's Letters on the Death of Albert Oeri - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Dr. Oeri, [Albert Oeri’s wife] The great tiredness I saw and felt in my friend on my visit to Basel has now run speedily to its end. The dead are surely not to be pitied—they have so infinitely much more before them than we do—but rather the living who are left behind, who must …

Carl Jung: The staff represents guidance - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: The staff represents guidance - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The staff represents guidance; it will become a guide as an inner law when someone came into the inner ring of fire and remains suspended in the soul fire. In humility we stay on hanging in the fire, until we are burned up. That’s how the transformation of the ego into spiritual, immortal …

When the Romans became Christian... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

When the Romans became Christian... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: When the Romans became Christian, the old pagan world went down into the unconscious, into oblivion. There, there were already the old nature spirits. Then the old gods go down into the depths of the mountains. Wotan, for example, who moves in storms at night. The recognized gods of the day go down into the …

Carl Jung on how you can become your own Sun-Rise. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on how you can become your own Sun-Rise. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on how you can become your own Sun-Rise.] The collective unconscious must be thought of as a world of images equivalent to the outer world which, is the world of real objects. This formulation must be limited, however, by the recognition that both worlds are psychological functions only, that is, they are subjective. …

Carl Jung: Adler's psychology does much greater justice to this situation than Freud's. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Adler's psychology does much greater justice to this situation than Freud's. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: From Dr. Loy                                                              23 February 1913 From your letter of 18 February I would like first to single out the end, where you so aptly assign the element of suggestion its proper place in psychoanalysis: “The patient is not an empty sack into which we can stuff whatever we like; he brings his own …

Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Sigmund Freud   I embarked on the adventure of my intellectual development by becoming a psychiatrist In all innocence I began observing mental patients, clinically, from the outside, and thereby came upon psychic processes of a striking nature.   I noted and classified these things without the slightest understanding of their contents, which were considered …

Carl Jung on Mithraic and Christian Totemism - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Mithraic and Christian Totemism - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Of the archaic symbols which may arise to take the place of the missing impersonal attitude, Totemic ideas are perhaps the most frequent and the most important. 1. Mithraic totemism, which produces a re-identification with the Bull of Mithras; this will manifest itself in bull-like shouting. 2. Christian totemism. This gives identification with the Little …

Carl Jung on Life after Death - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Life after Death - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Anonymous Dear Frau N., 30 May 1960 My old age and the need for rest make me fight shy of too many visitors, so I have to confine myself as far as possible to written answers. I can answer your question about life after death just as well by letter as by word of mouth …

Carl Jung Letter on Astrology and Astrologers - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Letter on Astrology and Astrologers - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: On Astrology and Astrologers Letter from Carl Jung to Robert L. Kroon: Astrology is one of the intuitive methods like the I Ching, geomantics and other divinatory procedures. It is based upn the synchronicity principle, i.e., meaningful coincidence I have explored experimentally three intuitive methods: the method of the I Ching, geomantics and astrology. Astrology …

Some Carl Jung Quotations posted June 24, 2017 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Some Carl Jung Quotations posted June 24, 2017 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: That is not to be forgotten; fantasy is not nothing. It is, of course, not a tangible object; but it is a fact nevertheless. ~Carl Jung, Evans Conversations, Page 22. Fantasy is, you see, a form of energy, despite the fact that we can’t measure it. It is a manifestation of something, and that is …

Carl Jung on the “Technique of Analysis” "Treatment" "Transference" and "Projection." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the “Technique of Analysis” "Treatment" "Transference" and "Projection." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on the “Technique of Analysis” “Treatment” “Transference” and “projection.”] 1. starting from the neurosis, discussing the symptoms, their origin,manifestation and symbolism.2. starting from the phantasy material, or from the dream content.3. free association, which gives the material in a fundamental instinctual route or trend: (a) sexual; (b) power – according to what may …

Carl Jung on Questions to be asked during the Era of Aquarius. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Questions to be asked during the Era of Aquarius. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The most serious question to ask, it seems to me, is what will Christianity have to say in the future? What is the meaning of an attachment to the cross, what are the four functions? What does it mean to say “He gave up the ghost” or, “My God , why hast thou forsaken me?” …

Carl Jung: "Buddha quietly turned the disciple's mind to the path of redemption..." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: "Buddha quietly turned the disciple's mind to the path of redemption..." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Isobel Moore Dear Miss Moore, 2 May 1938 Buddha was once asked by one of his disciples why all his disciples, though redeemed, didn’t possess the wonderful gifts of the fourth degree of contemplation, namely: sitting on the air, walking through walls, remembering their past lives, seeing things in the future, and touching …

Carl Jung: My wife has told me of all the garbage that has piled up round the magazine project. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: My wife has told me of all the garbage that has piled up round the magazine project. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Frau Jacobi, 21 April 1933 Many thanks for your detailed letter. From what you say of him, Dr. N. seems to be the right man. If he can win over Frau S., in whose sound judgment I have the fullest confidence, he must be quite something. An ordinary idiot of a neurologist couldn’t do …

Carl Jung's Confrontation with the Unconscious - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung's Confrontation with the Unconscious - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Confrontation with the Unconscious   After the parting of the ways with Freud, a period of inner uncertainty began for me.                                                                                 It would be no exaggeration to call it a state of disorientation.   I felt totally suspended in mid-air, for I had not yet found my own footing.   Above all, I felt …

The Hero, the Leader, The Savior... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The Hero, the Leader, The Savior... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: But, in the end, the hero, the leader, the savior, is one who discovers a new way to greater certainty. Everything could be left undisturbed did not the new way demand to be discovered, and did it not visit humanity with all the plagues of Egypt until it finally is discovered. The undiscovered vein within …

Carl Jung: We are men and not gods. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: We are men and not gods. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: I am a psychologist and empiricist, and for me the meaning of life does not lie in annulling it for the sake of an alleged “possibility of transcendental existence” which nobody knows how to envisage. We are men and not gods. The meaning of human development is to be found in the fulfilment of this …

Carl Jung on "Mathematics" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on "Mathematics" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on Mathematics] I should like to study the theory of numbers.What is a number, an entity, a sequence, an archetype? We think we can perceive and grasp a number logically and suddenly it behaves quite differently from the way we expected. We are not thinking of prime numbers when we string beads together. …

Some Carl Jung Quotations [Posted June 23, 2017] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Some Carl Jung Quotations [Posted June 23, 2017] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: It is characteristic of the transcendent that it can be pictured and described by numbers; the passage of time, quantity, and identity, are spiritual substances. ~Carl Jung, Jung-Ostrowski, Page 60. The character of the image is not determined by numbers. Pure spiritual substance is eternal. An image as such needs neither time nor space. ~Carl …

Carl Jung: The Self means the inmost uniqueness and oneness of this particular being, yet that is symbolized by a city. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: The Self means the inmost uniqueness and oneness of this particular being, yet that is symbolized by a city. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Mrs. Crowley: But that is exactly what I meant. I have been mystified all the time you were reading about it. Dr. Jung: Then women, thou art forgiven! It is the light of consciousness, but it is a symbol of the consciousness which is not an ego consciousness. That collective aspect of the city comes …

