Carl Jung's Letter to Pastor Max Frischkencht - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung's Letter to Pastor Max Frischkencht - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Pastor Max Frischknecht Dear Pastor Frischknecht, 7 April 1945 Thank you for kindly sending me your book. Permit me a few objective remarks: you stumble over the term “self.” This nomenclature is no invention of mine. It existed with the same meaning for the same thing thousands of years before I did. Following Bacon’s …

Carl Jung Letter to W.Y. Evans-Wentz - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Letter to W.Y. Evans-Wentz - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To W. Y. Evans-Wentz My dear Mr. Evans-Wentz, 8 December 1938 I shall try to comply with your wishes as much as possible with reference to Book II which I shall make the chief subject of my inquiries.,. The Eastern idea which Mr. Sturdy seems to share is that what I call the unconscious is …

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

Carl Jung on "Ancestral" - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: You live inasmuch as these Mendelian units are living. They have souls, are endowed with psychic life, the psychic life of that ancestor; or you can call it part of an ancestral soul. ~Carl Jung, Zarathustra Seminar, Page 1401. Thus we remain ignorant of whether our ancestral components find an elementary gratification in our lives, …

Gustav Dreifuss: Memory of C.G. Jung: - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Gustav Dreifuss: Memory of C.G. Jung: - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: After about three years of analysis with Dr. Liliane Frey-Rohn, I dreamt an archetypal dream of such a content that Dr. Frey found it to be a dream for the boss! I was very excited about this suggestion and immediately wrote Jung. And then, at the beginning of March, 1951, I received a letter saying …

"Out of this mother is born the Ancient as well as the Infant. . . ." ~Paulinus of Nola - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

"Out of this mother is born the Ancient as well as the Infant. . . ." ~Paulinus of Nola - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Hugo Rahner, S.J. Dear Colleague, 20 November 1944 Very best thanks for kindly sending me your beautiful book. Leafing through it, I was immediately struck by the poem of Paulinus of Nola, especially the verse : “Out of this mother is born the Ancient as well as the Infant. . . .” Just now …

Carl Jung's Dream Analysis Seminar Lecture I; 13 January 1929 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung's Dream Analysis Seminar Lecture I; 13 January 1929 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: LECTURE I 13 January 1929 We are going to continue the series of dreams we began in our last seminar, for you will get a better impression of how dreams are analysed if we follow a series of dreams of the same patient. I have noticed that there are certain prejudices in regard to analysis …

Carl Jung: So we should talk to our animus or anima. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: So we should talk to our animus or anima. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: We can never enter the collective unconscious but we can send the anima or animus to bring us information. By making things with your hands without conscious intent you find a vision of the things of the unconscious. The inspiration working through your hands is animus or anima. This function is personified, and we consider …

Carl Jung Letters on "Prayer" and "Colors in Dreams" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Letters on "Prayer" and "Colors in Dreams" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on Prayer] Dear N. N., 10 September 1943 Here I send you merely a greeting to tell you that I have understood your letter. I have thought much about prayer. It-prayer is very necessary because it makes the Beyond we conjecture and think about an immediate reality, and transposes us into the duality …

Carl Jung Dream Analysis Seminar Lecture VI 12 December 1928 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Dream Analysis Seminar Lecture VI 12 December 1928 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: LECTURE VI 12 December 1928 We come now to an important part of the interpretation of this dream, namely, to your critique and the question of the historical character of the associations. I have exposed my views about this dream quite freely and given you an opportunity to see how one may understand it. I …

Carl Jung: Oh, Master of the Garden - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Oh, Master of the Garden - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: oh master of the garden! I see your dark tree from afar in the shimmering sun. My street leads to the valleys where men live. I am a wandering beggar. And I remain silent. Killing off would-be prophets is a gain for the people. If they want murder, then may they kill their false prophets. …

Carl Jung: The "Eternal Feminine" in Faust is the Sapientia Dei, who is this same Sophia - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: The "Eternal Feminine" in Faust is the Sapientia Dei, who is this same Sophia - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Albert Jung: Dear Colleague 20 May 1947 The interpretation of the figure of Sophia, in the context in which I mentioned it, can only be done with the material handed down from antiquity, and there the interpretation is very simple. She is the Sapientia Dei, as she appears in the wisdom of Solomon. To …

Carl Jung: Dream Analysis Seminar Lecture IV 28 November 1928 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Dream Analysis Seminar Lecture IV 28 November 1928 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Visions Seminar Lecture IV 28 November 1928 Before continuing our dream, I must tell you about certain things which have happened in the meantime. Those of you who are intuitive probably observed that the mood in our second meeting was somewhat upset. We had the bull dream with its community aspect, and so we lived …

Gerhard Dorn Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Gerhard Dorn Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Gerhard Dorn: But no man can know himself unless he know what and not who he is, on whom he depends on whose he is (for by the law of truth no one belongs to himself), and to what end he was made. With this knowledge piety begins, which is concerned with two things, namely, …

The Mandala - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The Mandala - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The mandala symbolizes, by its central point, the ultimate unity of all archetypes as well as the multiplicity of the phenomenal world, and is therefore the empirical equivalent of the metaphysical concept of a unus mundus. The alchemical equivalent is the lapis and its synonyms, in particular the Microcosm. ~Carl Jung; Mysterium Coniunctionis; Page 463; …

Psyche and Matter by Marie-Louise von Franz [Selections] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Psyche and Matter by Marie-Louise von Franz [Selections] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Psyche and Matter by Marie-Louise von Franz selected passages: “Matter and Psyche from the Point of View of the Psychology of C.G. Jung” (1974) “There are probably many different numerical structures that repeatedly make a parallel appearance in the psychic and physical realms. … This is … where further research must be encouraged. When Jung …

Marie-Louise von Franz, Number and Time [Selections] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Marie-Louise von Franz, Number and Time [Selections] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Marie-Louise von Franz, Number and Time SELECTIONS: “In the final analysis the idea of an unus mundus [one world] is founded, as he [Jung] says: “on the assumption that the multiplicity of the empirical world rests on an underlying unity … . [E]verything divided and different belongs to one and the same world … . …

Carl Jung: The dream of a child prior to contracting infantile paralysis. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: The dream of a child prior to contracting infantile paralysis. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Linda Veladini Dear Fraulein Veladini, 25 April 1952 I would gladly corroborate your interesting observations if I were in a position to do so. But I lack the necessary experience in this specialized field. In my practice I have had only one case of infantile paralysis. It was that of a young man, who …

Carl Jung: ...I define the archetypes as irrepresentable forms which clothe themselves with different material... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: ...I define the archetypes as irrepresentable forms which clothe themselves with different material... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Gilles Quispel Dear Dr. Quispel, 21 April 1950 Please forgive me for the long delay in answering your question. I have so much to do and such an enormous correspondence that I often cannot catch up with it with my limited resources. It can easily happen that a letter I would have most liked …

Rabbi David Zeller: It Furthers One To See The Great Man. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Rabbi David Zeller: It Furthers One To See The Great Man. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Growing up in a house with Jung’s picture in most every room, and living in Switzerland with my parents-they in analysis and classes at the Institute, I and my sister in boarding schools in the Alps-this was my opportunity to meet the great man. I wrote a very serious eleven-year-old’s letter asking to meet him, …

Carl Jung Letter to Mary Mellon - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Letter to Mary Mellon - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Mary Mellon Bollingen, 18 April 1941 My dear Mrs. Mellon, anna miseriae I should have written to you long ago, but I was kept so busy by lectures, meetings, patients, that I never found a quiet moment. On top of all I felt very tired and deeply depressed by the senselessness of this war. …

Carl Jung: Psychological treatment cannot rid you of the basic facts of your nature... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Psychological treatment cannot rid you of the basic facts of your nature... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Fraulein N., 23 January 1941 There is much that I do not understand in your letter. If you are suffering from an inferior extraversion, then that is a fact which is nobody’s fault and for which you can hold nobody responsible. It is a difficulty which is rooted in your own nature and which …

I have shot down a proud enemy..~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

I have shot down a proud enemy..~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung Red Book Illustration 122. Truly; I have shot down a proud enemy; I have forced a greater and stronger one to be my friend. Nothing should separate me from him, the dark one. If I want to leave him, he follows me like my shadow. If I do not think of him, he …

Carl Jung: This was my twenty-fifth night in the desert. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: This was my twenty-fifth night in the desert. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: This was my twenty-fifth night in the desert. This is how long it took my soul to awaken from a shadowy being to her own life, until she could approach me as a free-standing being separate from me. And I received hard but salutary words from her. I needed that taking in hand, since I …

