No man can converse with an animus... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

No man can converse with an animus... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Jung’s view of the animus: “No man can converse with an animus for five minutes without becoming the victim of his own anima.” In context: “No matter how friendly and obliging a woman’s Eros may be, no logic on earth can shake her if she is ridden by the animus. . . . [A man] …

When animus and anima meet - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

When animus and anima meet - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: This singular fact is due to the following circumstance: when animus and anima meet, the animus draws his sword of power and the anima ejects her poison of illusion and seduction. The outcome need not always be negative, since the two are equally likely to fall in love (a special instance of love …

Carl Jung not a member of a “Fantastical Organization.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung not a member of a “Fantastical Organization.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Sir, 10 October 1956 I don’t know where you picked up this rather childish yarn about directors of world affairs located in Tibetan lamaseries. It would be a difficult task if anybody should venture to ask you for the slightest evidence in this respect. At all events I can tell you that …

Though the effects of anima and animus can be made conscious... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Though the effects of anima and animus can be made conscious... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung: “Though the effects of anima and animus can be made conscious, they themselves are factors transcending consciousness and beyond the reach of perception and volition.” Context: Though the effects of anima and animus can be made conscious, they themselves are factors transcending consciousness and beyond the reach of perception and volition. Hence they …

Carl Jung: If the Reformation is a heresy, I am certainly a heretic too. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: If the Reformation is a heresy, I am certainly a heretic too. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To the Rev. H. L. Philp Dear Mr. Philp, 26 October 1956 Thank you very much for calling my attention to this new concoction Christian Essays in Psychiatry. The idea that I convert people, as it were, to the new denomination “Jungianism” or better “Jungian Church” is sheer defamation. I know a considerable …

Carl Jung: So a new psychology began to make itself felt. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: So a new psychology began to make itself felt. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dr. Jung: Suppose we are in the year 2200 B.C., on the 21st of March, and Aries is just coming over the horizon at 1 degree. This is the spring-point, that is, the intersection of the line of the ecliptic with the equator of the sky. Each one of the zodiacal signs represents 30 degrees. …

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

Carl Jung on "Science" - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung on Science: Every science is a function of the mind, and all knowledge is rooted in it. The mind is the greatest of all cosmic wonders. – “On the Nature of the Psyche” (1947). In CW 8: The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche. P.357 If we do not fashion for ourselves a …

The animus is the deposit... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The animus is the deposit... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “The animus is the deposit, as it were, of all woman’s ancestral experiences of man-and not only that, he is also a creative and procreative being, not in the sense of masculine creativity, but in the sense that he brings forth something we might call . . . the spermatic word.” [“Anima and Animus,” CW …

Memories, Dreams and Reflections........ - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Memories, Dreams and Reflections........ - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Some Excerpts from Memories, Dreams and Reflections: Jung regarded himself primarily as a doctor, a psychiatrist. [p. x] On the other hand, my recollection of ‘inner’ experiences has grown all the more vivid and colorful. This poses a problem of description which I scarcely feel able to cope with, at least for the present. Unfortunately, …

Carl Jung on Wotan and the Pied Piper - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Wotan and the Pied Piper - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Melvin J. Lasky Dear Mr. Lasky, September 1956 Best thanks for sending me the three issues of Der Monat with James P. O’Donnell’s article “Der Rattenfiinger von Hameln”and the replies by Hans Scholz and Dr. E. Schmitz-Cliever. I have read them with great interest and can fully concur with the views of …

Life does not come from events, but from us. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Life does not come from events, but from us. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Life does not come from events, but from us. Everything that happens outside has already been. Therefore whoever considers the event from outside always sees only that it already was, and that it is always the same. But whoever looks from inside, knows that everything is new. The events that happen are always the same. …

The importance of The Red Book in Dr. Jung's subsequent work - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The importance of The Red Book in Dr. Jung's subsequent work - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [The importance of The Red Book in Dr. Jung’s subsequent work.] Image from The Red Book prior to the Preface. Related

Why did Jung stop working on Liber' Novus? - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Why did Jung stop working on Liber' Novus? - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The Confrontation with the World Why did Jung stop working on Liber’ Novus? In his afterword, written in 1959, he wrote: My acquaintance with alchemy in 1930 took me away from it. The beginning of the end came in 1928, when [Richard] Wilhelm sent me the text of the “Golden flower,” an alchemical treatise. There …

Carl Jung on Wotan and the Pied Piper - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Wotan and the Pied Piper - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Melvin J. Lasky Dear Mr. Lasky, September 1956 Best thanks for sending me the three issues of Der Monat with James P. O’Donnell’s article “Der Rattenfiinger von Hameln”and the replies by Hans Scholz and Dr. E. Schmitz-Cliever. I have read them with great interest and can fully concur with the views of …

Carl Jung: As a matter of fact my first and most gifted pupils were Jews. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: As a matter of fact my first and most gifted pupils were Jews. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Abraham Aaron Roback Dear Mr. Roback, 19 December 1936 I have received your big book1 for which I thank you warmly. As a matter of fact I found it at home when I came back from my rather long trip. Your remark has interested me very much, namely that you have made …

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

Carl Jung on “Perfect Individuation.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Henry A . Murray Dear Dr. Murray, August 1956 Thank you ever so much for your kind letter. It is a great pleasure for me to hear of you after this long time. I thank you also for your good birthday wishes. My correspondence with Freud will not be published in the …

The Maternal Instinct - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The Maternal Instinct - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The overdevelopment of the maternal instinct is identical with that well-known image of the mother which has been glorified in all ages and all tongues. This is the mother love which is one of the most moving and unforgettable memories of our lives, the mysterious root of all growth and change; the love that means …

Carl Jung's Dream Analysis Seminar, Lecture VIII, 27 November 1929 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung's Dream Analysis Seminar, Lecture VIII, 27 November 1929 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: LECTURE VIII 27 November 1929 Before we discuss further the cross and crescent symbols in their relative aspect, I want to demonstrate to you how symbolic facts leak out in families. A little girl four or five years old has made a drawing of the things we have been talking about. The mother is in …

Dreams and Prophecy - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Dreams and Prophecy - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The prospective function, on the other hand, is an anticipation in the unconscious of future conscious achievements, something like a preliminary exercise or sketch, or a plan roughed out in advance. . . . The occurrence of prospective dreams cannot be denied. It would be wrong to call them prophetic, because at bottom they are …

Carl Jung on the “Great Dream” of a Modern Man. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the “Great Dream” of a Modern Man. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Patrick Evans Dear Mr. Evans, 1 September 1956 Thank you for telling me of your interesting dream. The dream is quite remarkable in its simplicity. It is what the primitives would call a “great dream.” Your attempt at an interpretation is not wrong, but it is a sort of sideline, though important …

Excerpts on "Thinking" from The Red Book. Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Excerpts on "Thinking" from The Red Book. Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: My spirit is a spirit of torment, it tears asunder my contemplation, it would dismantle everything and rip it apart. I am still a victim of my thinking. When can I order my thinking to be quiet, so that my thoughts, those unruly hounds, will crawl to my feet? How can I ever hope to …

Philemon's Second Sermon to the Dead - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Philemon's Second Sermon to the Dead - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The Creation, c. 1896-1902, by James Tissot, at the Jewish Museum (New York) That night Philemon stood beside me and the dead drew near and lined the walls and cried out,”We want to know about God. Where is God? Is God dead?” But Philemon rose and said (and this is the second sermon to the dead): “God …

Philemon's Fifth Sermon to the Dead - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Philemon's Fifth Sermon to the Dead - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: When the following night came, the dead approached noisily, pushing and shoving; they were scoffing and exclaimed, “Teach us, fool, about the church and holy communion.” But Philemon stepped before them, and began to speak: (and this is the fifth sermon to the dead): “The world of the Gods is made manifest in spirituality and in sexuality. The celestial …