Some Carl Jung Quotations XLI [Red Book; Liber Novus] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Some Carl Jung Quotations XLI [Red Book; Liber Novus] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The ancients brought over some of the beauty of God into this world, and this world became so beautiful that it appeared to the spirit of the time to be fulfillment, and better than the bosom of the Godhead. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 238. This meaning of events is the supreme meaning, that is …

Carl Jung's Letter on Astrology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung's Letter on Astrology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung’s letter to M. Barbault on Astrology: Dear M. Barbault: First I must apologize for being so late in answering your letter of March 19th. I was away on holiday part of the time or else ill. Besides, unfortunately, my advanced age no longer permits me to fulfill all my obligations as I …

Carl Jung hearing of the death of Toni Wolff. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung hearing of the death of Toni Wolff. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Outwardly he kept extremely calm, so that both his wife and his secretary told me they thought he had over-come the shock after a few days, but from my notes for April 1953, I see that he said himself that his pulse was still between eighty and 120; moreover this trouble continued for some time. …

In 1958, Jung initiated efforts to have Toni Wolff's writings published. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

In 1958, Jung initiated efforts to have Toni Wolff's writings published. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Dr. Brody. . . . I feel the need to recommend the collected papers of Toni Wolff to your attention. . . They are distinguished not only by their intellectual content but by the fact that the author had personally experienced the development of analytical psychology from the fateful year of 1912 …

Carl Jung on Toni Wolff - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Toni Wolff - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Jung went on as if talking to himself, “Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long ago, on an IslandSomewhere in the ocean five thousand years ago.. . . Such is Love, the Mystic Flower of the Soul. …

Carl Jung to his daughter Marianne after the death of Emma Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung to his daughter Marianne after the death of Emma Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Marianne, Warmest thanks for your lovely letter which was a great joy. I am glad you weren’t bored with me. It was a joy to be together with you for a while. . . . Mama’s death has left a gap for me that cannot be filled. So it is good if you have …

Some Carl Jung Quotations posted 22June2017 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Some Carl Jung Quotations posted 22June2017 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: But if we think that God were responsible for the original sin, there would be no more mystery about sin. ~Carl Jung, Jung-Ostrowski, Page 48. Adam and Eve would indeed have been inadequate people if they had not noticed which tree the right apples grew on. ~Carl Jung, Jung-Ostrowski, Page 48. If we study the …

Carl Jung on "Good and Evil." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on "Good and Evil." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on Good and Evil] We can only speak of the relativity of good and evil in individual cases. The categories of good and evil cannot be suspended; they are continually alive and cannot be attached to material things. Evil is that which obstructs meaningful vitality. It may show itself differently in each case. …

Dr. Jung's Vision that is not in "Memories." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Dr. Jung's Vision that is not in "Memories." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: There was also a vision or experience – not mentioned in Memories – which he described to Emma Jung and myself very vividly, when I visited him in the hospital during his early convalescence. . he told us then that as he was recovering from the very worst of his illness, he felt that …

Carl Jung on "Man and Woman." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on "Man and Woman." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on “Man and Woman.”] A man often makes a decidedly infantile resistance to a woman and therefore at the same time to his own unconscious side. Women and the unconscious are, to him, closely connected and he believes he must save himself from both of them, sometimes in panic. A man …

Carl Jung Letter about The Ego and Self. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Letter about The Ego and Self. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung’s Letter to Arvind U. Vasavada: Thank you for your kind letter and the beautiful “salutation to the perfect Master.” In the guru, I perceive you greet the infinitesimal God whose light becomes visible wherever a man’s consciousness has made even the smallest step forward and beyond one’s own horizon. The light of the …

Carl Jung: I did not say in the broadcast, “There is a God.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: I did not say in the broadcast, “There is a God.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “Called or uncalled, God is present!” It is a Delphic oracle. The translation is by Erasmus. You ask whether the oracle is my motto. In a way, you see, it contains the entire reality of the psyche. “Oh God!” is what we say, irrespective of whether we say it by way of a curse or …

Carl Jung on the "Self." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the "Self." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The Archetype of the Self The ego is the workshop where the self is made. The self has inconceivable powers and possibilities but it needs a world in which these powers and possibilities can become conscious. Objects and a world to contain them are necessary for consciousness, a place where differentiation occurs and can be …

[Carl Jung on the Anima and Animus] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

[Carl Jung on the Anima and Animus] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on the Anima and Animus] The power operating through the animus emanates specifically from the self, which is hidden behind it, and from its mana. According to my view the animus can be either positive or negative. He is like a dragon guarding the bridge trying to prevent us from reaching the other …

Some Carl Jung Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Some Carl Jung Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Objects and a world to contain them are necessary for consciousness, a place where differentiation occurs and can be experienced. ~Carl Jung, Jung-Ostrowski, Page 35. The self is always present but does not know it … yet everything must be brought into consciousness. ~Carl Jung, Jung-Ostrowski, Page 35. A man is both, ego and self. …

[Carl Jung on Religion] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

[Carl Jung on Religion] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on Religion] The inner man has access to the sense organs of God. God has a longing for man and it seems there is provision for God to be created in man’s consciousness. Consciousness is the cradle of the birth of God in man. A religious life presupposes a conscious connection of the …

Carl Jung on “Archetypes." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on “Archetypes." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Archetypes: When all the archetypal images are properly placed in a hierarchy, when that which must be below is below, and.that which must be above is above, our final condition can recapture our original blissful state. Archetypes are images in the soul that represent the course of one’s life. One part of the archetypal content …

Carl Jung: He who wants to remain true to love must also overcome sin. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: He who wants to remain true to love must also overcome sin. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: I gathered from Philemon’s words that I must remain true to love to cancel out the commingling that arises through unlived love. I understood that the commingling is a bondage that takes the place of voluntary devotion. Scattering or dismembering arises, as Philemon had taught me, from voluntary devotion. It cancels out the commingling. Through …

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

Carl Jung on "Abortion." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: If the question of an abortion arises the whole situation with all its implications must be taken into account. If the parents are married and healthy the child must be accepted, and the sacrifice of living a more modest life should be met if it is financially necessary. If the parents are not married the …

Carl Jung's "Thanks Offering" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung's "Thanks Offering" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: In remembrance of his seventy-fifth birthday Jung chiseled a twenty-inch square stone with three alchemical inscriptions ”as a thanks offering.” The stone stands outside the tower at Bollingen “and is like an explanation of it.” ~Claire Dunne, Wounded Healer of the Soul, Page 140. Here stands the mean, uncomely stone,‘Tis very cheap in price!The more …

Carl Jung on "The Bible and the Church." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on "The Bible and the Church." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on “The Bible and the Church.”] The Church and the Bible If the Nazis had invaded Switzerland during the Second World War, I would have become a Catholic out of protest because the Catholic Church would then have represented the only spiritual power. That is, of course, if I had not been shot …