Conversation with Native American Chief, Ochwiay Bian - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Conversation with Native American Chief, Ochwiay Bian - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: – Extract from autobiographical book Memories, Dreams, Reflections Conversation with Native American Chief, Ochwiay Biano. ‘See.’ Ochwiay Biano said, ‘how cruel the whites looks. Their lips are thin and their noses are sharp, their faces furrowed and distorted by folds. Their eyes have a staring expression; they are always seeking something. What are they seeking? …

Carl Jung: Dream Analysis Seminar Lecture III 21 November 1928 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Dream Analysis Seminar Lecture III 21 November 1928 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: LECTURE III 21 November 1928 There are two questions today. The first one is: “Is it a characteristic of images in dreams which should be taken on the subjective level that they bring up few associations?” No, one cannot decide by the number of associations whether a dream is to be taken on the subjective …

Carl Jung: Carl Jung: “Divine favour and daemonic evil or danger are archetypal.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Carl Jung: “Divine favour and daemonic evil or danger are archetypal.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: \\ To Father Victor White Dear Victor, Park Hotel, Locarno, 9 April 1952 until 14th Thank you for your human letter. It gives me some idea of what is happening inside of you. The privatio bono does not seem to me such a particular puzzle, but I understand that it is of the greatest importance. …

Carl Jung: "... I console myself with the thought that only a fool expects wisdom." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: "... I console myself with the thought that only a fool expects wisdom." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Alwine von Keller Dear Frau von Keller, Bollingen, 2 January 1949 As I am in Bollingen and your letter came at a favorable hour, I can at last get down to answering you. That at the end of the year one is disposed-and particularly in our well-advanced youth-to backward glances is not …

Carl Jung on “The Extraverted Type." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on “The Extraverted Type." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: In our description of this and the following types it is necessary, for the sake of clarity, to distinguish between the psychology of consciousness and the psychology of the unconscious. We shall first describe the phenomena of consciousness. a. The General Attitude of Consciousness Although it is true that everyone orients himself in accordance with …

Carl Jung: “Above all you must realize that I am not in the habit of interfering with my pupils.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: “Above all you must realize that I am not in the habit of interfering with my pupils.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Jilrg Fierz. Dear Dr. Fierz, 13 January 1949 Above all you must realize that I am not in the habit of interfering with my pupils. I have neither the right nor the might to do that. They can draw such conclusions as seem right to them and must accept full responsibility for it. There …

Flight of the alone - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Flight of the alone - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: It is rather remarkable to note that Dr. Jung concludes The Red Book with the words: “The touchstone is being alone with oneself This is the way.” Compare this with the words with which Plotinus ends The Enneads in the Chapter entitled: “The Flight of the Alone.” The Enneads: “F” (conclusion) Things here are …

Amen, you are the lord of the beginning. ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Amen, you are the lord of the beginning. ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Amen, you are the lord of the beginning.Amen, you are the star of the East.Amen, you are the jfower that blooms over everything.Amen, you are the deer that breaks out of the forest.Amen, you are the song that sounds far over the water.Amen, you are the beginning and the end. ~Carl Jung; Red Book. 126 …

The Return of the Dead - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The Return of the Dead - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The Return of the Dead: Amid the unprecedented carnage of the war, the theme of the return of the dead was widespread, such as in Abel Gance’s film Jaccuse. The death toll also led to a revival of interest in spiritualism. Mter nearly a year, Jung began to write again in the Black Books in …

Amen, you are the lord of the beginning. ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Amen, you are the lord of the beginning. ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Amen, you are the lord of the beginning.Amen, you are the star of the East.Amen, you are the jfower that blooms over everything.Amen, you are the deer that breaks out of the forest.Amen, you are the song that sounds far over the water.Amen, you are the beginning and the end. ~Carl Jung; Red Book. 126 …

Carl Jung: “Psyche = highest intensity in the smallest space.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: “Psyche = highest intensity in the smallest space.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To John Raymond Smythies Dear Dr. Srnythies, 29 February 1952 I hardly dare to write a letter to the Editor of the S.P.R. Journal, as you suggest. I am afraid my English is too poor, too ungrammatical, and too colloquial. Amongst very learned and illustrious philosophers my simple argumentation would have no show. Moreover …

Carl Jung: “Psyche = highest intensity in the smallest space.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: “Psyche = highest intensity in the smallest space.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To John Raymond Smythies Dear Dr. Srnythies, 29 February 1952 I hardly dare to write a letter to the Editor of the S.P.R. Journal, as you suggest. I am afraid my English is too poor, too ungrammatical, and too colloquial. Amongst very learned and illustrious philosophers my simple argumentation would have no show. Moreover …

The Alchemical Salt as Feeling, Eros and Wisdom... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The Alchemical Salt as Feeling, Eros and Wisdom... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The Alchemical Salt as Feeling, Eros and Wisdom: Some light is thrown on the numerous overlapping significations of salt, and the obscurity begins to clear up, when we are informed, further, that one of its principal meanings is soul. As the white substance it is the “white woman,” and the “salt of our magnesia” is …

There are two offshoots from all the Aeons... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

There are two offshoots from all the Aeons... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: There are two offshoots from all the Aeons, having neither beginning nor end, from one root, and this root is a certain Power, an invisible and incomprehensible Silence. One of them appears on high and is a great power, the mind of the whole, who rules all things and is a male; the other below …

The Ultimate Fate of every Dogma............. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The Ultimate Fate of every Dogma............. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The ultimate fate of every dogma is that it gradually becomes soulless. Life wants to create new forms, and therefore, when a dogma loses its vitality, it must perforce activate the archetype that has always helped man to express the mystery of the soul. Note that I do not go so far as to say …

The Ultimate Fate of every Dogma............. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The Ultimate Fate of every Dogma............. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The ultimate fate of every dogma is that it gradually becomes soulless. Life wants to create new forms, and therefore, when a dogma loses its vitality, it must perforce activate the archetype that has always helped man to express the mystery of the soul. Note that I do not go so far as to say …

Carl Jung on the Symbol of the Bee and Kundalini - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the Symbol of the Bee and Kundalini - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on the Symbol of the Bee and Kundalini] To Elined Kotschnig Dear Mrs. Kotschnig, 23 July 1934 The symbol of the bee, though belonging to the general class of the insects, is a very particular one. Insects in general always point to the sympathetic system, usually demonstrating a certain activity therein, owing to …

Carl Jung’s Islands of Peace - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung’s Islands of Peace - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To J. Wesley Neal Dear Sir, 9 February 1952 It is not so easy to answer your question about the “Island of Peace. “ I seem to have quite a number of them, a sort of peaceful archipelago. Some of the main islands are: my garden, the view of distant mountains, my country place where …

Carl Jung: The Kundalini serpent is, however, also a Devi-Kundalini, a chain of glittering lights, the “world bewilderer.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: The Kundalini serpent is, however, also a Devi-Kundalini, a chain of glittering lights, the “world bewilderer.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The Kundalini serpent is, however, also a Devi-Kundalini, a chain of glittering lights, the “world bewilderer.” By creating confusion she produces the world of consciousness, the veil of Maya. It is the anima, the Devi-Sakti, which has conceived the world. (This is, of course, a view which corresponds to male psychology. Seen from the woman’s …

Carl Jung’s Letter on a dream involving the Kundalini - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung’s Letter on a dream involving the Kundalini - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung’s Letter on a dream involving the Kundalini] Dear Mr. N., 5 July 1932 You will realize the extraordinary difficulty of telling anything about Tb people one doesn’t know. Your dream has interested me indeed. The second part of it, the secretary-bird and the snake has been correctly interpreted, in spite of the fact …

Carl Jung on Sigmund Freud Correspondence - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Sigmund Freud Correspondence - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Ernest Jones Dear Jones, 22 February 1952 Freud’s letters in my possession are not particularly important. They chiefly contain remarks about publishers or the organization of the Psychoanalytical Society. And some others are too personal. As a matter of fact I don’t care for their publication. On the whole they wouldn’t be an important …

The future should be left to those of the future. ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The future should be left to those of the future. ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung; Red Book; Illustration 125. The future should be left to those of the future. I return to the small and the real, for this is the great way, the way of what is to come. I return to my simple reality, to my undeniable and most minuscule being. And I take a knife …

Miss Wharton: Would you call those prophetic dreams? - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Miss Wharton: Would you call those prophetic dreams? - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dr. Jung: You can call them prophetic, but with that peculiar psychological inflection naturally. In the so-called prophetic dreams of antiquity, if you dreamt, for instance, that your house or the house of your father had collapsed, it meant that it was really going to collapse, it was a concrete event. But if …