Diligently heat the roots of consciousness and life - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Diligently heat the roots of consciousness and life - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “Gathering the light” — an illustration of the first stage of meditation 1. Cessation of Outflowing If thou wouldst complete the diamond body with no outflowing.Diligently heat the roots of consciousness and life.Kindle light in the blessed country ever close at hand,And there hidden, let thy true self always dwell. The illustration found here in …

Images from Carl Jung's "Psychology and Alchemy." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Images from Carl Jung's "Psychology and Alchemy." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Images from Carl Jung’s “Psychology and Alchemy.”] This will be added to. Related

Carl Jung on having a house and land of your own. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on having a house and land of your own. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Anonymous Dear N., August 1956 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 growth, for the earth always wants children-houses, trees, …

Philemon's Second Sermon to the Dead - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Philemon's Second Sermon to the Dead - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The Creation, c. 1896-1902, by James Tissot, at the Jewish Museum (New York) That night Philemon stood beside me and the dead drew near and lined the walls and cried out,”We want to know about God. Where is God? Is God dead?” But Philemon rose and said (and this is the second sermon to the dead): “God …

Carl Jung: There is little use in teaching wisdom. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: There is little use in teaching wisdom. - 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 …

Carl Jung on Astrology and Synchronicity - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Astrology and Synchronicity - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Enrique Butelman Dear Sir, July 1956 Concerning the Spanish translation of my book Naturerkliirung und Psyche I should advise you to make use of the English version. In comparison with the original German text there are quite a number of improvements in the English, which I think should be considered in the …

Carl Jung: The disposition or instinctual "pattern" is inherited, but not the idea itself. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: The disposition or instinctual "pattern" is inherited, but not the idea itself. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Lad is K. Kristof Dear Herr Kristof, July 1956 Since, as you know, I am not a philosopher but an empiricist, my concept of the collective unconscious is not a philosophical but an empirical one. I designate by this term all our experiences of “behaviour patterns” in so far as these support or …

Carl Jung on the decline of traditional values in India and China. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the decline of traditional values in India and China. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Adolf Keller Dear friend, August 1956 My last letter was not meant to be a letter of farewell; it merely gave vent to my annoyance that you have failed to see how much I have struggled to understand the dogmatic conception of Christ psychologically. Now as ever I am of the opinion …

Carl Jung: There was a time when there were only four signs in the Zodiac. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: There was a time when there were only four signs in the Zodiac. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Here is another paradox. In order to solve that puzzle, we should say, the thing that matters is not the position of the stars, the thing that matters is time. You can call time what you like. It is quite indifferent whether you say the spring-point is zero degrees Aries or 28 Pisces; that is …

Carl Jung on “The Spirit in Matter." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on “The Spirit in Matter." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on “The Spirit in Matter.] II. The Spirit in Matter All these ideas were the common property of alchemy from earliest times. Zosimos, writing in the third century a.d., quotes one of the very oldest authorities on alchemy in his treatise: “Concerning the Art and Its Interpretation,”namely Ostanes,” who belongs to the dawn …

Carl Jung on “The Spirit in Matter." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on “The Spirit in Matter." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on “The Spirit in Matter.] II. The Spirit in Matter All these ideas were the common property of alchemy from earliest times. Zosimos, writing in the third century a.d., quotes one of the very oldest authorities on alchemy in his treatise: “Concerning the Art and Its Interpretation,”namely Ostanes,” who belongs to the dawn …

Carl Jung: Must gold prove its necessity? It is proven through the longing of men. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Must gold prove its necessity? It is proven through the longing of men. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Gold Nuggest Soon after this on an autumn night I heard the voice of an old man (and this time I knew that it was Philemon. He said: I want to turn you around. I want to master you. I want to emboss you like a coin. I want to do business with you. One should buy and sell …

I cannot accept this hollow nothing that I am. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

I cannot accept this hollow nothing that I am. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: A monk walking in a Benedictine monastery. I resist, I cannot accept this hollow nothing that I am. What am I? What is my I? I always presuppose my I. Now it stands before me-I before my I. I speak now to you, my I: I We are alone and our being together threatens to become unbearably boring. …

Philemon's First Sermon to the Dead - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Philemon's First Sermon to the Dead - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Then Philemon lifted his voice and taught them, saying (and this is the first sermon to the dead) “Now hear: I begin with nothingness. Nothingness is the same as the fullness. In infinity full is as good as empty. Nothingness is empty and full. You might just as well say anything else about nothingness, for instance, that it is …

Carl Jung: Each person works on his own pillar, until one day the temple will be built. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Each person works on his own pillar, until one day the temple will be built. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Max Zeller: Memory of C.G. Jung When I was in Zurich in 1949, the first time after the war, I was terribly occupied with the question, “What am I doing as an analyst?” With the overwhelming problems in the world, to see twenty or twenty-five patients, that’s nothing. What are we doing, all …

Carl Jung on “Meditation and Imagination.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on “Meditation and Imagination.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung on “Meditation and Imagination.” The point of view described above is supported by the alchemist’s remarkable use of the terms meditatio and imaginatio. Ruland’s Lexicon alchemiae defines meditatio as follows: “The word meditatio is used when a man has an inner dialogue with someone unseen. It may be with God, when He is …

Carl Jung on “The Psychology of Dreams.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on “The Psychology of Dreams.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on “The Psychology of Dreams.”] A dream is a psychic structure which at first sight appears to be in striking contrast with conscious thought, because judging by its form and substance, it apparently does not lie within the continuity of development of the conscious contents, it is not integral to it, but is …

Carl Jung to his Daughter on the death of her mother, Emma Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung to his Daughter on the death of her mother, Emma Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Marianne Niehus-Jung Dear Marianne, Bollingen, 17 July 1956 Warmest thanks for your lovely letter, which was a great joy. I am glad you weren’t bored with me. It was also a joy to be together with you for a while. It is true that one cannot fully realize something that is not …

Beginning is smallest. ~Carl Jung, - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Beginning is smallest. ~Carl Jung, - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Relief from Samothrace in the Louvre showing Agamemnon being initiated into the rites of the Cabeiri. What serviceable forms rise from your body, you thieving abyss! These appear as elemental spirits, dressed in wrinkled garb, Cabiri, with delightful misshapen forms, young and yet old, dwarfish, shriveled, unspectacular bearers of secret arts, …

Carl Jung on Extrovert and Introvert “There is no such thing as schematic classification.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Extrovert and Introvert “There is no such thing as schematic classification.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on Extrovert and Introvert “There is no such thing as schematic classification.”] Dr. Evans: Of course, one of the very common misconceptions, at least in my opinion, about your work among some of the writers in Americais that they have characterized your discussion of introversion and extroversion as suggesting that the world is …

Carl Jung on Sigmund Freud - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Sigmund Freud - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Benjamin Nelson Dear Professor Nelson, 17 June 1956 If I were younger I should take great pleasure in following your kind proposition to write a comprehensible essay about the confusing mass of opinions aroused by Freud’s essential discovery: the psychological enchainment of psychopathological phenomena and its consequences for normal psychology. But-helas-in the …

Carl Jung: Through the crucified ... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Through the crucified ... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Crucifix, sculpture by Michelangelo, Santo Spirito Church, Florence, Italy (ca. 1494), a depiction of naked crucifixion with the genitals of the condemned exposed Truly; the way leads through the crucified, that means through him to whom it was no small thing to live his own life, and who was therefore …

Carl Jung: We have no idea of absolute reality, because "reality" is always something "observed." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: We have no idea of absolute reality, because "reality" is always something "observed." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To J. Allen Gilbert My dear Dr. Gilbert, 2 January 1929 Please be kind to your fellow beings! Don’t think that they are all damned fools, even if they say excitingly foolish things, even if they are the most inconsistent idiots. Allow for one grain of wisdom in all their foolishness. Can’t you …