Carl Jung: Pfister will bring his next installment;" Sadger speaks of mucus eroticism," with ill-concealed moral indignation. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Pfister will bring his next installment;" Sadger speaks of mucus eroticism," with ill-concealed moral indignation. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Professor Freud, 6 November 1911 The first days after my return were crowded with trivia. Now at last I can breathe again. I have discussed the Zentralblatt situation with Riklin and issued the necessary orders. (I have the feeling that nothing moves unless one brandishes a whip.) Most people are only too glad to …

Olga Frobe-Kapteyn and Eranos - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Olga Frobe-Kapteyn and Eranos - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn was born in 1881 in London of Dutch parents. Her mother Truus Muysken was engaged in feminist movements and social renewal, while her father Albertus Kapteyn (or Kapteijn) was an engineer with passion for photography. She studied history of art in Zürich and in 1909 married Iwan Fröbe, a musician and conductor who, …

Carl Jung on how to use Active Imagination. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on how to use Active Imagination. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The initial question to be directed. . . would be: “Who or what has come alive? . . . Who or what has entered my psychic life and created disturbances and wants to be heard?” To this you should add: “let it speak!” Then switch off your noisy consciousness and listen quietly inwards and look …

Carl Jung on Foul Language as a therapeutic tool. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Foul Language as a therapeutic tool. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: An American woman underwent a Freudian analysis without success. She had used foul language to her analyst but he had failed to react and he disregarded her behaviour. When she repeated some examples to me I told her in no uncertain terms that if she were ever to speak to me again like that, I …

Carl Jung and Ghosts - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung and Ghosts - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Explorations: Jung in England: Ghost and Personality Types By Vivianne Crowley In 1920, Carl Jung, the father of Analytic Psychology, was invited to Britain to give seminars. In his leisure time he visited Tintagel Castle, the supposed birthplace of King Arthur, and mystical Glastonbury, where St. Joseph of Arimathea is reputed to have brought the …

Carl Jung's Letter on UFO's - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung's Letter on UFO's - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: In 1957, with Flying Saucers to appear the following year, New Republic editor Gilbert A. Harrison wanted to get this Jungian perspective on UFOs in his magazine. Carl Jung’s response to Harrison’s query, the text of which follows: the problem of the Ufos is, as you rightly say, a very fascinating one, but it is …

Carl Jung: I find that it gives us a key to the backdoors of the Renaissance. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: I find that it gives us a key to the backdoors of the Renaissance. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Herr Kaegi, 7 November 1932 Thank you very much for kindly sending me your offprint. I am glad you have drawn my attention to Walser. As you are obviously well acquainted with Walser’s writings, I would like to ask you whether Walser has also taken an interest in the Ipnerotomachia of Francesco Colonna. I …

Carl Jung: " Into this territory a man must venture if he wishes to meet woman half way." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: " Into this territory a man must venture if he wishes to meet woman half way." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: A human relationship leads into the world of the psyche, into that intermediate realm between sense and spirit, which contains something of both and yet forfeits nothing of its own unique character. Into this territory a man must venture if he wishes to meet woman half way. Circumstances have forced her to acquire a number …

The Truth in the Analytical Process by Solange Schneider [Newly Released] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The Truth in the Analytical Process by Solange Schneider [Newly Released] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: T   The Truth in the Analytical Process by Solange Schneider   Analyzing the role of truth, secrets and lies, as well as ethics in human relationships, cannot be postponed. The way we deal with truth in our private and public lifes affects our mental health, just as unjust governments affect our personal lives. The …

Carl Jung: I find that it gives us a key to the backdoors of the Renaissance. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: I find that it gives us a key to the backdoors of the Renaissance. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Herr Kaegi, 7 November 1932 Thank you very much for kindly sending me your offprint. I am glad you have drawn my attention to Walser. As you are obviously well acquainted with Walser’s writings, I would like to ask you whether Walser has also taken an interest in the Ipnerotomachia of Francesco Colonna. I …

Carl Jung: " Into this territory a man must venture if he wishes to meet woman half way." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: " Into this territory a man must venture if he wishes to meet woman half way." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: A human relationship leads into the world of the psyche, into that intermediate realm between sense and spirit, which contains something of both and yet forfeits nothing of its own unique character. Into this territory a man must venture if he wishes to meet woman half way. Circumstances have forced her to acquire a number …

Carl Jung on the "Archetype of the Shadow." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the "Archetype of the Shadow." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The Archetype of the Shadow The Bible says, “Whosoever shall say “Racha” to his brother is guilty of hellfire. “If we substitute “shadow” for “brother” and implicate the dark brother within, we open out this biblical word into new perspectives. It also says, “Reconcile yourself with him as long as he is on the road.” …

Carl Jung Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: If the poles of the psyche are torn apart the analyst should take great care that the patient does not identify himself with one side of his conflict. ~Carl Jung, Jung-Ostrowski, Page 16. When geometric symbols appear in dreams or drawings they are the original images of the primeval condition. Geometric designs may also appear …

Carl Jung on how the Unconscious expresses itself through Depression. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on how the Unconscious expresses itself through Depression. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The unconscious can also express itself through a depression. People so spoilt by success that they are no longer accustomed to struggle for it, must sometimes suffer disaster in order to wake up: otherwise life is too easy for them. They are too comfortable and they have to pay for it somehow. Many …

Carl Jung Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Attainment of consciousness is culture in the broadest sense and self-knowledge is therefore the heart essence of the process. ~Carl Jung, Jung-Ostrowski, Page 11. If we say “God” we give expression to an image or a verbal concept, which has undergone many changes in the course of time. ~Carl Jung, Jung-Ostrowski, Page 11. Life exists …

Carl Jung on be grounded in the rational. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on be grounded in the rational. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: It is under all conditions a most advisable thing to keep to the conscious and rational side, i.e., to maintain that side. One never should lose sight of it. It is the safeguard without which you would lose yourself on unknown seas. You would invite illness, indeed, if you should give up your conscious and …

Carl Jung and "The Work" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung and "The Work" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The Work   As my life entered its second half, I was already embarked on the confrontation with the contents of the unconscious.   My work on this was an extremely long drawn-out affair, and it was only after some twenty years of it that I reached some degree of understanding of my fantasies.   …

Carl Jung on Psychotherapy - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Psychotherapy - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Psychotherapy As therapists we are subject to the unavoidable destinies of our patients. We can smooth their sharp edges, lead them, and help them to experience their true fate. But many a tragic destiny cannot be averted. Yes, we sometimes see a patient rushing towards disaster; we should help him then to immerse himself so …

Carl Jung on Psychotherapy - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Psychotherapy - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Psychotherapy As therapists we are subject to the unavoidable destinies of our patients. We can smooth their sharp edges, lead them, and help them to experience their true fate. But many a tragic destiny cannot be averted. Yes, we sometimes see a patient rushing towards disaster; we should help him then to immerse himself so …

Some Carl Jung Quotations XXXVII - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Some Carl Jung Quotations XXXVII - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize itspurposes through him. ~Carl Jung, CW 15, Para 157 That is his office, and it is sometimes so heavy a burden that he is fated to sacrificehappiness and everything that makes life worth …