Carl Jung: Thought on the Nature and Value of Speculative Inquiry - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Thought on the Nature and Value of Speculative Inquiry - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung: Thought on the Nature and Value of Speculative Inquiry (Why do you weary yourself about a future that is eternal and so cannot be known?) -Horace, Ode XI, Book II Kant says somewhere that philosophy and the sciences are intellectual luxuries. Just now it is particularly important for us to give some thought …

Carl Jung: Thought on the Nature and Value of Speculative Inquiry - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Thought on the Nature and Value of Speculative Inquiry - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung: Thought on the Nature and Value of Speculative Inquiry (Why do you weary yourself about a future that is eternal and so cannot be known?) -Horace, Ode XI, Book II Kant says somewhere that philosophy and the sciences are intellectual luxuries. Just now it is particularly important for us to give some thought …

Carl Jung on the “new Church dogma." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the “new Church dogma." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Alice Lewisohn Crowley Dear N., Bollingen, 30 December 1951 Thank you ever so much for your juicy collection of culinary delights! I arrived here only yesterday and I still feel a bit tired after the labours of Xmas celebrations. I am practising the gentle art of sleeping. After a while I will …

Carl Jung on Manipura and the value of Desire, Passions, Emotion. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Manipura and the value of Desire, Passions, Emotion. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on Manipura and the value of Desire, Passions, Emotion.] Yes, desire, passions, the whole emotional world breaks loose. Sex, power, and every devil in our nature gets loose when we become acquainted with the unconscious. Then you will suddenly see a new picture of yourself. That is why people are afraid and say …

Carl Jung on Organic and Psychic Symptoms - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Organic and Psychic Symptoms - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Colleague, 8 August 1951 Heartiest thanks for kindly remembering my birthday! I see with regret from your letter that you are suffering very much from your noises in the ear. The unconscious often uses symptoms of this kind in order to make psychic contents audible, i.e., the symptoms are intensified by a …

Carl Jung and a man’s psychology can be undermined by too much motherliness - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung and a man’s psychology can be undermined by too much motherliness - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Anonymous Dear Mr. N., Bollingen, 1 November 1951 I’m sorry to be so late with my answer. Your letter arrived while I was away from home for my vacations. I couldn’t have seen you anyhow during that time. If you hadn’t this relapse of tuberculosis I should have said that you’d better come once again …

Carl Jung on T.S. Elliot and Sartre - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on T.S. Elliot and Sartre - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Dr. S. Dear Colleague, 5 December 1951 Frankly I am surprised at your letting yourself be impressed by T. S. Eliot. Becoming conscious does not in itself lead to hell by any means. It leads to this unpleasant place only if you are conscious of certain things and not of others. You must always …

Carl Jung on the Introvert and University Vice-Chancellor. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the Introvert and University Vice-Chancellor. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Donald A . Rajapakse Dear Mr. Rajapakse, 22 January 1952 As you see I am hastening to your rescue hoping that you did not get yourself into too much of a jam by your making yourself particularlyobnoxious to your Vice-Chancellor. You know that one of the unfortunate qualities of introverts is that they so …

Carl Jung's Vision of Emma Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung's Vision of Emma Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: I experienced this objectivity once again later on. That was after the death of my wife. I saw her in a dream which was like a vision. She was in her prime, perhaps about 30, and wearing the dress which had been made for her many years before by my cousin the medium. It was …

Carl Jung: Dream Analysis Seminar Lecture II 14 November 1928 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Dream Analysis Seminar Lecture II 14 November 1928 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: LECTURE II 14 November 1928 We have here a question: “How is it that we create symbols in dreams? How can we be sure that the interpretation is correct, especially when there are no associations?” That is, of course, a very practical and fundamental question. I had not taken it up here because I took …

Carl Jung and Atmavictu - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung and Atmavictu - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Several times in his life, starting at age 10, Jung carved human figures in wood or in stone. At the age of 45, he had one of these figures reproduced in stone and placed in his garden (see the photo). Only while I was doing this work did the unconscious supply me with a name. …

Carl Jung; Red Book; Illustration 169. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung; Red Book; Illustration 169. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: I set foot on new land. Nothing brought up should flow back. No one shall tear down what I have built. My tower is of iron and has no seams. The devil is forged into the foundations. The Cabiri built it and the master builders were sacrificed with the sword on the battlements of the …

I have shot down a proud enemy ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

I have shot down a proud enemy ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung; Red Book; Illustration 121. Truly; I have shot down a proud enemy; I have forced a greater and stronger one to be my friend. Nothing should separate me from him, the dark one. If I want to leave him, he follows me like my shadow. If I do not think of him, he …

Carl Jung: Your conception of the archetype as a psychic gene is quite possible. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Your conception of the archetype as a psychic gene is quite possible. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Elisabeth Metzger Dear Frau Metzger, 7 February 1942 Your conception of the archetype as a psychic gene is quite possible. It is also a plausible hypothesis that the archetype is produced by the original life urge and then gradually grows up into consciousness-with the qualification, however, that the innermost essence of the archetype can …

Carl Jung: Energy is not to be observed in nature; it does not exist. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Energy is not to be observed in nature; it does not exist. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Energy is not to be observed in nature; it does not exist. What exists in nature is natural force, like a waterfall, or a light, or a fire, or a chemical process. There we apply the term energy, but energy in itself does not exist, despite the fact that you can buy it at the …

Carl Jung: Individuation is a transcendental goal. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Individuation is a transcendental goal. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Pastor Niederer, Easter Monday [26 March]1951 While tidying up my MSS I carne across your kind gift! of Feb. 1949. I doubt whether I ever thanked you for it. Though I have a secretary upon whom it is incumbent to protect me from the consequences of my absent-mindedness and forgetfulness, she too occasionally drowns …

Carl Jung: At all events wisdom cannot be taught by words. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: At all events wisdom cannot be taught by words. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Chang Chung-yuan Dear Sir, 26 June 1950 I have read your pamphlet! with great interest and I can tell you that I fundamentally agree with your views. I see Taoism in the same light as you do. I’m a great admirer of Ch’uang-tze’s philosophy. I was again immersed in the study of his writings …

Carl Jung: At all events wisdom cannot be taught by words. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: At all events wisdom cannot be taught by words. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Chang Chung-yuan Dear Sir, 26 June 1950 I have read your pamphlet! with great interest and I can tell you that I fundamentally agree with your views. I see Taoism in the same light as you do. I’m a great admirer of Ch’uang-tze’s philosophy. I was again immersed in the study of his writings …

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

Carl Jung on "Overpopulation." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Bernard Aschner Dear Colleague, 28 March 1951 I still have vivid memories of our meeting in Vienna, since it was from you that I took over, in my own way, your interest in Paracelsus. During the war, especially, I was much concerned with him, in particular with his religio medica as expounded in his …

Carl Jung's letter to R.J. Zwi Werblowsky - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung's letter to R.J. Zwi Werblowsky - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To R. J. Zwi Werblowsky Dear Herr Werblowsky, 28 March 1951 I hope that in the meantime you have received my short foreword. I am sorry that I am only now getting down to saying a fewwords about some points in your book. P. So. I should propose a somewhat different wording: instead of saying …

Carl Jung’s Letter to Aniela Jaffe - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung’s Letter to Aniela Jaffe - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Aniela Jaffe Dear Aniela, Bollingen, 29 May 1951 So it goes all the time: memories rise up and disappear again, as itsuits them. In this way I have landed the great whale; I mean “Answer to Job.” I can’t say I have fully digested this tour de force of the unconscious. It still goes …

Carl Jung on his relationship to “Answer to Job.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on his relationship to “Answer to Job.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Aniela Jaffe Dear Aniela, 18 July 1951 I a m especially pleased that you could get into such close relationshipwith the second part of my book. So far most people have remained stuck in the first. I personally have the second more at heart because it is bound up with the present and future. …

Carl Jung: The Dream Analysis Seminar Lecture I 7 November 1928 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: The Dream Analysis Seminar Lecture I 7 November 1928 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: LECTURE I 7 November 1928 Ladies and Gentlemen: Dream analysis is the central problem of the analytical treatment, because it is the most important technical means of opening up an avenue to the unconscious. The main object in this treatment, as you know, is to get at the message of the unconscious. The patient comes …

I have shot down a proud enemy ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

I have shot down a proud enemy ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung; Red Book; Illustration 121. Truly; I have shot down a proud enemy; I have forced a greater and stronger one to be my friend. Nothing should separate me from him, the dark one. If I want to leave him, he follows me like my shadow. If I do not think of him, he …

I have shot down a proud enemy ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

I have shot down a proud enemy ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung; Red Book; Illustration 121. Truly; I have shot down a proud enemy; I have forced a greater and stronger one to be my friend. Nothing should separate me from him, the dark one. If I want to leave him, he follows me like my shadow. If I do not think of him, he …