Carl Jung's: A woman asks why her child was born an imbecile. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung's: A woman asks why her child was born an imbecile. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: A woman asks Dr. Jung why her child was born an imbecile.] Dear Frau N., 28 June 1956 It is hard to accept the fate you have described. Quite apart from the moral achievement required, complete acceptance depends very much on the conception you have of fate. An exclusively causal view is permissible …

You will not reach the sun............ - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

You will not reach the sun............ - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: You gain everything from the God whom you bear, but not his weapon, since he crushed it. He who conquers needs weapons. But what else do you want to conquer? You cannot conquer more than the earth. And what is the earth? It is round allover and hangs like a drop in the cosmos. You …

Carl Jung: Where the fear, there is your task! - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Where the fear, there is your task! - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Warner S. McCullen Dear Mr. McCullen, 4 June 1956 The loss of the mother in the early years of childhood often leaves traces in the form of a mother-complex. If the influence of a living mother is too strong, it has the same effect as when she is absent. In either case …

Symbolism of the Chakra system of Kundalini Yoga - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Symbolism of the Chakra system of Kundalini Yoga - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung gave a series of lectures in 1932 where he explored thesymbolism of the Chakra system of Kundalini Yoga, and compared it tostages of psychological/spiritual development. I think the parallels arevery compelling, and consistent with advaita at a higher level. Here are some excerpts from a book, “The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga”,edited by Sonu …

My yoke is sweet, and my burden is light. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

My yoke is sweet, and my burden is light. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: St. Christopher, the giant, bore his burden with difficulty, despite the fact that he bore only the Christ child. But I was as small as a child and bore a giant, and yet my burden lifted me up. The Christ child became an easy burden for the giant Christopher, since Christ himself said, “My yoke …

Carl Jung to Maud Oakes - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung to Maud Oakes - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Maud Oakes Dear Miss Oakes, 11 February 1956 I have read your meditation about the stone with much interest. Your method of reading its message is adequate and in this case the only one yielding positive results. You understand the stone as a statement about a more or less limitless world of …

Carl Jung: Whole numbers may well be the discovery of God's "primal thoughts,"… - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Whole numbers may well be the discovery of God's "primal thoughts,"… - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Robert Dietrich Dear Herr Dietrich, 27 May 1956 Best thanks for kindly telling me your interesting dream. Mathematicians are not agreed whether numbers were invented or discovered. “In the Olympian host Number eternally reigns” (Jacobi). Whole numbers may well be the discovery of God’s “primal thoughts,” as for instance the significant number four, …

Carl Jung on why some people believe in God. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on why some people believe in God. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To B . A. Snowdon Dear Mr. Snowdon, 7 May 1955 You were quite right in believing I would answer your letter. You are obviously a sincere man to whom one can give a straight answer. You want to know why you believe so confidently in the existence of God, and you mention …

Carl Jung: Christ Broke Himself - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Christ Broke Himself - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Orazio Borgianni – Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane Have you heard of those dark ones who roamed incognito alongside those who ruled the day, conspiratorially causing unrest? Who devised cunning things and did not shrink from any crime to honor their God? Beside them place Christ, who was the greatest among them. It was too little for him …

Carl Jung: Christ is not an archetype but a personification of the archetype. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Christ is not an archetype but a personification of the archetype. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Helene Kiener Dear Fraulein Kiener, 1 June 1956 I would answer your questions as follows: The “Christ archetype” is a false concept, as you say. Christ is not an archetype but a personification of the archetype. This is reflected in the idea of the Anthropos, the homo maximus or Primordial Man (Adam …

The Human Soul turned into a Nazareth - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The Human Soul turned into a Nazareth - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Old postcard of Nazareth women, based on photo by Félix Bonfils §  People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls . They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn theosophy by heart, or mechanically repeat mystic text from the literature of the …

Carl Jung on the “Treasure Hard to Attain.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the “Treasure Hard to Attain.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on the “Treasure Hard to Attain.”] The “treasure hard to attain,” whose presence was suspected in the dark prima materia, is symbolized by the alchemists in various ways. Christopher of Paris, for instance, says that the chaos (as prima materia) is the work of all-wise nature. Our understanding {intellect us), aided by the …

Carl Jung: Magic is a Way of Living - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Magic is a Way of Living - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses” by John William Waterhouse Magic is a way of living. If one has done one’s best to steer the chariot, and one then notices that a greater other is actually steering it, then magical operation takes place. One cannot say what the effect of magic will be, since no one can …

Carl Jung: You rightly emphasize that man in my view is enclosed in the psyche (not in his psyche). - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: You rightly emphasize that man in my view is enclosed in the psyche (not in his psyche). - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Joseph Goldbrunner Dear Herr Goldbrunner, 14May 1950 Permit me, as one who is, in a manner of speaking, both known and unknown to you, to express my best thanks for your objective and sympathetic exposition of my psychology. There are indeed few authors, as you yourself have probably observed, who could wring …

The Buddha therefore finally gave up on rebirth... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The Buddha therefore finally gave up on rebirth... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: As long as you are not conscious of your self you can live; but if you become conscious of your self you fall from one grave into another. All your rebirths could ultimately make you sick. The Buddha therefore finally gave up on rebirth, for he had had enough of crawling through all human and …

Carl Jung's Dream Analysis Seminars Lecture VI 13 November 1929 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung's Dream Analysis Seminars Lecture VI 13 November 1929 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: LECTURE VI 13 November 1929 We will devote the seminar today to Dr. Harding’s report about the moon. THE SYMBOLISM OF THE CRESCENT AND ITS PSYCHOLOGICAL MEANlNGS Before reading this paper on the crescent I should like to make a few remarks on the nature of the problem that the group found themselves confronted with. …

Carl Jung on Ethics - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Ethics - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To William Kinney Dear Mr. Kinney, 26 May 1956 In answering your letter of May 7th I must tell you that there is neither an easy answer to the problem of ethics nor are there any books that would give you satisfactory guidance as far as my knowledge goes. Ethics depend upon the …

Carl Jung on the "New Ethic." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the "New Ethic." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: 1 Gordon St., Tel Aviv, ISRAEL Dear Neumann, I was very pleased to hear from you once again and to hear that you have read my small brochure. It seems to have been a hit here as there is already a second print run underway. In relation to the so-called New Ethic we …

Carl Jung on The Unicorn Cup - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on The Unicorn Cup - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: i. The Unicorn Cup The healing cup is not unconnected with the “cup of salvation,” the Eucharistic Chalice, and with the vessel used in divination. Migne says that Cardinal Torquemada always kept a unicorn cup at table: “La corne de licorne preserve des sortileges” (fig. 261). Hippolytus, in his summing up of the teachings of …

Barbara Hannah: "Storm Clouds over Europe 1933-1937" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Barbara Hannah: "Storm Clouds over Europe 1933-1937" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Storm Clouds over Europe 1933–1937 In 1926 Jung had already become painfully aware of the tension in the atmosphere in Europe. In fact, it is clear, from what I have heard of the Polzeath seminar in 1923, that he had been uneasy about Western man’s lack of an impersonal attitude ever since the First World …

Carl Jung: For your age and your circumstances you are still much too fractious. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: For your age and your circumstances you are still much too fractious. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Frau V. Dear Frau V., 12 May 1956 After your kindness in sending me these excellent bottles of Chateauneuf du Pape, I really did expect that some quite special favours had been piling up on your side. But if you are now in the dumps and up to your ears in the …

Carl Jung: For your age and your circumstances you are still much too fractious. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: For your age and your circumstances you are still much too fractious. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Frau V. Dear Frau V., 12 May 1956 After your kindness in sending me these excellent bottles of Chateauneuf du Pape, I really did expect that some quite special favours had been piling up on your side. But if you are now in the dumps and up to your ears in the …