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

Carl Jung on "Archetypes." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Archetypes When all the archetypal images are properly placed in a hierarchy, when that which must be below is below, and that which must be above is above, our final conditioncan recapture our original blissful state. Archetypes are images in the soul that represent the course of one’s life. One part of the archetypal content …

Carl Jung on the "Spirit of the Depths" [Red Book] - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the "Spirit of the Depths" [Red Book] - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Everything that becomes too old becomes evil, the same is true of your highest. Learn from the suffering of the crucified God that one can also betray and crucify a God, namely the God of the old year. If a God ceases being the way the zenith, he must fall secretly. The God becomes sick …

Carl Jung on Consciousness and Becoming Conscious - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Consciousness and Becoming Conscious - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Consciousness and Becoming Conscious Consciousness is the divine light; it is the possibility of seeing oneself, and this means to me that it is the very basis of life. Consciousness is the transformation and the transformer of the primordial instinctual images. The act of becoming conscious happens to man in darkness. If he can grasp …

Carl Jung: What one could "enjoy" of Goethe is, for me, too patriarchal, too much de l'epoque. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: What one could "enjoy" of Goethe is, for me, too patriarchal, too much de l'epoque. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Max Rychner Dear Dr. Rychner 28 February 1932 Here are my answers to your questions about Goethe: 1. My mother drew my attention to Faust when I was about 15 years old. 2. Goethe was important to me because of Faust. 3. As a “poet,” perhaps Holderlin. 4. In my circle Faust is an …

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

Carl Jung on "Goethe" - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The problem of my destiny goes back a hundred and fifty years. Indeed it appeared as early as the twelfth century, as I have now discovered. Formerly I believed it only went back to Goethe’s Faust. (Jung now told the dream of his ancestors in which the last was only able to move his little …

Carl Jung: ...even the enlightened person remains what he is... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: ...even the enlightened person remains what he is... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The Christian Church has hitherto. . . [recognized] Christ as the one and only God-man. But the indwelling of the Holy Ghost, the third Divine Person, in man, brings about a Christification of many, and the question then arises whether these many are all complete God-men. . . . It is well to remind ourselves …

Carl Jung on "Answer to Job." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on "Answer to Job." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: God wanted to become man and still wants to … ~Carl Jung, CW 11, Answer to Job, Page 455. One should make clear to one self, what it means, when God becomes man. ~ Carl Jung, CW 11, Answer to Job, Page 401. If we say “God”? we give an expression to an image or …

Carl Jung: The Mother is, I maintain, only one aspect of the unconscious - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: The Mother is, I maintain, only one aspect of the unconscious - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Dr. Vetter, 8 April 1932 The chief difficulty seems to be the concept of transcendence. For me this concept is only epistemological, but for you, if I understand you correctly, it is something almost theological. Cf. the Christian concept of the Trinity, resulting from the efforts of the old theologians to push God out …

Professor Jung: Yes, I always take the invention of writing as the criterion for when responsible consciousness came into existence. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Professor Jung: Yes, I always take the invention of writing as the criterion for when responsible consciousness came into existence. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Professor Jung: Yes, I always take the invention of writing as the criterion for when responsible consciousness came into existence. That’s a particular period in the development of consciousness itself, mind you. We must completely abandon the idea of finding out when that began. That goes back to God knows when. But we may say …

Carl Jung on: Fantasies, Art, Anima - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on: Fantasies, Art, Anima - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: When I was writing down these fantasies, I once asked myself, ‘What am I really doing? Certainly this has nothing to do with science. But then what is it?” Whereupon a voice within me said, “It is art.” I was astonished. It had never entered my head that what I was writing had any connection …

Carl Jung; Meister Eckhart's theology knows a "Godhead" of which no qualities, except unity and being... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung; Meister Eckhart's theology knows a "Godhead" of which no qualities, except unity and being... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Meister Eckhart’s theology knows a “Godhead” of which no qualities, except unity and being, can be predicated; it “is becoming,” it is not yet Lord of itself, and it represents an absolute coincidence of opposites: “But its simple nature is of forms formless; of becoming becomingless; of beings beingless; of things thingless,” etc. Union of …

Dr. Jung discusses Psychology and Physics with famous Physicists - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Dr. Jung discusses Psychology and Physics with famous Physicists - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Professor Pauli, Best thanks for kindly sending me Jordan’s paper. I think this paper should be published, as it is concerned with theActual changeover of the physicist’s mode of observation tothe psychological field. This paper was inevitable. Having come to the conclusion that the observed is also a disturbance by the observer, the consistent …

Oh, incidentally as a child Dr. Jung failed his Drawing Class. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Oh, incidentally as a child Dr. Jung failed his Drawing Class. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on if what he was doing was “Art.” Oh, incidentally as a child Dr. Jung failed his “Drawing Class.”] While Jung was writing in Black Book 2, I said to myself “What is this I am doing, it certainly is not science, what is it?” Then a voice said to me, “That …

Dr. Jung and the impressions ordinary people made upon him - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Dr. Jung and the impressions ordinary people made upon him - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: I always remember a letter I received one morning, from a woman who wanted to see me just once in her life. The letter made a very strong impression on me, I am not quite sure why. I invited her to come and she came. She was very poor – poor intellectually too. I don’t …

Carl Jung: No Christian is meant to sleep in a safe pew... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: No Christian is meant to sleep in a safe pew... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: No Christian is meant to sleep in a safe pew. . . . I have discovered in my private life that a true Christian is not bedded upon roses and he is not meant for peace and tranquility of mind but for war. And again I am realizing profoundly that not everybody’s nature …

Carl Jung: ...the next savior might be a coloured man... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: ...the next savior might be a coloured man... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Robert Edmond Jones My dear Jonah, 6 January 1931 Thank you very much for sending me a copy of the wonderful book. Having read OZ’ Man Adam and his Chillun I was quite able to appreciate the particular beauty of the play and of your share in it. I wish we could see such …

Carl Jung's "Bollingen Tower" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung's "Bollingen Tower" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The Tower Gradually, through my scientific work, I was able toput my fantasies and the contents of the unconscious on a solid footing.Words and paper, however, did not seem real enough to me; something more was needed. I had to achieve a kind of representation in stone of my innermost thoughts and of the knowledge …

Carl Jung: “We imitate Christ and hope he will deliver us from our own fate.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: “We imitate Christ and hope he will deliver us from our own fate.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Christ. . . took himself with exemplary seriousness and lived his life to the bitter end, regardless of human convention and in opposition to his own lawful tradition, as the worst heretic in the eyes of the Jews and a madman in the eyes of his family. But we? We imitate Christ and …

Jung's Premonitions of World War I - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Jung's Premonitions of World War I - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Jung’s Premonitions of World War I Dreamed 1913-1914 by Carl Jung This account is from Jung’s autobiography Memories, Dreams, Reflections. In October [1913], while I was alone on a journey, I was suddenly seized by an overpowering vision: I saw a monstrous flood covering all the northern and low-lying lands between the North Sea and …