Joseph Wheelwright: A Salute to Toni Wolff - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Joseph Wheelwright: A Salute to Toni Wolff - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: For many years I have managed to work into my speeches-and many personal communications-that Toni Wolff was the best analyst I ever had. She has had formidable competition. The others who have tinkered with my psyche have been Jung, Peter Baynes and Erna Rosenbaum, Elizabeth Whitney and Joe Henderson. I could justify this …

“My sister, my soul, what do you say?” ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

“My sister, my soul, what do you say?” ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung; Red Book Illustration #155: I spoke to her: “My sister, my soul, what do you say?” But she spoke, flattered and therefore tolerantly: “I let grass grow over everything that you do.” I: “That sounds comforting and seems not to say much.” S: “Would you like me to say much? I can also …

Some Youthful Memories of Carl Jung ~Albert Oeri - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Some Youthful Memories of Carl Jung ~Albert Oeri - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Albert Oeri: I suppose I first set eyes on Jung during the time his father was pastor at Dachsen am Rheinf all and we were still quite small. My parents visited his—our fathers were old school friends—and they all wanted their little sons to play together. But nothing could be done. Carl sat in …

Carl Jung: The story of the Temptation clearly reveals the nature of the psychic power with which Jesus came into collision... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: The story of the Temptation clearly reveals the nature of the psychic power with which Jesus came into collision... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “The story of the Temptation clearly reveals the nature of the psychic power with which Jesus came into collision: it was the power-intoxicated devil of the prevailing Caesarean psychology that led him into dire temptation in the wilderness. This devil was the objective psyche that held all the peoples of the Roman Empire under its …

Memory of Carl and Emma Jung by Dorothy Sawyer - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Memory of Carl and Emma Jung by Dorothy Sawyer - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Memory of Carl and Emma Jung by Dorothy Sawyer Less than a year after our wedding, Baldwin and I were on our way to visit Carol Baumann, his mother, in Zurich, Switzerland. It was the summer of 1948. On a student ship called the Tabinta, several fellow passengers openly envied us our probable opportunity to …

Some Carl Jung Quotations XLVI - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Some Carl Jung Quotations XLVI - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Since neurosis is an attitudinal problem, and the attitude depends on, or is grounded in,certain “dominants,” i.e., the ultimate and highest ideas and principles, the problem of attitudecan fairly be characterized as a religious one. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 56-57 They[Archetypes] are primordial psychic experiences which very often give patients access again to …

Publication Deliberations of The Red Book - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Publication Deliberations of The Red Book - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Publication Deliberations From 1922 onward, in addition to discussions with Emma Jung and Toni Wolff, Jung had extensive discussions with Cary Baynes and Wolfgang Stockmayer concerning what to do with Liber Novus, and around its potential publication. Because these discussions took place when he was still working on it, they are critically important. Cary Fink …

Izdubar - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Izdubar - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: This is a portrait of Izdubar. Izdubar was an early name given the figure now known as Gilgamesh, based on a mistranscription. It resembles an illustration of him in Wilhelm Roscher’s Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie. Jung discussed the Gilgamesh epic in 1912 in Transformations and Symbols of the Libido, using the corrected …

Carl Jung on the Ashes of the Dead and Resurrection. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the Ashes of the Dead and Resurrection. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: We still have to deal especially with ashes as the product of cremation. All cults of cremation have an idea in common, to assist the dead person on his way to the hereafter, that is, to assist in resurrection by freeing the soul through destruction of the mortal remains: the soul can thus float into …

Carl Jung on the Pyramids, Death and Resurrection. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the Pyramids, Death and Resurrection. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Then the dreamer sees the pyramids. The symbol of the pyramid we are most familiar with is that in the Egyptian cultural environment and in China. In Egypt, the pyramids even give a great historical epoch its name, the Age of the Pyramids. The pyramids are burial sites, tombs of the kings. For the ancient …

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

Carl Jung on "Resurrection." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on “Resurrection.”] The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” If you want to understand the full tragedy of those words you must realize what they meant: Christ saw that his whole life, devoted to the truth according to his best …

Carl Jung: Apartfrom the Masses said for the soul in the Catholic Church, the provisions we make for the dead are rudimentary - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Apartfrom the Masses said for the soul in the Catholic Church, the provisions we make for the dead are rudimentary - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Apart, however, from the Masses said for the soul in the Catholic Church, the provisions we make for the dead are rudimentary and on the lowest level, not because we cannot convince ourselves of the soul’s immortality, but because we have rationalized the above-mentioned psychological need out of existence. We behave as if we did …

Carl Jung and UFO’s. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung and UFO’s. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Fowler McCormick Dear Fowler, 22 February 1951 It is very kind of you to send me news about the flying saucers again. I have read Gerald Heard’s book in the meantime which is a very emphatic apology for the saucers’ existence. Unfortunately he is preaching his cause a bit too much for my taste. …

Two Encounters with Carl G. Jung by Baldwin Sawyer - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Two Encounters with Carl G. Jung by Baldwin Sawyer - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Two Encounters with Carl G. Jung by Baldwin Sawyer It was summer 1948 when we first met C. G. Jung. Mother had been living in Zurich, and studying Jungian psychology since 1930. She was known as Carol Baumann, from her second marriage. She introduced us to her circle of friends by giving a colorful costumed …

Two Encounters with Carl G. Jung by Baldwin Sawyer - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Two Encounters with Carl G. Jung by Baldwin Sawyer - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Two Encounters with Carl G. Jung by Baldwin Sawyer It was summer 1948 when we first met C. G. Jung. Mother had been living in Zurich, and studying Jungian psychology since 1930. She was known as Carol Baumann, from her second marriage. She introduced us to her circle of friends by giving a colorful costumed …

Carl Jung: … I am a psychiatrist and not a philosopher… - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: … I am a psychiatrist and not a philosopher… - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Heinrich Boltze Dear Herr Boltze, February 1951 For your orientation: I am a psychiatrist and not a philosopher, merely an empiricist who ponders on certain experiences. Psyche for me is an inclusive term for the totality of all so-called psychic processes. Spirit is a qualitative designation for certain psychic contents (rather like …

Carl Jung: … I am a psychiatrist and not a philosopher… - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: … I am a psychiatrist and not a philosopher… - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Heinrich Boltze Dear Herr Boltze, February 1951 For your orientation: I am a psychiatrist and not a philosopher, merely an empiricist who ponders on certain experiences. Psyche for me is an inclusive term for the totality of all so-called psychic processes. Spirit is a qualitative designation for certain psychic contents (rather like …

Carl Jung: ...in all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: ...in all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Thus the anima and life itself are meaningless in so far as they offer no interpretation. Yet they have a nature that can be interpreted, for in all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order, in all caprice a fixed law, for everything that works is grounded on its opposite. It …

The Golden Fabric of God - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The Golden Fabric of God - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung’s Red Book Illumination #115 ‎”One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” Here, the encounter with the shadow within psychic processes – a drawing from the “Red Book.” (Wehr, 1989: 55). Red Book Footnote 219 Image legend: “This is the golden fabric in which the …

Pre-Christian parallels to the Trinity in Babylonia...~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Pre-Christian parallels to the Trinity in Babylonia...~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: A relief image, part of the Babylonian Ishtar gate. [Pre-Christian parallels to the Trinity in Babylonia…~Carl Jung] In proposing to approach this central symbol of Christianity, the Trinity, from the psychological point of view, I realize that I am trespassing on territory that must seem very far removed from psychology. But everything to do with …

Carl Jung on “Empirical Psychology” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on “Empirical Psychology” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Introduction Up to this point we have been treading on the consecrated ground of Kantian philosophy. But who will accompany us further if we choose to burst open the gates that bar our entrance into the “realm of darkness”? Is it not maddening when Kant himself says: “Experience cannot possibly teach us that there exist …

Carl Jung on “Empirical Psychology” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on “Empirical Psychology” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Introduction Up to this point we have been treading on the consecrated ground of Kantian philosophy. But who will accompany us further if we choose to burst open the gates that bar our entrance into the “realm of darkness”? Is it not maddening when Kant himself says: “Experience cannot possibly teach us that there exist …

Carl Jung on the Buber-Jung controversy - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the Buber-Jung controversy - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Bernhard Lang Dear Colleague, June 1957 Many thanks for your friendly letter, which shows that the Buber-Jung controversy is a serious matter for you. And so indeed it is, for here that threshold which separates two epochs plays the principal role. I mean by that threshold the theory of knowledge whose starting point is …