A Child is not born Tabula Rasa - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

A Child is not born Tabula Rasa - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Female Figure (Sibyl with Tabula Rasa) by Diego Velázquez, ca. 1648 It is in my view a great mistake to suppose that the psyche of a new-born child is a tabula rasa in the sense that there is absolutely nothing in it. In so far as the child is born with a differentiated brain that …

Carl Jung; Soul is the living thing in man, that which lives of itself and causes life. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung; Soul is the living thing in man, that which lives of itself and causes life. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Being that has soul is living being. Soul is the living thing in man, that which lives of itself and causes life. Therefore God breathed into Adam a living breath, that he might live. With her cunning play of illusions the soul lures into life the inertness of matter that does not want …

Listen to the Lament of the Dead and Accept them with Love - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Listen to the Lament of the Dead and Accept them with Love - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem” by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. Do not throw yourself against what has become, enraged or bent on destruction. What will you put in its place? Do you not know that if you are successful in destroying what has become, you will then turn the will of destruction against yourself? But anyone who makes …

Listen to the Lament of the Dead and Accept them with Love - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Listen to the Lament of the Dead and Accept them with Love - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem” by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. Do not throw yourself against what has become, enraged or bent on destruction. What will you put in its place? Do you not know that if you are successful in destroying what has become, you will then turn the will of destruction against yourself? But anyone who makes …

Carl Jung: When we have made a God - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: When we have made a God - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: When we have succeeded in making a God, and if through this creation our whole force has entered into this design, we are filled with an overwhelming desire to rise with the divine sun and to become a part of its magnificence. But we forget that we are then no more than hollow forms, since giving form to …

Carl Jung: The purpose of nearly all rebirth rites is to unite the above with the below. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: The purpose of nearly all rebirth rites is to unite the above with the below. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Johanna Michaelis Dear Frau Michaelis, 20 January 1939 Your questions are not easy to answer. Your conjecture that ancient Egyptian psychology was somehow fundamentally different from ours is probably right. Those millennia had indeed quite different problems. On one side a torpid impersonal unconsciousness reigned, on the other a revealed consciousness, or …

Carl Jung: You Must Obey Your Own Law - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: You Must Obey Your Own Law - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Am Klostertor What is it, in the end, that induces a man to go his own way and to rise out of unconscious identity with the mass as out of a swathing mist? Not necessity, for necessity comes to many, and they all take refuge in convention. Not moral decision, for nine …

Carl Jung: Just as every Jew has a Christ complex, so every Negro has a white complex and every American a Negro complex. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Just as every Jew has a Christ complex, so every Negro has a white complex and every American a Negro complex. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: All American life seems to be the life of the big settlement real town-life. Even the smallest settlement denies itself the character of a village and tends to become a city. The town rules the whole style of living, even in the country. It seems as though everything were collective and standardized. Once on a …

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: The purpose of nearly all rebirth rites is to unite the above with the below. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: The purpose of nearly all rebirth rites is to unite the above with the below. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Johanna Michaelis Dear Frau Michaelis, 20 January 1939 Your questions are not easy to answer. Your conjecture that ancient Egyptian psychology was somehow fundamentally different from ours is probably right. Those millennia had indeed quite different problems. On one side a torpid impersonal unconsciousness reigned, on the other a revealed consciousness, or …

Carl Jung: In Africa there is a well-known technical expression for this: "going black." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: In Africa there is a well-known technical expression for this: "going black." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: At the beginning of our era, three-fifths of the population of Italy consisted of slaves—human chattels without rights. Every Roman was surrounded by slaves. The slave and his psychology flooded ancient Italy, and every Roman became inwardly a slave. Living constantly in the atmosphere of slaves, he became infected with their psychology. No one can …

Carl Jung on “The Relativity of the Symbol” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on “The Relativity of the Symbol” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The Worship of Woman and the Worship of the Soul The Christian principle which unites the opposites is the worship of God, in Buddhism it is the worship of the self (self-development), while in Spitteler and Goethe it is the worship of the soul symbolized by the worship of woman. Implicit in this categorization is …

Carl Jung on "Wholeness" Quotations Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on "Wholeness" Quotations Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: • Although “wholeness” seems at first sight to be nothing but an abstract idea (like anima and animus), it is nevertheless empirical in so far as it is anticipated by the psyche in the form of spontaneous or autonomous symbols. These are the quaternity or mandala symbols, which occur not only in the dreams of …

Jung's view of the four stages of anima development - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Jung's view of the four stages of anima development - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Jung’s view of the four stages of anima development: Four stages of eroticism were known in the late classical period: Hawwah (Eve), Helen (of Troy), the Virgin Mary, and Sophia. The series is repeated in Goethe’s Faust: in the figure of Gretchen as the personification of a purely instinctual relationship (Eve); Helen as an anima …

Carl Jung: For decades I have been either not understood or misunderstood... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: For decades I have been either not understood or misunderstood... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung: For decades I have been either not understood or misunderstood…] To Eugen Bohler Dear Professor Bohler, May 1956 Best thanks for your friendly letter and my apologies for tearing the MS away from you. All the copies have still to be corrected. I have already availed myself of your valuable suggestions, …

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

Carl Jung on "Complexes" - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung on “Complexes” – Anthology Since, psychologically speaking, the God-image is a complex of ideas of an archetypal nature, it must necessarily be regarded as representing a certain sum of energy (libido) which appears in projection ~Carl Jung, CW 5, Para 89   By psyche I understand the totality of all psychic processes, conscious …

Carl Jung’s gift from Laurens van der Post - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung’s gift from Laurens van der Post - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Laurens van der Post Dear van der Post, 28 February 1956 Your amiable present from Africa has reached me safely. The bow and the little arrows are just charming. I could not refrain from trying Cupid’s weapon and I can confirm its efficiency. It shoots quite a distance. I am much obliged …

Carl Jung reviews Jolande Jacobi’s book - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung reviews Jolande Jacobi’s book - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Jolande Jacobi Dear Dr. Jacobi, 13 March 1956 Forgive me for being so late with my report. I have read your essay in the Psyche Festschrift with great interest. It is a very good presentation of my concepts, or rather of the names I use to express empirical facts. But I always …

Carl Jung on Freud and Religion - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Freud and Religion - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Andrew R. Eickhoff Dear Mr. Eickhoff, 7 May 1956 Thank you very much for sending your interesting MS about Freud and Religion. The historical fact is that Freud’s attitude towards religion in any form was a negative one, quite apart from the fact that he himself said so in his paper about …

All these myth-pictures represent a drama... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

All these myth-pictures represent a drama... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “Now, all these myth-pictures represent a drama of the human psyche on the further side of consciousness, showing man as both the one to be redeemed and the redeemer. The first formulation is Christian, the second alchemical. In the first case man attributes the need of redemption to himself and leaves the work of redemption, …

All these myth-pictures represent a drama... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

All these myth-pictures represent a drama... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “Now, all these myth-pictures represent a drama of the human psyche on the further side of consciousness, showing man as both the one to be redeemed and the redeemer. The first formulation is Christian, the second alchemical. In the first case man attributes the need of redemption to himself and leaves the work of redemption, …

Every man carries within him the eternal image of woman... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Every man carries within him the eternal image of woman... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “Every man carries within him the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite feminine image. This image is fundamentally unconscious, an hereditary factor of primordial origin engraved in the living organic system of the man, an imprint or ‘archetype” of all the ancestral experiences of the …

Carl Jung on Archetypes - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Archetypes - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung on Archetypes: Archetypes are like riverbeds which dry up when the water deserts them, but which it can find again at any time. An archetype is like an old watercourse along which the water of life has flowed for centuries, digging a deep channel for itself. The longer it has flowed in this …