Jung's Premonitions of World War I - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Jung's Premonitions of World War I - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Jung’s Premonitions of World War I Dreamed 1913-1914 by Carl Jung This account is from Jung’s autobiography Memories, Dreams, Reflections. In October [1913], while I was alone on a journey, I was suddenly seized by an overpowering vision: I saw a monstrous flood covering all the northern and low-lying lands between the North Sea and …

Letter sent by Carl Jung to Frances G. Wickes August 27, 1926 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Letter sent by Carl Jung to Frances G. Wickes August 27, 1926 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Letter sent by Carl Jung to Frances G. Wickes August 27, 1926 My dear Mrs. Wickes, It is too terrible. Was there anything wrong with the thymus gland? Thre might be a reason for such a sudden death in youth. Anyhow he did not know that he died. He vanished at the moment of joy. …

The last time Mary Crile visited Dr. Jung. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The last time Mary Crile visited Dr. Jung. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Artist Mary Crile visited Jung in that period. The last time I saw Jung face to face. . . I found him much aged but there was the same kindly twinkle behind those penetrating eyes of his. When he said, “Pull up your chair, for I am getting deaf and old and stupid,” I could …

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

Carl Jung on "Pipes" - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Until now I have smoked 1 pipe with water condensation on beginning work in the morning, a miniature cigar after lunch, equal to 1-2 cigarettes, another pipe at 4 o’clock, after supper another little cigar, and generally another pipe about 9:30. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Page 103. For a time I faithfully observed the …

Carl Jung: If only one did not have a scientific conscience and that hankering after the truth. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: If only one did not have a scientific conscience and that hankering after the truth. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: From Dr. Loy                                                   12 January 1913   What you said at our last interview was extraordinarily stimulating.   I was expecting you to throw light on the interpretation of my own and my patients’ dreams from the standpoint of Freud’s dream interpretation.   Instead, you put before me an entirely new conception: the dream …

Carl Jung: I had no idea of the mishap that has befallen your son. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: I had no idea of the mishap that has befallen your son. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Professor Freud, 31 January 1911 Many thanks for all the news in you~ last letter. – As I am laid low with influenza, this will be only a soulless typed letter.” Stekel’s aphorisms are atrocious. A blessing they were suppressed – The real reason for my writing to you in haste and so disjointedly, …

Carl Jung on “Meaning” in The Red Book - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on “Meaning” in The Red Book - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: If you marry the ordered to the chaos, you produce the divine child, the supreme meaning beyond meaning and meaninglessness. Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 235 One needs death to be able to harvest the fruit. Without death, life would be meaningless, since the long-lasting rises again and denies its own meaning. To be, and …

Do you think that somewhere we are not Nature? - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Do you think that somewhere we are not Nature? - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “Do you think that somewhere we are not Nature, that we are different from Nature? No, we are in Nature and think exactly like Nature.” – C.G. Jung The Earth Has a Soul. Restoring Nature’s Divinity: “Matter in the wrong place is dirt. People get dirty through too much civilization. Whenever we touch nature, we …

Carl Jung on “Objective” and “Non-Objective” Time. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on “Objective” and “Non-Objective” Time. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Stephen Abrams Dear Mr. Abrams, 21 October 1957 Your letter leads into the centre of a very complicated problem. Being a scientist I am rather shy of philosophical operations, particularly of conclusions reaching beyond the limits of experience. F.i. I would not go as far as to say that the categories of …

Jewels from the Red Book - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Jewels from the Red Book - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Jewels from the Red Book — Quotes “To the superficial observer, it will appear like madness.” ~Carl Jung Quotes While most will not purchase this pricey book, and even less will take the time to plow through the confounding personal revelations of Jung’s psychic journey, it is my aim to glean some of the jewels …

Carl Jung’s Self-Confidence shaken. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung’s Self-Confidence shaken. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To you, dear friend. . . for this dawning decade 1960-70, in whose lap the black and white cards of our uncertain fate await us. The past decade dealt me heavy blows – the death of dear friends and the even more painful loss of my wife, the end of my scientific activity …

Carl Jung: Don't think you are forgotten. You would be far from the truth. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Don't think you are forgotten. You would be far from the truth. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: My dear Christiana Morgan, 28 December 1927 Don’t think you are forgotten. You would be far from the truth. First of all you ought to realize that I lived in the happy illusion that I had written to you-presumably because I so often thought of you and I had the intention to ·write to yon …

The consensus of opinion interpreted the Redeemer equally as a fish and a serpent... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The consensus of opinion interpreted the Redeemer equally as a fish and a serpent... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The consensus of opinion interpreted the Redeemer equally as a fish and a serpent; he is a fish because he rose from the unknown depths, and a serpent because he came mysteriously out of the darkness. Fishes and snakes are favourite symbols for describing psychic happenings or experiences that suddenly dart out of the unconscious …

Carl Jung on "Man's Real Task." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on "Man's Real Task." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: In each aeon there are at least a few individuals who understand what man’s real task consists of, and keep its traditionfor future generations and a time when insight has reached a deeper and more general level. First the way of a few will be changed and in a few generations there will be more. …

The advocates of Christianity squander their energies in the mere preservation of what has come down to them... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The advocates of Christianity squander their energies in the mere preservation of what has come down to them... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: It is the same problem as in Job. As the highest value and supreme dominant in the psychic hierarchy, the God-image is immediately related to, or identical with, the self, and everything that happens to the God-image has an effect on the latter.Any uncertainty about the God-image causes a profound uneasiness in the self, for …

Ronald Hayman’s lack of scholarship and erroneous assumptions and assertions uncovered - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Ronald Hayman’s lack of scholarship and erroneous assumptions and assertions uncovered - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: In 1999, Ronald Hayman, another professional biographer, published his biography of Jung, A Life of Jung. Hayman was the first biographer who was aware of the status of Memories, Dreams, Reflections, and drew on the protocols of Aniela Jaffé’s interviewswith Jung. Furthermore, he was the first biographer to draw on the Countway interviews, supplemented with …

Some Carl Jung Quotations XXXV - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Some Carl Jung Quotations XXXV - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: You still have to learn this, to succumb to no temptation, but to do every~ thing of your own will; then you will be free and beyond Christianity. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 235. The Christian-my Christian-knows no curse formulas; indeed he does not even sanction the cursing of the innocent fig-tree by the rabbi …

Ronald Hayman’s lack of scholarship and erroneous assumptions and assertions uncovered - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Ronald Hayman’s lack of scholarship and erroneous assumptions and assertions uncovered - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: In 1999, Ronald Hayman, another professional biographer, published his biography of Jung, A Life of Jung. Hayman was the first biographer who was aware of the status of Memories, Dreams, Reflections, and drew on the protocols of Aniela Jaffé’s interviewswith Jung. Furthermore, he was the first biographer to draw on the Countway interviews, supplemented with …