Carl Jung after his embolism laid him up for a month. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung after his embolism laid him up for a month. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Eugen Bohler Dear friend, 25 February 1960 It is time I gave you some news of my existence. I am now well enough to write letters again. On Jan. 23rd I had a slight embolism followed by not too severe heart cramps. I was under house arrest for a month, forbidden all mental activity, …

Carl Jung after his embolism laid him up for a month. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung after his embolism laid him up for a month. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Eugen Bohler Dear friend, 25 February 1960 It is time I gave you some news of my existence. I am now well enough to write letters again. On Jan. 23rd I had a slight embolism followed by not too severe heart cramps. I was under house arrest for a month, forbidden all mental activity, …

Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Dr. S. Dear Colleague, 8 October 1947 I gather from your description that you are indeed climbing too high. Sanskrit and India really are a bit much. You must turn back to the simple things, just as your dream says, to the forest. There is the star. You must go in quest of yourself, …

Carl Jung on approaching the age where one is “left behind.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on approaching the age where one is “left behind.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Michael Fordham Dear Fordham, 18 June 1954 Your letter brings bad news; I am really sorry that you didn’t get the post at the Institute of Psychiatry although it may be a small consolation to you that they took at least your pupil, Dr. Hobson. Well, after all, you are approaching the age when …

The Power of the Black Rod. ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The Power of the Black Rod. ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: S: “Don’t be rash. Magic doesn’t demand that sacrifice. Itdemands another sacrifice.”I: “What sacrifice is that?”S: “The sacrifice that magic demands is solace.”I: “Solace? Do I understand correctly? Understanding you isunspeakably difficult. Tell me, what does this mean?”S: “Solace is to be sacrificed.”I: “What do you mean? Should the solace that I give or thesolace …

Memory of C.G. Jung by Isabelle Hamilton Rey - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Memory of C.G. Jung by Isabelle Hamilton Rey - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Memory of C.G. Jung by Isabelle Hamilton Rey Excerpts from Letter of Isabelle Hamilton Rey written from Zurich , Switzerland, 1933 to her husband in New York. January 17th, 1933 .. . Today I had my first lesson with Dr. Jung; it is really a lesson. He is immensely simple, and simply immense. He is …

M. I. Rix Weaver: An Interview with C.G. Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

M. I. Rix Weaver: An Interview with C.G. Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: On November 22, 1955, I visited Dr. Jung at his home in Kusnacht. Though I had met Jung and had listened to him speak, I looked forward to having a period with him alone. When I came to Zurich in 1951 to study at the C. G. Jung Institute, Jung no longer lectured students, but …

Carl Jung: Memories Dreams and Reflections is not an Autobiography - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Memories Dreams and Reflections is not an Autobiography - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The book [Memories Dreams and Reflections] should appear under her [Jaffe’s] name and not under mine, since it does not represent an autobiography that I myself have composed. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Page 550. His “autobiography” he came to reluctantly; it was “the one thing I am not going to write” he had said …

Memory of C.G. Jung by Suzanne Percheron - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Memory of C.G. Jung by Suzanne Percheron - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Memory of C.G. Jung by Suzanne Percheron: Extracts from notes taken by Suzanne Percheron during or immediately after regular interviews she had with C. G. Jung from 1935 to 1961. The parts in parentheses are words spoken by S. Percheron. All others are recorded statements made by C. G. Jung, set down by her and …

Carl Jung on Hatha Yoga - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Hatha Yoga - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on Hatha Yoga] To Pater X. Dear Pater, 17 January 1942 Thank you very much for your kind letter and the parcel of books. I am truly astonished at the depth and the extent of your study of yoga. As you say very rightly, some people pay no attention to yoga because they …

Late in his life Dr. Jung stopped dreaming - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Late in his life Dr. Jung stopped dreaming - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Late in his life Dr. Jung stopped dreaming.] Suzanne Percheron: I suppose that you dream? Dr. Jung: No, I almost don’t dream anymore. (!!!) I used to dream when I began to discover my unconscious. One dreams when the unconscious has something to say, but my consciousness is always so receptive now that the door …

On November 14, 1939, Dr. Jung discusses the possible outcome to World War II. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

On November 14, 1939, Dr. Jung discusses the possible outcome to World War II. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [World War II began on September 3, 1939. In this remarkable Analytical Session with Catherine “Katy” Cabot Dr. Jung discusses the possible outcome of the War on November 14, 1939.] We spoke of Germany, an how long the War would last. Onkel said that Germany has extraordinary fighting power, but had no sustenance. For one …

The Winds in between loosen the Crucified - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The Winds in between loosen the Crucified - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: How sweet, how bitterit tastes! The Below is weak,The Above is weak The form of the Oneit tastes! becomes double. North, rise and be gone,West, retire to your place, East, spread yourself,South, die down. The winds in betweenloosen the crucified. [Carl Jung Red Book; Illumination #135] Red Book Footnote #248 Inscription: “Completed on 25 November …

Carl Jung on The Border Zones of Exact Science - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on The Border Zones of Exact Science - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung on The Border Zones of Exact Science My intention, in venturing to dedicate my little talk to a theme unrelated to the most eminent aspect of our motto Patria, is to make a modest contribution toward the elucidation of certain questions that might have remained open in the intriguing talks of  members of …

Sigrid Strauss-Klobe: Memory of C.G. Jung: - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Sigrid Strauss-Klobe: Memory of C.G. Jung: - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Sigrid Strauss-Klobe: Memory of C.G. Jung: I would like to tell about three encounters with C. G. Jung. I was present at the memorial address that Jung gave for his deceased friend Richard Wilhelm in May, 1930. Jung spoke as one who was deeply moved, personally, and his words reflected the close ties he had …

Carl Jung on Power, Love and Tao... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Power, Love and Tao... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on Power, Love and Tao from an Analysis Session with his patient Catherine “Katy” Cabot who recorded this passage in her Diary. She affectionately refers to him as “Onkle.”] Onkel said, when I told him that I enjoyed society things, and that society was my bid complex, that behind it was “a role …

Carl Jung on Judgment at the time of Death.... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Judgment at the time of Death.... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on Judgment at Death from an Analysis Session with his patient Catherine “Katy” Cabot who recorded this passage in her Diary. She affectionately refers to him as “Onkle.”] Onkel went on to say the following: “It is important to do everything one can before one dies. If, before one dies, one can tell …

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

Carl Jung on “Prayer.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Anonymous Dear N., Bollingen,3 August 1953 Hearty thanks for your kind birthday wishes! Unfortunately I can’t remember here in Bollingen what you sent me. There was such a flood of letters, flowers, and things pouring in on me that I can remember absolutely nothing except your letter with its main point, the question of prayer. …

Carl Jung on the Quaternity. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the Quaternity. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on the Quaternity.] Quaternity: An image with a four-fold structure, usually square or circular and symmetrical; psychologically, it points to the idea of wholeness. The quaternity is one of the most widespread archetypes and has also proved to be one of the most useful schemata for representing the arrangement of the …

Carl Jung: Yoga, to me, is no more than a subject for research. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Yoga, to me, is no more than a subject for research. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Pater X. Dear Pater, 17 January 1942 Thank you very much for your kind letter and the parcel of books. I am truly astonished at the depth and the extent of your study of yoga. As you say very rightly, some people pay no attention to yoga because they do not take it seriously, …

Carl Jung on Atlantis and Reincarnation - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Atlantis and Reincarnation - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on Atlantis and Reincarnation] To Baroness Tinti Dear Baroness, 10 January 1936 Many thanks for your interesting letter. Indeed, many of the peculiarities of the figures in the unconscious could be explained by a long-lasting primeval matriarchy if only we knew for certain that it ever existed, just as the flood myths could …

Carl Jung on “Gnosis,” “Archetypes,” and “Aion.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on “Gnosis,” “Archetypes,” and “Aion.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To H. Haberlandt Dear Colleague, 23 April 1952 Very many thanks for kindly sending me your review of Aion. It stands out from all the others because it is obvious that its author has really read the book, which is something I am grateful for. I therefore venture to ask you to let me know …

Carl Jung: But when you die, nobody else will die for you or instead of you. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: But when you die, nobody else will die for you or instead of you. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To J. Allen Gilbert Dear Dr. Gilbert, 20 April 1946 Your letters have reached me after all. It was a great pleasure to see that you haven’t changed yet, you have continued the “rhinoceros walks.” I remember vividly those tracks of the pachyderm in the African jungle, and still more the smooth footpaths of the …

Carl Jung's Red Book Illumination #119 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung's Red Book Illumination #119 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung’s Illumination #119 from The Red Book. I am he, the nameless one, who does not know himself and whose name is concealed even from himself I have no name, since I have not yet existed, but have only just become. To myself I am an Anabaptist and a stranger. I, who I am, …