Stars whisper your deepest mysteries to you - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Stars whisper your deepest mysteries to you - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: But if you watch closely, you will see what you have never seen before, namely that things live their life, and that they live off you: the rivers bear your life to the valley, one stone falls upon another with your force, plants and animals also grow through you and they are the cause of …

The Anima is bipolar... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The Anima is bipolar... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “The anima is bipolar and can therefore appear positive one moment and negative the next; now young, now old; now mother, now maiden; now a good fairy, now a witch; now a saint, now a whore. “ The fuller paragraph: “When, therefore, in dreams and other spontaneous products we meet an unknown female figure whose …

Women are a magical force... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Women are a magical force... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “Women are a magical force. They surround themselves with an emotional tension stronger than the rationality of men…. Woman is a very, very strong being, magical. That is why, I am afraid ofwomen.” Carl Jung; (From an interview in 1941.) “The demands of the unconscious act at first like a paralyzing poison on a man’s …

Carl Jung on the Psyche and Carcinoma - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the Psyche and Carcinoma - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Rudolf Jung Dear Cousin, 11 May 1956 Your views on the origin of a carcinoma seem to me largely correct. I have in fact seen cases where the carcinoma broke out under the conditions you envisage, when a person comes to a halt at some essential point in his individuation or cannot …

Are We Sons of God? ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Are We Sons of God? ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: God the Father and the Holy Spirit with a young Jesus, by Murillo, c. 1670. Are we not sons of the Gods? Why should Gods not be our children? If my father the God should die, a God child should arise from my maternal heart. Since I love the God and do not want to leave him. Only …

I recall my Solar Nature - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

I recall my Solar Nature - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: But what about men, what about mankind? There they stood, the two deserted bridges that should lead across to mankind: one leads from above to below, and men glide down on it, which pleases them. / The other leads from below to above and mankind groans upward on it. This causes them trouble. We drive our fellow men to trouble …

Dreams pave the way for life... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Dreams pave the way for life... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The spirit of the depths even taught me to consider my action and my decision as dependent on dreams. Dreams pave the way for life, and they determine you without you understanding their language. One would like to learn this language, but who can teach and learn it? Scholarliness alone is not enough; there is …

Carl Jung and “Eros” – Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung and “Eros” – Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: It [Eros] is not form-giving but form-fulfilling; it is the wine that will be poured into the vessel; it is not the bed and direction of the stream but the impetuous water flowing in it. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 365. Salome is hence apparently no (complete) correct embodiment of Eros, but a variety of …

Carl Jung's Dream Analysis Seminar Lecture V 6 November 1929 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung's Dream Analysis Seminar Lecture V 6 November 1929 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: LECTURE V 6 November 1929 Today, as I promised you, we shall hear the reports on the cross and the crescent. We will begin with the more familiar, the cross, which Dr. Barrett has prepared. SYMBOLISM OF THE CROSS That the cross has been of great symbolic significance to mankind for many ages is beyond …

Carl Jung: I was thrown back on experience alone. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: I was thrown back on experience alone. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Pastor Walter Bernet Dear Pastor Bernet, 13 June 1955 At last I have got down to reading and studying your book which you so kindly sent me. Please put the slowness of this procedure down to my old age! It was certainly not lack of interest that kept me reading so long, …

Carl Jung on James and Lucia Joyce - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on James and Lucia Joyce - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on James and Lucia Joyce] To Patricia Graecen Dear Mrs. Graecen 29 June 1955 I n fulfilling your wishes I have corrected the pages of your MS here enclosed. The question of the letter to Joyce is mysterious. I am rather certain that I never wrote to him but the remark …

Carl Jung: He is Gargantuan in every respect and helpful like all fat people. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: He is Gargantuan in every respect and helpful like all fat people. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Heinrich Zimmer Dear Professor Zimmer, 14 December 1936 First of all I want to thank you most heartily for your very friendly review of The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Secondly, I enclose letters of recommendation to various Americans. I give you these letters sealed, because they also contain personal matters. Prof. …

Carl Jung: It would most certainly provoke a National Socialist outburst of devastating sterility. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: It would most certainly provoke a National Socialist outburst of devastating sterility. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Oluf Brilel Dear Dr. Briiel, 12 December 1936 Your news is somewhat disappointing. Fortunately the notice about the Congress has not appeared in the Zentralblatt yet. Your proposition to postpone the Congress until September, on the other hand, is an inevitable issue. Concerning the date: 4-6 September, I should plead rather for a …

Carl Jung on the Arcane Substance and the Point - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the Arcane Substance and the Point - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on the Arcane Substance and the Point] THE PARADOXA 1. THE ARCANE SUBSTANCE AND THE POINT The tremendous role which the opposites and their union play in alchemy helps us to understand why the alchemists were so fond of paradoxes. In order to attain this union, they tried not only to visualize the …

If you are a Son of the Earth ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

If you are a Son of the Earth ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: div class='separator' style='clear Nature and Her Followers by Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder, c. 1615 I know that you would like to hear the tidings of he whom things have not lived, but who lived and fulfilled himself. For you are a son of the earth, sucked dry by the suckling earth, …

Carl Jung: Then you are in the flow, and for this you need the high heart of the warrior. . . - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Then you are in the flow, and for this you need the high heart of the warrior. . . - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Eugen Bohler Dear Professor Bohler, 23 February 1956 I have just got back from the Tessin and found your letter. I look forward to seeing you next Tuesday 28.II. about 8 o’clock. Your dreams are very interesting. As “contemporary” symbols of the opposites, the fishes have a tendency to devour each other …

Carl Jung: "Thought transference" is a synchronistic phenomenon. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: "Thought transference" is a synchronistic phenomenon. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Helene Kiener Dear Fraulein Kiener, 15 June 1955 “Thought transference” is a synchronistic phenomenon. “Self” is something that can be verified psychologically. We experience “symbols of the self” which cannot be distinguished from “God symbols.” I cannot prove that the self and God are identical, although in practice they appear so. Individuation …

Carl Jung: St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: II. THE METHOD In my writings and lectures I have always insisted that we must give up all preconceived opinions when it comes to the analysis and interpretation of the objective psyche, in other words the “unconscious.” We do not yet possess a general theory of dreams that would enable us to use a deductive …

Carl Jung and The Anima and Animus [Anthology] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung and The Anima and Animus [Anthology] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Though the effects of anima and animus can be made conscious, they themselves are factors transcending consciousness and beyond the reach of perception and volition. Hence they remain autonomous despite the integration of their contents, and for this reason they should be borne constantly in mind. This is extremely important from the therapeutic …

Carl Jung: I should like to put before you an individual series of such symbols in chronological order. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: I should like to put before you an individual series of such symbols in chronological order. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: I. THE MATERIAL The symbols of the process of individuation that appear in dreams are images of an archetypal nature which depict the centralizing process or the production of a new centre of personality. A general idea of this process may be got from my essay, “The Relations between the Ego nnd the Unconscious.” For …

Carl Jung on his unfriendly and unobjective "critics." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on his unfriendly and unobjective "critics." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Aniela Jaffe Dear Aniela, Bollingen, 6 April 1954 Best thanks for your excellent review = I have nothing to correct in it! After all the rubbish that gets delivered to my house on my work, it is such a pleasure to find something understanding and friendly for once. I often ask myself …

Carl Jung: The Gods Envy the Perfection of Man - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: The Gods Envy the Perfection of Man - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The one arose from the melting together of the two. He was born as a child from my own human soul, which had conceived him with resistance like a virgin. Thus it corresponds to the image that the ancients have given to us. But when the mother, my soul, was pregnant with the God, I …