Carl Jung in "North Africa" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung in "North Africa" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: At the beginning of 1920 a friend told me that he had a business trip to make to Tunis, and would I like to accompany him? I said yes immediately. We set out in March, going first to Algiers. Following the coast, we reached Tunis and from there Sousse, where I left my friend to …

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

Carl Jung on "Prophecy" - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung on “Prophecy.” – Anthology   Being a scientist I prefer not to be a prophet if I can help it. I am in no position to ascertain facts of the future. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Page 513. In my estimation, second sight is not an illness, but a gift; you might as …

Carl Jung an Alchemical Stages - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung an Alchemical Stages - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The third and highest degree of conjunction was the union of the whole man with the unus mundus . . . the potential world of the first day of creation, when nothing was yet “in actu,” i.e. divided into two and many but was stillone. . . the eternal Ground of all empirical being. . …

Carl Jung: Thus "omnipotence" will later be included in the symptomatology of obsessional neurosis. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Thus "omnipotence" will later be included in the symptomatology of obsessional neurosis. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Professor Freud, Kusnacht Zurich, 14 December 1909 Your letter came yesterday evening and I am replying at once. Your impressions of Binswanger’s paper tally with my own, though I haven’t dared to say so out loud. I too was annoyed with B. for pushing the business end so blatantly to the fore; his obeisances …

Carl Jung: I spend much of my time with young Honegger-he is so intelligent and subtle-minded. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: I spend much of my time with young Honegger-he is so intelligent and subtle-minded. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Kushnacht Zurich, 15 November 1909 Pater, peccavil-it is indeed a scandal to have kept you waiting 25 days for an answer. From the last paragraph of your letter it is clear why the intervals need to be shorter: you seem to be very isolated in-Vienna. Eitingon’s company cannot be counted among the highest joys. His …

Carl Jung: What is ordinarily called "religion" is a substitute to such an amazing degree .... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: What is ordinarily called "religion" is a substitute to such an amazing degree .... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The Catholic Church, for instance, administers the sacraments for the purpose of bestowing their spiritual blessings upon the believer; but since this act would amount to enforcing the presence of divine grace by an indubitably magical procedure, it is logically argued that nobody can compel divine grace to be present in the sacramental act, but …

Carl Jung and Bollingen - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung and Bollingen - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: I observe myself in the stillness of Bollingen, with the experience of almost eight decades now, and I have to admit thatI have found no plain answer to myself. I am in doubt about myself as much as ever, the more so the more I try to say something definite. It is even as though …

Aniela Jaffe on Carl Jung's youth - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Aniela Jaffe on Carl Jung's youth - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: He [Jung] began telling me about himself and the sensitiveness that had tormented him from early youth, how it had encumbered him in hisrelationships and made him feel unsure of himself, how ashamed it had made him feel, but how, because of this same impressionability,he had perceived beauties and experienced things other people scarcely dreamed …

Carl Jung: “Not being a prophet, it is impossible for me to predict where the world is going to.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: “Not being a prophet, it is impossible for me to predict where the world is going to.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Albert Oppenheimer Dear Herr Oppenheimer 10 October 1933 Not being a prophet, it is impossible for me to predict where the world is going to. But I know from my own experience of very many individuals of our time that a very definite instinctive tendency is atwork to bring them back to consciousness of …

Carl Jung: When Elijah told me he was always with Salome, I thought it was almost blasphemous for him to say this. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: When Elijah told me he was always with Salome, I thought it was almost blasphemous for him to say this. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: In those days I saw a compensatory principle that seemed to show a balance between the conscious and unconscious. But I saw later that the unconscious was balanced in itself. It is the yea and the nay. The unconscious is not at all exactly the opposite of the conscious. It may be irrationally different. You …

Carl Jung on “Tao.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on “Tao.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The truth is one and the same everywhere and I must say that Taoism is one of the most perfect formulations of it I ever became acquainted with. ~Carl Jung, Letters Volume 1, Pages 559-560. The unity of these two, life and consciousness, is the Tao. ~Carl Jung; The Secret of the Golden Flower. To …

Carl Jung visits the Pueblo Indians - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung visits the Pueblo Indians - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The Pueblo Indians We always require an outside point to stand on, in order to apply the lever of criticism. This is especially so in psychology, where by the nature of the material we are much more subjectively involved than in any other science. How, for example, can we become conscious of national peculiarities if … https://www.patreon.com/posts/carl-jung-visits-19428578 https://gofund.me/2c1513fc #CarlJung, #Alchemy, #Anima, #Animus, #Archetype, #Feminine, #Woman, #CollectiveUnconscious, #Dreams, #Ego, #Introvert, #Jungian, #Mythology, #Persona, #Shadow, #God, #Religion, #Christ, #Buddhism, #Freud, #Psyche, #Types, #Spirituality, #Synchronicity

Carl Jung on “Synchronicity.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on “Synchronicity.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung on “Synchronicity.” “Certain phenomena of synchronicity seem to be bound up with the archetypes.” Synchronistic events nearly always occurduring, or because of heightened emotion. It’s as if the threshold of consciousness is lowered, which then allows the unconscious and its contents to show themselves in conscious life. These spheres of heightened emotion occur …

Prajapati desired: I will propagate myself, I will be many... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Prajapati desired: I will propagate myself, I will be many... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Through introversion, as numerous historical witnesses testify, one is fertilized, inspired, regenerated, and reborn. In Indian philosophy this idea of creative spiritual activity has even acquired a cosmogonic significance. According to the Rig-Veda (X, 121), the unknown creator of all things is Prajapati, “Lord of Creation.” His cosmogonic activity is described as follows in the …

Carl Jung: CW 14 "Mysterium Coniunctionis" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: CW 14 "Mysterium Coniunctionis" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: And yet the attainment of consciousness was the most precious fruit of the tree of knowledge, the magical weapon which gave m.an victory over the earth, and which we hope will give him a still greater victory over himself. ~Carl Jung, CW 14, Para 289 The unconscious has a thousand ways of snuffing out a …

Descent into Hell ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Descent into Hell ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: In the following night, the air was filled with many voices. A loud voice called, “I am falling.” Others cried out confused and excited during this: “Where to? What do you want?” Should I entrust myself to this confusion? I shuddered. It is a dreadful deep. Do you want me to leave myself to chance, to the madness of …

Sonu Shamdasani - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Sonu Shamdasani - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Sonu Shamdasni [Age 51] Sonu Shamdasani (born 1962) is a London-based author, editor, and professor at the UCL Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London. His works are on the history of psychiatry and psychology from the mid-nineteenth century to current times. In 2003, he founded Philemon Foundation, along with Stephen Martin, where …

Carl Jung: Particularly here in Switzerland we have the feeling that we can only live vertically. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Particularly here in Switzerland we have the feeling that we can only live vertically. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Heinrich Zimmer My dear Zimmer, 26 August 1941 Heartiest thanks for your two manuscripts, “The Involuntary Creation” and “The Celtic Romance of the Soul.” I shall soon enjoy reading them, which I can do now as I am on holiday. We often think of you and did so quite particularly at the last Eranos …