Carl Jung on "Rational Psychology" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on "Rational Psychology" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Rational Psychology Introduction “Well, that’s all just as nice as pie,” says the educated philistine, “but I don’t believe in things unless I see them with my own eyes. And what you call metaphysics has been out of date for a long time, nobody takes it seriously any more, and if any metaphysical notions are …

Carl Jung on if there is “personal survival after death or not.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on if there is “personal survival after death or not.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To H. J. Barrett Dear Mr. Barrett, 12 October 1956 Although my time is short and my old age is a real fact, I would like to answer to your questions. They are not quite easy, f.i. the first question whether I believe in personal survival after death or not, I could not say that …

He [Jung] delightedly said that Miss von Franz had independently had the same dream when she slept on that spot. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

He [Jung] delightedly said that Miss von Franz had independently had the same dream when she slept on that spot. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: J. Marvin Spiegelman: Memory of C.G. Jung My memories of Jung come from the period March, 1956, to March, 1959, during which I was a student at the Institute in Zurich. He was to be seen at least once or twice a year then, at a public or Institute lecture or at a seminar for …

Carl Jung Quotations 29 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Quotations 29 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: And mind you, the animus is as terrible a reality as the anima. ~Carl Jung, Zarathustra Seminar, Page 295 Through being creative one creates the thing that has come into existence in this moment, that was in a potential existence before. ~Carl Jung, Zarathustra Seminar, Page 73 Inasmuch as you say these creative forces are …

Carl Jung on Emmanuel Kant – Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Emmanuel Kant – Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Today we are convinced that in all fields of knowledge psychological premises exist which exert a decisive influence upon the choice of material, the method of investigation, the nature of the conclusions, and the formulation of hypotheses and theories. We have even come to believe that Kant’s personality was a decisive conditioning factor of his …

Carl Jung on “Archetype,” “Atom,” “Numbers.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on “Archetype,” “Atom,” “Numbers.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Dr. H. Dear Dr. H., 30 August 1951 You must pardon my long silence. In the spring I was plagued by my liver, had often to stay in bed and in the midst of this misery write a little essay (ca.100 typed pages) whose publication is causing me some trouble. I am afraid of …

Carl Jung: "This compensates for 1,000 misunderstandings!." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: "This compensates for 1,000 misunderstandings!." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Erich Neumann My dear Neumann, Bollingen, 5 January 1952 Very many thanks for your kind letter and the way you have understood me. This compensates for 1,000 misunderstandings! You have put your finger on the right spot, a painful one for me: I could no longer consider the average reader. Rather, he has to …

Carl Jung on Toni Wolff - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Toni Wolff - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung on Toni Wolff. [Below is an Excerpt from “Jung, My Mother and I.” Catherine “Katy” Cabot knew Carl Jung and many of the early pioneers of Depth Psychology. She was a patient of Carl Jung’s and Toni Wolff. She affectionately referred to Dr. Jung as “Onkle.” She maintained a diary of her meetings …

Carl Jung: As a rule the undifferentiated function always lags behind real life a little and is constantly oriented to the past - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: As a rule the undifferentiated function always lags behind real life a little and is constantly oriented to the past - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To J. Heider Dear Herr Heider, 1 December 1937 As to your question about X., I can only say the following. It frequently happens that when a person with whom one was intimate dies, either one is oneself drawn into the death, so to speak, or else this burden has the opposite effect of a …

Carl Jung: A controversial book of mine is to appear shortly... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: A controversial book of mine is to appear shortly... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Walter Uhsadel Dear Pastor Uhsadel, 6 February 1952 It is extraordinarily kind of you to wish to dedicate your book to me, and I would gladly accept this dedication if I were certain that you would be equally pleased in the future. My wife has pointed out that this might possibly not be the case …

Carl Jung: The unconscious can realize itself only with the help of consciousness and under its constant control. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: The unconscious can realize itself only with the help of consciousness and under its constant control. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Dr. N., 2 December 1937 I have the feeling that you are really going a bit too far. We should make a halt before something destructive. You know what my attitude is to the unconscious. There is no point in delivering oneself over to it to the last drop. If that were the right …

Memory of Emma Jung by Sheila Moon - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Memory of Emma Jung by Sheila Moon - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Memory of Emma Jung by Sheila Moon A few weeks ago I was walking in the spring woods and recalling Emma Jung-that incomparable Swiss “godmother”-and I was going back to the initial meeting with her. In the midst of my memories suddenly I realized that I probably would never have written my first novel for …

Carl Jung: " The serious illness of my wife has consumed all my spare time." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: " The serious illness of my wife has consumed all my spare time." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Father Victor White Dear Victor, 6 May 1955 The serious illness of my wife has consumed all my spare time. She has undergone an operation so far successfully, but it has left her in a feeble state needing careful nursing for several weeks to come. Since I am the cause of much discomfort to …

Carl Jung ...I'm a jealous lover of the I Ching... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung ...I'm a jealous lover of the I Ching... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Mr. N., 25 October 1935 I absolutely share your appreciation of the I Ching and whatever good things you have to say about it, but most certainly I’m not going to sympathize with your very Western idea of making an institute of it. You may know a great deal of the soul of the …

Carl Jung: a scream is always just that-a noise and not music. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: a scream is always just that-a noise and not music. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Walter Mertens Dear Walter, 24 November 1932 I am entirely in agreement with the spirit of your essay on Picasso. I am only against artists getting away with it like the theologians, about whom one may not say anything critical. I don’t see why artists should not have exactly the same human psychology as …

Carl Jung on the “European” and the “Indian.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the “European” and the “Indian.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The Indian can forget neither the body nor the mind, while the European is always forgetting either the one or the other. With this capacity to forget he has, for the time being, conquered the world. Not so the Indian. He not only knows his own nature, but he also knows how much he himself …

Carl Jung: "Psychic reality" is a controversial concept, like "psyche" or "mind." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: "Psychic reality" is a controversial concept, like "psyche" or "mind." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “Psychic reality” is a controversial concept, like “psyche” or “mind.” By the latter terms some understand consciousness and its contents, others allow the existence of “dark” or “subconscious” representations. Some include instincts in the psychic realm, others exclude them. The vast majority consider the psyche to be a result of biochemical processes in the brain …

Carl Jung on Modern Art and the Artist. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Modern Art and the Artist. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Walter Mertens Dear Walter, 24 November 1932 I am entirely in agreement with the spirit of your essay on Picasso. I am only against artists getting away with it like the theologians, about whom one may not say anything critical. I don’t see why artists should not have exactly the same human psychology as …

Carl Jung's Letter to Frances Wickes August 9, 1926 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung's Letter to Frances Wickes August 9, 1926 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [For those familiar with “The Red Book” the passage in this letter to Frances G. Wickes stating “They apparently worship the sun. But it isn’t the sun, it is the moment of dawn: that is God.” Brings to mind the profoundly beautiful passages about “Phanes” in “The Red Book” which may be found at the …

Carl Jung's Letter to Frances Wickes August 9, 1926 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung's Letter to Frances Wickes August 9, 1926 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [For those familiar with “The Red Book” the passage in this letter to Frances G. Wickes stating “They apparently worship the sun. But it isn’t the sun, it is the moment of dawn: that is God.” Brings to mind the profoundly beautiful passages about “Phanes” in “The Red Book” which may be found at the …

Memory of Emma Jung by Elined Prys Kotschnig - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Memory of Emma Jung by Elined Prys Kotschnig - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Memory of Emma Jung by Elined Prys Kotschnig She was a big, well-built, earth mother type, rather shy, and truly modest. She was not in the least fazed at being the wife of C. G. Jung. She had grown into the stage of his world-fame at his side, and took it naturally. I recall telling …

Carl Jung on Buddha, Karma, Pali-Canon. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Buddha, Karma, Pali-Canon. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on Buddha, Karma, Pali-Canon.] Anonymous Dear Mrs. N., 30 March 1960Thank you very much for your kind attention! The book will interest me very much, also what you told me about the Buddhist Society came quite a propos, since I have been studying Buddha’s sermons in the Middle Collection of the Pali-Canon for …

Carl Jung on Mathematics, Synchronicity and Biology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Mathematics, Synchronicity and Biology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To E . L. Grant Watson Dear Mr. Watson, 9 February 1956 You are surely touching upon a most important fact when you begin to question the coincidence of a purely mathematical deductionwith physical facts, such as the sectio aurea (the Fibonacci series.) My source calls him Fibonacci, not -nicci. He lived 1180-1250) and in …