Physical Illnesses and Dream Symbolism [Carl Jung] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Physical Illnesses and Dream Symbolism [Carl Jung] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: It is only in exceptional cases that somatic stimuli are the determining factor. Usually they coalesce completely with the symbolical expression of the unconscious dream content; in other words, they are used as a means of expression. Not infrequently the dreams show that there is a remarkable inner symbolical connection between an undoubted physical illness …

To Be What you are is the Bath of Rebirth - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

To Be What you are is the Bath of Rebirth - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The Bath of Diana by Clouet, Francois (1510-1572) To be that which you are is the bath of rebirth. In the depths,being is not an unconditional persistence but an endlessly slow growth. You think you are standing still like swamp water, but slowly you flow into the sea that covers the earth’s greatest deeps, and is so …

Carl Jung and The Anima and Animus [Anthology] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung and The Anima and Animus [Anthology] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Though the effects of anima and animus can be made conscious, they themselves are factors transcending consciousness and beyond the reach of perception and volition. Hence they remain autonomous despite the integration of their contents, and for this reason they should be borne constantly in mind. This is extremely important from the therapeutic …

Carl Jung: The Gods Envy the Perfection of Man - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: The Gods Envy the Perfection of Man - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The one arose from the melting together of the two. He was born as a child from my own human soul, which had conceived him with resistance like a virgin. Thus it corresponds to the image that the ancients have given to us. But when the mother, my soul, was pregnant with the God, I …

Carl Jung: A projection is a very tangible thing and can be created as a sort of projectile. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: A projection is a very tangible thing and can be created as a sort of projectile. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung: A projection is a very tangible thing and can be created as a sort of projectile.] Such things can happen: a projection is a very tangible thing, a sort of semi-substantial thing which forms a load as if it had real weight. It is exactly as the primitives understand it, a subtle body. …

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

Carl Jung on “Suffering.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Herr N., 28 April 1955 Your ideas bring you up against a general cultural problem which is infinitely complicated. What is true in one place is untrue in another. “Suffering is the swiftest steed that bears you to perfection,” and the contrary is also true. “Breaking in” can be discipline, and this …

Carl Jung to a mother whose son joined an Indian religious order... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung to a mother whose son joined an Indian religious order... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung to a mother whose son aged 24, joined an Indian religious order and changed his European name into an Indian one.] Anonymous Dear Frau N., 26 April 1955 I find your son’s decision very regrettable in the sense that it is hardly anything more than an evasion, though it is not …

Carl Jung on "Brotherly Love." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on "Brotherly Love." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: ro [Carl Jung on “Brotherly Love.”] Such roving about christeneth itself “brotherly love”; with these words hath there hitherto been the best lying and dissembling, and especially by those who have been burdensome to everyone. [Nietzsche’s Zarathustra] Those are the people who go about and tell everybody how much they love them or what they …

Carl Jung: "Even the saints cast a Shadow." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: "Even the saints cast a Shadow." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Fraulein Kiener, 14 May 1955 In the Christ symbol the conquest of evil is suggested by the descent into hell and the breaking open of its gates. But nobody has ever heard that the devil departed this life afterwards; on the contrary, the authentic New Testament view is that after the thousand-year …

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

Carl Jung on “Faust.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Karl Theens Dear Herr Theens, 25 April 1955 I would gladly comply with your kind invitation to contribute something to the literature on Faust were it not that my old age sets definite and, unfortunately, narrow limits to my working capacity. Faust II has been my companion all my life but it …

Carl Jung on Knowledge and Belief. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Knowledge and Belief. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Walter Robert Corti Dear Herr Corti, 2 May 1955 At last I have found a quiet moment in which to finish reading your Mythopoese and to append my answer. The reading has to be fresh in my mind so that I can react properly. As always in such cases, it does not …

The Four Functions of Consciousness as a Compass - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The Four Functions of Consciousness as a Compass - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: In this way we can orient ourselves with respect to the immediate world as completely as when we locate a place geographically by latitude and longitude. The four functions are somewhat like the four points of the compass; they are just as arbitrary and just as indispensable. Nothing prevents our shifting the cardinal points as …

Carl Jung's Dream Analysis Seminar Lecture IV 30 October 1929 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung's Dream Analysis Seminar Lecture IV 30 October 1929 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: LECTURE IV 30 October 1929 We will continue our dream. The two committees are at work now digging up material for the next seminar, so I will refrain from discussing the cross and the crescent symbolism because we shall hear about that later. We have already spoken of the cauldron, but we remained entirely within …

Hell has Levels~~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Hell has Levels~~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Everything odious and disgusting is your own particular Hell. How can it be otherwise? Every other Hell was at least worth seeing or full of fun. But that is never Hell. Your Hell is made up of all the things that you always ejected from your sanctuary with a curse and a kick of the foot. When you step …

God's Formation~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

God's Formation~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The child, that is, the image of the God’s formation, not only bore my human craving, but also enclosed all the primordial and elemental powers that the sons of the sun possess as an inalienable inheritance. The God needs all this for his genesis. But when he has been created and hastens away into unending space, we need the …

Dreams as another type of Reality. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Dreams as another type of Reality. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: As in our waking state, real people and things enter our field of vision, so the dream-images enter like another kind of reality into the field of consciousness of the dream-ego. We do not feel as if we were producing the dreams, it is rather as if the dreams came to us. …

Gerhard Adler "Dynamics of the Self" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Gerhard Adler "Dynamics of the Self" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dynamics of the Self by Gerhard Adler It has often been remarked that Jung himself was the best advertisement for his ideas, that he represented the most convincing example of an integrated and individuated personality. ~ Adler, Gerhard, Dynamics of the Self, Page 1 It is indeed not easy to grasp the full message of …

Carl Jung: With these words you have laid your finger on exactly what is typically Jewish. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: With these words you have laid your finger on exactly what is typically Jewish. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Gerhard Adler was born in Berlin and of German-Jewish descent and did the Editorial work on Dr. Jung’s Collected Works] To Gerhard Adler Dear Dr. Adler, 9 June 1934 Best thanks for your detailed letter/ the tenor of which I find completely acceptable. I have pointed out in several places in my article …

Genesis and Promethean Guilt [Carl Jung] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Genesis and Promethean Guilt [Carl Jung] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Genesis represents the act of becoming conscious as a taboo infringement, as though knowledge meant that a sacrosanct barrier had been impiously overstepped. I think that Genesis is right in so far as every step towards greater consciousness is a kind of Promethean guilt: through knowledge, the gods are as it were robbed of their …

Genesis and Promethean Guilt [Carl Jung] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Genesis and Promethean Guilt [Carl Jung] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Genesis represents the act of becoming conscious as a taboo infringement, as though knowledge meant that a sacrosanct barrier had been impiously overstepped. I think that Genesis is right in so far as every step towards greater consciousness is a kind of Promethean guilt: through knowledge, the gods are as it were robbed of their …

Carl Jung on a piece of Greek sculpture - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on a piece of Greek sculpture - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Ronald J. Horton Dear Mr. Horton, 22 April 1955 The chance of seeing and enjoying the exquisite beauty of this unique piece of Greek sculpture has been a boon I have to thank you for. It is indeed a difficult task to identify the head. I am no archaeologist, and I cannot …

Carl Jung on the Spirituality of the Tree - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the Spirituality of the Tree - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on the Spirituality of the Tree] Mrs. Baumann: I thought it was very interesting that in the prehistoric mythology of the island of Crete, of which practically nothing is known, there is another example of a world-tree. In a picture on a gold seal ring called the “Ring of Nestor,” the tree is …

Carl Jung and Symbols of Individuation - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung and Symbols of Individuation - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung and Symbols of Individuation] Similar representations occur in practical psychology: these symbols are repeated fairly often in the beginning of the individuation process. I will show you the original of an unconscious picture which I used to illustrate one of my Eranos lectures! The patient herself is represented as grown fast to the …