Carl Jung on Individuation - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Individuation - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Gustav Jung on Individuation: In my naturally limited experience there are, among people of maturer age, very many for whom the development of individuality is an indispensable requirement. Hence I am privately of the opinion that it is just the mature person who, in our times, has the greatest need of some further education …

Sonu Shamdasani - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Sonu Shamdasani - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Sonu Shamdasni [Age 51] Sonu Shamdasani (born 1962) is a London-based author, editor, and professor at the UCL Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London. His works are on the history of psychiatry and psychology from the mid-nineteenth century to current times. In 2003, he founded Philemon Foundation, along with Stephen Martin, where …

“Thank God, I’m Jung, and not a Jungian.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

“Thank God, I’m Jung, and not a Jungian.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [“Thank God, I’m Jung, and not a Jungian.” is a popular quotation of Dr. Jung’s but is often not used within the context in which it was stated as provided below.] There was indeed plenty of theory with which to diagnose and label the patients, but terms and theory never appealed to Jung except as …

Carl Jung on the Death of Emma and Bollingen house. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the Death of Emma and Bollingen house. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: After my wife’s death. . . I felt an inner obligation to become what I myself am. To put it in the language of the Bollingen house, I suddenly realized that the small central sectionwhich crouched so low, so hidden was myself! I could no longer hide myself behind the “maternal” and the “spiritual” towers. …

Carl Jung on the Death of Emma and Bollingen house. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the Death of Emma and Bollingen house. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: After my wife’s death. . . I felt an inner obligation to become what I myself am. To put it in the language of the Bollingen house, I suddenly realized that the small central sectionwhich crouched so low, so hidden was myself! I could no longer hide myself behind the “maternal” and the “spiritual” towers. …

[T]here is in the unconscious an archetype of wholeness that manifests itself spontaneously in dreams... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

[T]here is in the unconscious an archetype of wholeness that manifests itself spontaneously in dreams... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [T]here is in the unconscious an archetype of wholeness that manifests itself spontaneously in dreams, etc., and a tendency, independent of the conscious will, to relate other archetypes to this center. . . . Consequently, it does not seem improbable that the archetype of wholeness occupies, as such, a central position, which approximates it to …

Carl Jung: How can I fulfil the meaning of my life if the goal I set myself is the "disappearance of individual consciousness"? - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: How can I fulfil the meaning of my life if the goal I set myself is the "disappearance of individual consciousness"? - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Meggie Reichstein Dear Dr. Reichstein, 2 August 1957 Thank you very much for the great trouble you have taken in working through Sumantri Hardjo Rakosa’s book on “The Conception of Man in Indonesian Religion as a Basis for Psychotherapy,” and for furnishing such a clear report of its contents. Your resume of his remarks …

Carl Jung: She was due for a psychotic interval, not being born yet out of the mists of the Bardo life. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: She was due for a psychotic interval, not being born yet out of the mists of the Bardo life. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Eleanor Bertine Dear Dr. Bertine, 9 January 1939 I’m sorry to hear that you are chiefly concerned with borderline cases. It is a thorny task, on the other hand a very interesting one. I remember Mrs. X. very well. She was due for a psychotic interval, not being born yet out of the …

Carl Jung in Kenya and Uganda - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung in Kenya and Uganda - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Kenya and Uganda   (Tout est bien sortant des mains de fAuteur des chases Rousseau.)   When I visited the Wembley Exhibition in London (1925), I was deeply impressed by the excellent survey of the tribes under British rule, and resolved to take a trip to tropical Africa in the near future.   In the …

Carl Jung’s Dream that inspired “Answer to Job.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung’s Dream that inspired “Answer to Job.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The problem of evil had occupied Jung since his childhood, raising, as it does, fundamental questions about the ideas ofGod we live with in the form of images, concepts, and metaphors and their consequent effect on the meaning and conductof human existence. Patients and public had put these questions to him for years. In Aion …

Carl Jung Visits India - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Visits India - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: My journey to India, in 1938, was not taken on my own initiative.   It arose out of an invitation from the British Government of India to take part in the celebrations connected with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the University of Calcutta.   By that time I had read a great deal about Indian …

Sheila Moon on Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Sheila Moon on Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: In each of my hours with Dr. Jung I was aware of his sense of urgency about man’s religious task, of his intense concern that each of us must be related to ourselves and to God not only inwardly but in the world, if we and the world are not to be destroyed. “We fear …

Carl Jung on “Life.” - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on “Life.” - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Analysis, thus understood, is by no means a therapeutic method of which the medical profession holds a monopoly. It is an art, a technique, a science of psychological life, which the patient, when cured, should continue to practise for his own good and for the good of those amongst whom he lives. If he understands …

Dr. Jung nearly arrested by the Nazis - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Dr. Jung nearly arrested by the Nazis - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: It is not unlike the present state of things in Germany. I don’t want to talk politics, but I can tell you one very interesting psychological item: when I was in Germany I was consulted by some leading Nazis who wanted to keep me there, one of them actually said he should arrest …

The goal of psychological, as of biological, development is self-realization or individuation. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The goal of psychological, as of biological, development is self-realization or individuation. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The goal of psychological, as of biological, development is self-realization or individuation. But since [we] know [our self] only as an ego, and the self, as a totality, is indescribable and indistinguishable from a God-image, self-realization . . . amounts to God’s incarnation. . . . And because individuation is an heroic and often tragic …

There is in the unconscious an archetype of wholeness - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

There is in the unconscious an archetype of wholeness - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [T]here is in the unconscious an archetype of wholeness that manifests itself spontaneously in dreams, etc., and a tendency, independent of the conscious will, to relate other archetypes to this center. . . . Consequently, it does not seem improbable that the archetype of wholeness occupies, as such, a central position, which approximates …

Jane Wheelwright: Jung seemed to say that the new era can come through only by means of the feminine principle - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Jane Wheelwright: Jung seemed to say that the new era can come through only by means of the feminine principle - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Analyst and author Jane Wheelwright was a patient of Jung’s in the 1930s] People who never knew Jung wonder what he was like. And it is not surprising, considering the enormous impact his writings now have and how much they help towards a logical solution to our collective dilemma. His conclusions accepting and …

Carl Jung: That is the reason why he [Man] does not know himself; he is cosmically isolated. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: That is the reason why he [Man] does not know himself; he is cosmically isolated. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Miguel Serrano Dear Sir, 14 September 1960 Your letter of May 7th, 1 960, is so vast that I don’t know where to begin answering it. The way towards a solution of our contemporary problems I seem to propose is in reality the process I have been forced into as a modern individual confronted …

Carl Jung Depth Psychology - Life, Work and Legacy of Carl Jung

Carl Jung Depth Psychology - Life, Work and Legacy of Carl Jung: Life, Work and Legacy of Carl Jung

Carl Jung and "Physics." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung and "Physics." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: When he was just starting to work on the theory of relativity, Einstein came often to my house and I bombed with questions about the new theory. I’m not good at math and imagine the problem that the poor guy had to explain relativity. He didn’t know how to explain it. Faced with the difficulty …