Memory of C.G. Jung by Robert Johnson - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Memory of C.G. Jung by Robert Johnson - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Memory of C.G. Jung by Robert Johnson My contact with Dr. Jung?-certainly one of the most important events of my life! When I enrolled in the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich at its first term in 1948 there were some thirty students, diverse in nature, I the youngest at age twenty-seven. I began analysis …

Carl Jung on “Solitude.” [Anthology] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on “Solitude.” [Anthology] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Everyone who becomes conscious of even a fraction of his unconscious gets outside his own time and social stratum into a kind of solitude. ~Carl Jung; Mysterium Coniunctionis; CW 14: Page 258. I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the …

Some Carl Jung Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Some Carl Jung Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Kitchen West Wall 128 The individual ego is the stable in which the Christ-child is born. ~Carl Jung; CW 11, Para 207 Gods are personifications of unconscious contents, for they reveal themselves to us through the unconscious activity of the psyche. Carl Jung, CW 11, Page 163. It is a privilege born of human freedom …

Some Carl Jung Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Some Carl Jung Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Kitchen West Wall 128 The individual ego is the stable in which the Christ-child is born. ~Carl Jung; CW 11, Para 207 Gods are personifications of unconscious contents, for they reveal themselves to us through the unconscious activity of the psyche. Carl Jung, CW 11, Page 163. It is a privilege born of human freedom …

Memory of Toni Wolff by Helena Henderson - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Memory of Toni Wolff by Helena Henderson - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Memory of Toni Wolff by Helena Henderson I worked with Miss Wolff for a short time when I was only nineteen. It was really more like counselling than analysis, since I was so young . But what she did was excellent, and I am sure it had more effect than I consciously realized. I remember …

Memory of Emma Jung by Elizabeth B. Howes - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Memory of Emma Jung by Elizabeth B. Howes - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Memory of Emma Jung by Elizabeth B. Howes In 1955, I had the privilege of working analytically with Mrs. Jung for several months. Many times since then I have found myself saying to groups, when speaking of my contact with the Jung’s, that I found Mrs. Jung the most integrated person in Zurich. I said …

Carl Jung: "I cannot love anyone if I hate myself." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: "I cannot love anyone if I hate myself." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice. And thus, from …

Carl Jung: "I cannot love anyone if I hate myself." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: "I cannot love anyone if I hate myself." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice. And thus, from …

Memory of Toni Wolff by Joseph L. Henderson - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Memory of Toni Wolff by Joseph L. Henderson - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Memory of Toni Wolff by Joseph L. Henderson Still today there seems to be a misconception about the relationship of C. G. Jung with his close assistant, Toni Wolff. Their love relationship has been given its psychological justification in Barbara Hannah’s and Laurens van der Post’s biographical studies of Jung. What is not so well …

Carl Jung on “Modern Art” and “Black Magic.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on “Modern Art” and “Black Magic.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Horst Scharschuch Dear Herr Scharschuch, 1 September 1952 There can be no doubt that the unconscious comes to the surface in modern art and with its dynamism destroys the orderliness that is characteristic of consciousness. This process is a phenomenon that can be observed in more or less developed form in all epochs, as …

Carl Jung on "ESP" and "Synchronicity." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on "ESP" and "Synchronicity." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To J. B . Rhine Dear Dr. Rhine, 9 August 1954 Thank you for your kind letter. The English translation of “Synchronicity” will be published by the Bollingen Press The translator is Mr. Hull, who is translating my Collected Works. He has a fair understanding of the synchronicity concept, which au fond is not complicated …

Memory of C.G. Jung by Jutta Von Graevenitz - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Memory of C.G. Jung by Jutta Von Graevenitz - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Memory of C.G. Jung by Jutta Von Graevenitz It may have been in the year 1932 when, arriving at the Stuttgart railroad station, my husband and I noticed near the train a merry and lively group of people. They obviously had come to meet a tall, strong, middle-aged man, well dressed and impressive. I recognized …

Carl Jung on Erich Neumann's heartfelt letter. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Erich Neumann's heartfelt letter. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Erich Neumann Dear Neumann, 15 December 1955 Deepest thanks for your heartfelt letter. Let me in return express my condolences on the loss of your mother. I am sorry I can only set down these dry words, but the shock I have experienced is so greatthat I can neither concentrate nor recover my power …

Carl Jung: "It is lovely to hear the word "friend" from you." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: "It is lovely to hear the word "friend" from you." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Richard Wilhelm Dear friend, 25 May 1929 It is lovely to hear the word “friend” from you. Fate seems to have apportioned to us the role of two piers which support the bridge between East and West. I thank you with all my heart that you are willing to give the lecture. For the …

Carl Jung "Zofingia Lectures" - Anthology Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung "Zofingia Lectures" - Anthology Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: As many good citizens of Basel here present will gladly testify, my family, on both sides, have always been peculiarly given to offending well-meaning citizens because it is not our custom to mince words and, wearing an amiable smirk, to wheedle our honorable, highly estimable uncles, aunties, and cousins with flattering ways.  ~Carl Jung, Zofingia …

Joseph Campbell: ...the Sumerian myth of the goddess Inanna's descent to the nether world. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Joseph Campbell: ...the Sumerian myth of the goddess Inanna's descent to the nether world. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The oldest recorded account of the passage through the gates of metamorphosis is the Sumerian myth of the goddess Inanna’s descent to the nether world. From the “great above” she set her mind towardthe “great below,” The goddess, from the “great above” she set hermind toward the “great below,” Inanna, from the “great above” she …

The Buddhist Unconscious (Alaya-vijnana) and Jung’s Collective Unconscious: What Does It Mean to be Liberated from the Self? - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The Buddhist Unconscious (Alaya-vijnana) and Jung’s Collective Unconscious: What Does It Mean to be Liberated from the Self? - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The Buddhist Unconscious (Alaya-vijnana) and Jung’s Collective Unconscious: What Does It Mean to be Liberated from the Self? Polly Young-Eisendrath Jung Personal Collective Unconscious Abhidharma. The Buddhist Unconscious (Alaya-vijnana) and Jung’s Collective Unconscious: What Does It Mean to be Liberated from the Self? Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D.: In a 1958 dialogue between Carl G. Jung and …

Some Carl Jung Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Some Carl Jung Quotations - 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, Page 401. If we say “God”? we give an expression to an image or verbal concept which …

Memory of Emma Jung by Werner H. Engel - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Memory of Emma Jung by Werner H. Engel - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Memory of Emma Jung by Werner H. Engel To Emma Jung I owe an utterly powerful experience. It was about a year before her death. There had been various questions on her mind referring to her wide interests, and the copies did not exclude personal matters. In a series of meetings that we shared, problems …

Memory of C.G. Jung by Roland Cahen - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Memory of C.G. Jung by Roland Cahen - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Memory of C.G. Jung by Roland Cahen In this interview Dr. Cahen recounts how he first met Jung at the age of twenty-two, through a series of lucky circumstances. “I arrived at Zurich at one o’clock,” he tells in the interview, “and there was a course by Jung at the Polytechnic Institute at five o’clock. …

The story of two young women: "How can we expect righteousness to prevail..." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The story of two young women: "How can we expect righteousness to prevail..." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [The story of two young women. How can we expect righteousness to prevail…] Sophie Scholl was a German student and revolutionary, active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. She was convicted of high treason after having been found distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich with her brother …

Carl Jung's Letter to Pastor Fritz Pfafflin - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung's Letter to Pastor Fritz Pfafflin - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Pastor Fritz Pfafflin [On communication with Pastor Pfafflin’s recently deceased brother] Dear Pastor Pfafflin, First of all I would like to express my heartfelt sympathy over the heavy loss that has befallen you. Since you wish to know what I think about such experiences, I would like to point out before anything else that there …

Carl Jung and Marie Louise Von Franz’s contributions to “Aion.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung and Marie Louise Von Franz’s contributions to “Aion.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To E . A. Bennet Dear Bennet, 28 June 1959 I have chosen the title Aion because the contents of the German edition are chiefly connected with the psychological changes characteristic of the transition from one historical aeon, i.e., era, or segment of historical time, to another. The other essay is M.-L. von Franz’s “Passio …

Margaret Gildea: Jung as seen by and Editor, A Student and A Disciple - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Margaret Gildea: Jung as seen by and Editor, A Student and A Disciple - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Margaret Gildea: Jung as seen by and Editor, A Student and A Disciple My real contact with Carl Jung was limited to the year 1931, all of which I spent in Zurich, working with him and his group. I was in my mid-twenties, and he was in his mid-fifties. Although the great American depression had …

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

Carl Jung on “Clairvoyance.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on “Clairvoyance.”] To S. Wieser Dear Colleague, 6 July 1951 Thank you for telling me about your interesting experience. It is a case of what we would call clairvoyance. But since this is just a word that signifies nothing further, it explains nothing. You can get a bit nearer to understanding such happenings …