Carl Jung: Unfortunately I am unable to thank you for sending me your book. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Unfortunately I am unable to thank you for sending me your book. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Pater Raymond Hostie Dear Pater, 25 April 1955 Unfortunately I am unable to thank you for sending me your book. As you know through Father Bruno, you criticize me as though I were a philosopher. But you know very well that I am an empiricist whose concepts have-as such-no content, since they …

Carl Jung on The Tree of Life, World Tree, Tree of Evolution, Cosmic Tree, Soma Tree, The Human Spinal Column. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on The Tree of Life, World Tree, Tree of Evolution, Cosmic Tree, Soma Tree, The Human Spinal Column. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on The Tree of Life, World Tree, Tree of Evolution, Cosmic Tree, Soma Tree, The Human Spinal Column.] Prof. Jung: Here is a very valuable contribution from Mrs. Baumann, a photograph of Nestor’s ring, that famous intaglio with the representation of the world-tree. And here is a contribution from Mrs. Crowley about the …

God and Singleness ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

God and Singleness ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Solitude by Frederic Leighton We think that there is singleness within us, and communality outside us. Outside of us is the communal in relation to the external, while singleness refers to us. We are single if we are in ourselves, but communal in relation to what is outside us. But if we are outside of ourselves, then we are …

God and Singleness ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

God and Singleness ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Solitude by Frederic Leighton We think that there is singleness within us, and communality outside us. Outside of us is the communal in relation to the external, while singleness refers to us. We are single if we are in ourselves, but communal in relation to what is outside us. But if we are outside of ourselves, then we are …

Carl Jung on Maya and the “Great Illusion.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Maya and the “Great Illusion.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on Maya and the “Great Illusion.”] Now India has a very helpful idea in that respect. Their idea of the great illusion, Maya, is not mere foolishness. One might ask why the god should create the world when it is only his own illusion, but Maya has a purpose. You see, matter is …

Carl Jung on "Alchemy" "Alchemist" - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on "Alchemy" "Alchemist" - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on “Alchemy,” “Alchemist” – Anthology] But Mercurius is the divine winged Hermes manifest in matter, the god of revelation, lord of thought and sovereign psychopomp. ~Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, Page 292. Not for nothing did alchemy style itself an “art,” feeling—and rightly so—that it was concerned with creative processes that can be …

Dream Interpretation [Carl Jung] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Dream Interpretation [Carl Jung] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: On Dreams I have no theory about dreams, I do not know how dreams arise. And I am not at all sure that – my way of handling dreams even deserves the name of a “method.” I share all your prejudices against dream-interpretation as the quintessence of uncertainty and arbitrariness. On the other hand, I …

Incantations ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Incantations ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Nonphotographic representaton of the Merseburg Incantations manuscript (Merseburger Domstiftsbibliothek, Codex 136, f. 85r, 10th Cy.) [The Incantations by Carl Jung.] [It would be great if this could be put to the music of an Ancient chant.] Christmas has come. The God is in the egg.I have prepared a rug for my God, an expensive red …

Carl Jung: Masculine and Feminine in The Red Book - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Masculine and Feminine in The Red Book - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Marie-Denise Villers, Young Woman Drawing, 1801, reveals the feminine spirit In Greek mythology, Heracles is synonymous with Apollonian masculinity. What about masculinity? Do you know how much femininity man lacks for completeness? Do you know how much masculinity woman lacks for completeness. You seek the feminine in women and the masculine in men. And thus there …

God and Singleness ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

God and Singleness ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Solitude by Frederic Leighton We think that there is singleness within us, and communality outside us. Outside of us is the communal in relation to the external, while singleness refers to us. We are single if we are in ourselves, but communal in relation to what is outside us. But if we are outside of ourselves, then we are …

Carl Jung on Samadhi - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Samadhi - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on Samadhi] Samadhi is one of those terms which was used in the past in India, and is still used in the actual religious movements of the present time. But it is used with no very definite meaning. To think that these Indian concepts have a definite meaning is one of our Western …

Carl Jung: The vernal equinox is moving out of the sign of Pisces… - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: The vernal equinox is moving out of the sign of Pisces… - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Pater Lucas Menz, O.S. B . Dear Pater Lucas, 22 February 1955 I have read your draft with great interest. Considering the terrible time in which we are living, I am bound to agree. It reminds me of the beneficent work of the O.S.B. in those dark centuries when the culture of …

Carl Jung: The vernal equinox is moving out of the sign of Pisces… - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: The vernal equinox is moving out of the sign of Pisces… - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Pater Lucas Menz, O.S. B . Dear Pater Lucas, 22 February 1955 I have read your draft with great interest. Considering the terrible time in which we are living, I am bound to agree. It reminds me of the beneficent work of the O.S.B. in those dark centuries when the culture of …

Carl Jung on Purusha and Christ - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Purusha and Christ - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on Purusha and Christ] Prof Jung: You are quite right, he [Zarathustra] is not the Purusha of the Upanishads. The Purusha is also a world creator like Prajapati, and he is a collateral concept like the Atman. Of course one can say there is all the difference in the world between the concept …

An Interview with June Singer - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

An Interview with June Singer - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: June Singer Dr. Singer: This is the first time I’ve addressed myself to people on the Internet, save for a few good friends. I must admit I find it awesome. Matthew Clapp of the Jung Index, asked me to answer a few interview questions that would be sent in from readers of the JungNet and …

Carl Jung on the Group Experience and Personal Transformation - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the Group Experience and Personal Transformation - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: If any considerable group of persons are united and identified with one another by a particular frame of mind, the resultant transformation experience bears only a very remote resemblance to the experience of individual transformation. A group experience takes place on a lower level of consciousness than the experience of an individual. This is due …

Carl Jung on Rebirth - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Rebirth - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Rebirth is not a process that we can in any way observe. We can neither measure nor weigh nor photograph it. It is entirely beyond sense perception. . . . One speaks of rebirth; one professes rebirth; one is filled with rebirth. . . . We have to be content with its psychic reality. Carl …

Carl Jung on Thomistic Psychology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Thomistic Psychology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Sylvester Schoening Dear Mr. Schoening, 24 March 1955 Your question is difficult to answer, since Thomistic psychology is on a metaphysical basis, and the psychology of the unconscious on an empirical foundation. Through many talks with theologians, I have learnt that the greatest difficulty in discussing this matter consists in the difference of …

Carl Jung and the Symbolism of the Living Body - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung and the Symbolism of the Living Body - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung and the Symbolism of the Living Body] Now, what the living body represents is a great problem. Of course the historical symbolism, as far as we know it, refers to the animal. The life of the body is animal life. There is no difference in principle between the physiology of the monkey and …

Carl Jung on “becoming whole and Holy." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on “becoming whole and Holy." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Pater Lucas Menz Dear Pater Lucas, 28 March 1955 Many thanks for your kind and illuminating letter. It affords me an invaluable glimpse into the process of becoming whole and holy. On the way back through the history of mankind we integrate much that belongs to us and, deep down, also something …

Essence of Hell ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Essence of Hell ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: What do you think of the essence of Hell? Hell is when the depths come to you with all that you no longer are or are not yet capable of Hell is when you can no longer attain what you could& attain. Hell is when you must think and feel and do everything that you know …

Some Carl Jung Quotations XLVIII - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Some Carl Jung Quotations XLVIII - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Man must recognize his complicity in the act of evil. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, LN 291. You begin to have a presentiment of the whole when you embrace your opposite principle, since the whole belongs to both principles, which grow from one root. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, LN 248 No one has my …

Carl Jung's Dream Analysis Seminars Lecture II 16 October 1929 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung's Dream Analysis Seminars Lecture II 16 October 1929 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: LECTURE II 16 October 1929 We will continue our dream of last week. Are there any questions? If too many people are afraid to ask questions, it produces a static atmosphere. If you all join in, your co-operation creates a community of feeling, and this esprit de corps is exceedingly important. An inhibited atmosphere is …