Carl Jung on “Human Body” – Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on “Human Body” – Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Whatever you experience outside of the body, in a dream for instance, is not experienced unless you take it into the body, because the body means the here and now. ~Carl Jung, Visions Seminar, Page 1316. If you just have a dream and let it pass by you, nothing has happened at all, even if …

Carl Jung visits Ravenna and Rome - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung visits Ravenna and Rome - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Ravenna and Rome   Even on the occasion of my first visit to Ravenna in 1913, the tomb of Galla Placidia seemed to me significant and unusually fascinating.   The second time, twenty years later, I had the same feeling.   Once more I fell into a strange mood in the tomb of Galla Placidia; …

Carl Jung and “I cannot and shall not exclude non-Aryan speakers.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung and “I cannot and shall not exclude non-Aryan speakers.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung and “I cannot and shall not exclude non-Aryan speakers.”] To Eric Benjamin Strauss Dear Dr. Strauss, 26 March 1938 Thank you for your letter. I shall answer it more fully when I have Professor Goring’s reply. As you know pars. 2, 3, and 4 of our regulations allows the participation of everyone, quite …

Dr. Jung a victim of sexual assault as a boy. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Dr. Jung a victim of sexual assault as a boy. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Actually-and I confess this to you with a struggle-I have a boundless admiration for you both as a man and a researcher, and I bear you no conscious grudge. So the self-preservation complex does not come from there; it is rather that my veneration for you has some- thing of the character of …

Carl Jung: Liber Novus Image 153 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Liber Novus Image 153 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Are you laughing, Oh Philemon? Alas, I understand you: humanity has completely faded for you, but its shadow has arisen for you. How much greater and happier the shadow of humanity is than it is itself! The blue midday shadows of the dead! Alas, there is your humanity, Oh Philemon, you are a teacher and …

Carl Jung on the “Soul.” - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the “Soul.” - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Above all, we know desperately little about the possibilities of continued existence of the individual soul after death, so little that we cannot even conceive how anyone could prove anything at all in this respect. Moreover, we know only too well, on epistemological grounds, that such a proof would be just as impossible …

Carl Jung and “Projection.” Lexicon - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung and “Projection.” Lexicon - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Projection: An automatic process whereby contents of one’s own unconscious are perceived to be in others. (See also archaic, identification and participation mystique.) Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naïvely suppose that people are as we imagine them to be. . . . All the contents …

Carl Jung's Vision in 1944 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung's Vision in 1944 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: At the beginning of 1944 I broke my foot, and this misadventure was followed by a heart attack.   In a state of unconsciousness I experienced deliriums and visions which must have begun when I hung on the edge of death and was being given oxygen and camphor injections.   The images were so …

Philemon speaking to Carl Jung of Phanes... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Philemon speaking to Carl Jung of Phanes... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Phanes is the God who rises agleam from the waters.Phanes is the smile of dawn.Phanes is the resplendent dayHe is the immortal present.He is the gushing streams.He is the soughing wind.He is hunger and satiation.He is love and lust.He is mourning and consolation.He is promise and fulfillment,He is the light that illuminates every darkness.He is …

The Sacred Prostitute - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The Sacred Prostitute - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The Sacred Prostitute in the Ancient World By Catherine Auman It may be hard for the western mind to reconcile that the words sacred and prostitute may be linked, for the Judeo-Christian tradition holds sexuality to be profane, the antithesis of spirit. Yet in the times of the Great Goddess worship, sexuality was revered and …

Some Carl Jung Quotations XXXIV - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Some Carl Jung Quotations XXXIV - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “True” alchemy was never a business or a career, but a genuine opus to be achieved byquiet, self-sacrificing work. ~Carl Jung, CW 12, Para 422. It seems as if all the personal entanglements and dramatic changes of fortune that make upthe intensity of life were nothing but hesitations, timid shrinking, almost like petty complicationsand meticulous …

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

Carl Jung on "God" - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on “God” in The Red Book aka Liber Novus – Anthology] The ancients called the saving word the Logos, an expression of divine reason. So much unreason / was in man that he needed reason to be saved. If one waits long enough, one sees how the Gods all change into serpents and …

Carl Jung and the "Rhizome" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung and the "Rhizome" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Back to the Rhizome 1960–1961   Although he was eighty-five in July, 1960, fate that year demanded yet another great effort from Jung.   I do not remember hearing him speak of his original refusal to become involved in a popular exposition of his psychology.   The first time I remember hearing him mention the …

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

Carl Jung on “Primitive.” Lexicon - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Primitive: Descriptive of the original, or undifferentiated, human psyche. (See also archaic.) I use the term “primitive” in the sense of “primordial,” and . . . do not imply any kind of value judgment. Also, when I speak of a “vestige” of a primitive state, I do not necessarily mean that this state will sooner …

Carl Jung: ...we have lost connection to the idea of God within; we denigrate this idea by calling it ‘mystical. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: ...we have lost connection to the idea of God within; we denigrate this idea by calling it ‘mystical. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung points out that in modern times we have lost connection to the idea of God within; we denigrate this idea by calling it ‘mystical.’ Jung adds: “And even if they do cherish a certain belief in God, they would be deterred from the idea of a God within by their religious education, which …

Carl Jung: I have often met with the objection that the thoughts which the voice represents are no more than the thoughts of the individual himself. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: I have often met with the objection that the thoughts which the voice represents are no more than the thoughts of the individual himself. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “I have often met with the objection that the thoughts which the voice represents are no more than the thoughts of the individual himself. That may be; but I would call a thought my own only when I have thought it, just as I would call money my own only when I have earned or …

Carl Jung on "Bleuler" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on "Bleuler" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Professor Freud, 29 November 1910 I had a faint suspicion that your present attitude to the divergent tendencies of Stekel and Adler is not exactly a simple one. There is in any case a noticeable analogy between Adler and Bleuler: the same mania to make the terminology as different as possible and to squeeze …

This is the Image of the Divine Child - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

This is the Image of the Divine Child - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To deliver the men of his time from the stretched hanging, Christ effectively took this torment upon himself and taught them: “Be crafty like serpents and guileless like doves.” For craftiness counsels against chaos, and guilelessness veils its terrible aspect. Thus men could take the safe middle path, hedged both upward and downward. But the …

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Carl Jung: Man cannot stand a meaningless life. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Man cannot stand a meaningless life. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: increasingly necessary for people to behave communally and collectively, now do you think it’s possible that the highest development of man may be to submerge his own individuality in a kind of collective consciousness? JUNG: That’s hardly possible. I think there will be a reaction — a reaction will set in against this …

Carl Jung: This time the opposition got into hot water. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: This time the opposition got into hot water. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Professor Freud, Burgholzli-Ziirich, 30 November 1907 Last Tuesday I lectured at the Medical Society for nearly an hour and a half on your researches, to great applause. More than 100 doctors were present. No opposition except from two well-known neurologists, who rode the moral hobby-horse. Yesterday’s meeting of our Freudian Society went off very …