Memory of Toni Wolff by Bess Bolton - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Memory of Toni Wolff by Bess Bolton - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Memory of Toni Wolff by Bess Bolton In 1951 I went to Zurich to study at the C. G. Jung Institute. It was in one of the lectures that I heard about using active imagination, as well as one’s dreams, to get in touch with the unconscious. With Miss Wolff’s support and encouragement I was …

Frederick Spielbergjet: This ghost trap I brought to Dr. Jung,... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Frederick Spielbergjet: This ghost trap I brought to Dr. Jung,... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Frederick Spielberg: Memory of C.G. Jung: It was a colossal privilege for me to have been entitled to have several long talks with Jung. In 1949, in Sikkim, I had discovered and acquired fourteen different types of Tibetan ghost traps, used for astrological, medical, and other reasons. In Zurich I constructed a model of one …

Carl Jung to Erich Neumann on the Death of Emma Jung. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung to Erich Neumann on the Death of Emma Jung. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung to Erich Neumann on the Death of Emma Jung.] I would have liked to tell the heart you have opened to me in friendship that two days before the death of my wife I had what one can only call a great illumination which, like a flash of lightning, lit up a centuries-old …

Carl Jung: The Practice of Psychotherapy CW 16; Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: The Practice of Psychotherapy CW 16; Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung: The Practice of Psychotherapy – YouTube   Carl Jung:  CW 16:  “The Practice of Psychotherapy”   An exclusively sexual interpretation of dreams and fantasies is a shocking violation of the patient’s psychological material: infantile-sexual fantasy is by no means the whole story, since the material also contains a creative element, the purpose …

Memory of C.G. Jung by Henry K. Fierz - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Memory of C.G. Jung by Henry K. Fierz - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Memory of C.G. Jung by Henry K. Fierz The first time I met C. G. Jung was in 1928. After the first world war there was in Europe a very dangerous epidemic of flu. My mother got the disease and nearly died of it. Afterwards she again and again had relapses till my parents decided …

Carl Jung on “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “Love thy neighbour” is wonderful, since we then have nothing to do about ourselves; but when it is a question of “love thy neighbour as thyself” we are no longer so sure, for we think it would be egoism to love ourselves. There was no need to preach “love thyself” to people in olden times, …

Carl Jung on “The Animal in Man.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on “The Animal in Man.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: When we say “the animal in man,” this always strikes us as something horrible. But this animal in man is not horrible, no more than animals are horrible, for they fulfill God’s will most faithfully; they live to fulfill their Creator’s purpose. We do not do this. We meddle with the work of the Creator, …

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

Carl Jung on "Christianity." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: We always think that Christianity consists in a particular confession of faith and in belonging to a Church. No, Christianity is our world. Everything we think is the fruit of the Middle Ages and indeed of the Christian Middle Ages. Our whole science, everything that passes through our head, has inevitably gone through this history. …

Carl Jung Letter to Mircea Eliade - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Letter to Mircea Eliade - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Oh, oh…Carl Jung chastises Mircea Eliade] Letter from Carl Jung to Mircea Eliade: It is an honor to have been sent a copy of your book on yoga. I greatly appreciate your kindness and generosity. I am now studying your work very carefully and profoundly enjoying its riches. It is certainly the best and most …

Some Carl Jung Quotations XLV - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Some Carl Jung Quotations XLV - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: But to have soul is the whole venture of life, for soul is a life-giving daemon who plays his elfin game above and below human existence, for which reason-in the realm of dogma he is threatened and propitiated with superhuman punishments and blessings that go far beyond the possible deserts of human beings. …

Carl Jung: "Reason" is, notoriously, not necessarily ethical any more than intelligence is. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: "Reason" is, notoriously, not necessarily ethical any more than intelligence is. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Pastor Tanner Dear Pastor Tanner, 12 February 1959 Before going into the question you have asked me I would like to thank you for the sympathetic interest you have taken in my opinions. As you rightly remark, it is difficult to discuss the question of “faith without religion” because we must first …

Carl Jung Quotations [July 14, 2017] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Quotations [July 14, 2017] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: That the imitation of Christ creates a corresponding shadow in the unconscious hardly needs demonstrating. The fact that John had visions at all is evidence of an unusual tension between conscious and unconscious. ~Carl Jung, CW 11, Par 717. Looked at theologically, my concept of the anima, for instance, is pure Gnosticism; hence I am …

Toni Wolff by A. I. Allenby - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Toni Wolff by A. I. Allenby - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Toni Wolff by A. I. Allenby There is only one anecdote about Toni Wolff that I can remember. It does not reveal much about her, but let me tell it for what it is worth. This story went round the students and analysands collected in Zurich at the time; a period in which the practice …

Erich Neumann: We find ourselves in a strongly extraverted phase—how else could Palestine be developed? - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Erich Neumann: We find ourselves in a strongly extraverted phase—how else could Palestine be developed? - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Erich Neumann: I can well imagine that Palestine will get dangerously close to the abyss and I assume that the Jews, in a paradoxical situation, will then come to their senses—as ever.] Dear Doctor Jung, I had actually intended not to write to you from here until I had really settled in and …

The I Ching (Book of Changes) and Hexagram 39 "Obstruction" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The I Ching (Book of Changes) and Hexagram 39 "Obstruction" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [The Wilhelm-Baynes translation of the I-Ching may be found here: http://www.pantherwebworks.com/I_Ching/bk1h31-41.html#39] 39. Chien / Obstruction above K’AN THE ABYSMAL, WATERbelow K’AN KEEPING STILL, MOUNTAIN The hexagram pictures a dangerous abyss lying before us and a steep, inaccessible mountain rising behind us. We are surrounded by obstacles; at the same time, since the mountain has the …

Carl Jung Letter to the Reverend Morton T. Kelsey dated 03May1958 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Letter to the Reverend Morton T. Kelsey dated 03May1958 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung Letter to the Reverend Morton T. Kelsey dated 03May1958] the Rev. Morton T KelseyDear Mr. Kelsey,[ORIGINAL IN ENGLISH]3 May 1958 Thank you very much for your kind letter. 1 I appreciate it indeed, since it is the first and only one I got from a Protestant theologian [in the U.S.A.] who has read …

"Synchronicity" is all too often tossed about describing events which do not adhere to the synchronistic events - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

"Synchronicity" is all too often tossed about describing events which do not adhere to the synchronistic events - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Sadly “Synchronicity” is all too often tossed about describing events which do not adhere to the synchronistic events as used within Depth Psychology.] Synchronicity:A phenomenon where an event in the outside world coincides meaningfully with a psychological state of mind. Synchronicity . . . consists of two factors: a) An unconscious image comes into consciousness …

Some Carl Jung Quotations [Posted July 13, 2017] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Some Carl Jung Quotations [Posted July 13, 2017] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: 31May17 Quotations Master – Copy – Copy 31May2017Anthologies Therefore it is always single individuals who are moved by the collective problem and who are called upon to respond and contribute to its solution by tackling it in their own lives and not running away from it. ~Carl Jung, Basel Seminar, Para 86 Individuation is a …

Carl Jung: "Why don't they understand me?" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: "Why don't they understand me?" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung: “Why don’t they understand me?”] Memory of C.G. Jung by William Alex The time had come to say goodbye to Dr. Jung and to Zurich. I thought this meeting would probably be my last encounter with him. He was aging and I was preparing to cross an ocean and a continent to contend …

Memory of Toni Wolff by Gerhard Adler: - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Memory of Toni Wolff by Gerhard Adler: - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Memory of Toni Wolff by Gerhard Adler: Dr. Adler wrote: “This is the letter I wrote on the occasion of Toni Wolff~death to Pfovver Schair, the clergyman who officiated at the memorial service. He had asked Toni’s friends for help with his memorial oration, and he found my letter worthwhile reading at the service. It …

[Carl Jung on being "Alone."] Anthology. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

[Carl Jung on being "Alone."] Anthology. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on being “Alone.”] Anthology. My I, you are a barbarian. I want to live with you; therefore I will carry you through an utterly medieval Hell, until you are capable of making living with you bearable. You should be the vessel and womb of life, therefore I shall purify you. The touchstone is …

Joseph Campbell: The source of temporal life is eternity. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Joseph Campbell: The source of temporal life is eternity. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Here is what was said in a more complete context: MOYERS: What does that mean, “Eternity is in love with the productions of time”? CAMPBELL: The source of temporal life is eternity. Eternity pours itself into the world. It is a basic mythic idea of the god who becomes many in us. In India, the …