Carl Jung on Mescaline - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Mescaline - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on Mescaline] To A. M. Hubbard Dear Sir, 15 February 1955 Thank you for your kind invitation to contribute to your mescalin scheme. Although I have never taken the drug myself nor given it to another individual, I have at least devoted 40 years of my life to the study of …

Carl Jung on the Individual and Society - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the Individual and Society - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Hans A . Illing Dear Dr. Illing, 10 February 1955 I give the adaptation of the individual to society its full due. But I still stand up for the inalienable rights of the individual since alone is the carrier of life and is gravely threatened by the social leveling process today. Even …

Carl Jung on the Scarab and the Snake - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the Scarab and the Snake - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on the Scarab and the Snake] Prof Jung: We talked last week of that shepherd who was in danger of being penetrated by the black snake, and I find here a contribution: the dream of a young Swiss girl thirteen years old who also dreamt of a snake, but she behaved quite differently …

Aniela Jaffe on C.G. Jung and Alchemy - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Aniela Jaffe on C.G. Jung and Alchemy - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Alchemy Jung’s method of research was pre-eminently historical.   It consisted essentially in comparing his ideas and intuitions, and the insights he had gained from the empirical material provided by his patients, with the historical evidence. This method enabled him to view his own psychic experiences and psychological discoveries objectively and to establish their general …

Carl Jung on “Our Uroboros.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on “Our Uroboros.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on “Our Uroboros.”] Prof Jung: That is the hero again. The snake always means resurrection on account of shedding its skin. According to an African myth, there was no death on earth originally; death came in by mistake. People could shed their skins every year and so they were always new, rejuvenated, until …

Carl Jung's Dream Analysis Seminar Lecture III 23 October 1929 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung's Dream Analysis Seminar Lecture III 23 October 1929 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: LECTURE III 23 October 1929 We have two questions to deal with. The first one asks whether the mechanic represents the function of intuition or feeling. Sometimes it is of a certain importance to know what function is represented by a figure, but in this case it is not so, because the dream is not …

Carl Jung: Zen is a true goldmine for the needs of the Western "psychologist." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Zen is a true goldmine for the needs of the Western "psychologist." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Daisetz T. Suzuki Dear Professor Suzuki, 22 September 1933 Being an admirer of your former work on Zen Buddhism, it has been a very great pleasure indeed to receive such a precious gift as your Essays in Zen Buddhism, Second Series. Zen is a true goldmine for the needs of the Western …

Carl Jung: Zen is a true goldmine for the needs of the Western "psychologist." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Zen is a true goldmine for the needs of the Western "psychologist." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Daisetz T. Suzuki Dear Professor Suzuki, 22 September 1933 Being an admirer of your former work on Zen Buddhism, it has been a very great pleasure indeed to receive such a precious gift as your Essays in Zen Buddhism, Second Series. Zen is a true goldmine for the needs of the Western …

What the ancients did for their dead! - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

What the ancients did for their dead! - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Red Book Illumination 107. What the ancients did for their dead! You seem to you can absolve yourself from the care of the dead, and from the work that they so greatly demand, since what is dead is past. You excuse yourself with your disbelief in the immortality of the soul. Do you think that …

Carl Jung's Dream Analysis Lecture I 9 October 1929 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung's Dream Analysis Lecture I 9 October 1929 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: LECTURE I 9 October 1929 Ladies and Gentlemen: I am going to continue the series of dreams that we worked with last year, with the purpose of demonstrating their continuity, and the development which shows itself in the unfolding of the symbolism in the patient’s unconscious. Each one seems to ·be a psychological entity, the …

Carl Jung and moving into Aquarius, and the Sibylline Books - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung and moving into Aquarius, and the Sibylline Books - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Adolf Keller Dear friend, 25 February 1955 It was very kind of you to take the time and trouble to react at such length to the article in Time. our interpretation of my strange-looking visage is excellent. The photographer, who bored me excruciatingly with his many exposures, must have caught me in …

Carl Jung on Power and Inferiority Complexes - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Power and Inferiority Complexes - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on Power and Inferiority Complexes] Hearken now unto my word, ye wisest ones! Test it seriously,whether I have crept into the heart oflife itself, and into the rootsof its heart!Wherever I found a living thing, there found I Will to Power;and even in the will of the servant found I the will to …

Carl Jung: Occasionally there are even cases that can be cured. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Occasionally there are even cases that can be cured. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To E. Haesele Dear Frau Dr. Haesele, 23 December 1932 With reference to your question I must tell you that once definite outbreaks of insanity have occurred there is always a permanent lowering of the threshold of consciousness which facilitates the repetition of these outbreaks. Consequently, the results of psychic treatment are always …

Dream Symbolism of the Snake - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Dream Symbolism of the Snake - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “Perhaps the commonest dream symbol of transcendence is the snake, as represented by the therapeutic symbol of the Roman god of medicine Aesclepius, which has survived to modern times as a sign of the medical profession. This was originally a nonpoisonous tree snake; as we see it, coiled around the staff of the healing god, …

The Soul as a Nazareth... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

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

Carl Jung on The Charioteer Within... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on The Charioteer Within... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “Within each one of us there is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from how we see ourselves. When, therefore, we find ourselves in a difficult …

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

Carl Jung on "Genius" - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: • Any system of philosophy, no matter how abstract, represents in means and purpose nothing more than an extremely cleverly developed combination of original nature sounds. Hence arises the desire of a Schopenhauer or a Nietzsche for recognition and understanding, and the despair and bitterness of their loneliness. One might expect, perhaps, that a …

Carl Jung on “Speaking in Tongues.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on “Speaking in Tongues.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To E . V. Tenney Dear Dr. Tenney, 23 February 1955 It was a great pleasure to receive a letter from you. I often wondered how you were faring and how you digested all the difficult stuff you have devoured in Zurich. I see from your letter that the digestive process has made …

Carl Jung on Archetypes - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Archetypes - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The formulation of the archetypes is described as an empirically derived concept, like that of the atom; it is a concept based not only on medical evidence but on observations of mythical, religious and literary phenomena, these archetypes are considered to be primordial images, spontaneous products of the psyche which do not reflect any physical …

Carl Jung on "Perfection" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on "Perfection" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The realization of the self, which would logically follow from recognition of its supremacy, leads to a fundamental conflict, to a real suspension between opposites (reminiscent of the crucified Christ hanging between two thieves), and to an approximate state of wholeness that lacks perfection. . . . The individual may strive after perfection . . …

Christ as Logos is the same as Naas... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Christ as Logos is the same as Naas... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Christ as Logos is the same as Naas, the serpent of the Nous among the Ophites… The serpent is an excellent symbol for the two aspects of the unconscious: its cold and ruthless instinctuality, and its Sophia quality or natural wisdom, which is embodied in the archetypes. The Logos-nature of Christ represented by the chthonic …

Marie Louise Von Franz and "The Cat: A Tale of Feminine Redemption - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Marie Louise Von Franz and "The Cat: A Tale of Feminine Redemption - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Marie Louise Von Franz and The Cat: A Tale of Feminine Redemption – When we first approach the unconscious, it is a hard nut for us to crack. We can’t penetrate it, we don’t understand our dreams and so on; we have to bite through to understand dreams and we are repelled until we get …

Carl Jung on The Shadow - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on The Shadow - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The Shadow Unfortunately there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance …

Carl Jung on Tarantula Madness - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Tarantula Madness - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on Tarantula Madness] Revenge is in thy soul: wherever thou bitest, there ariseth black scab;with revenge, thy poison maketh the soul giddy! [Nietzsche’s Zarathustra] This of course refers to the tarantula dance, the madness caused by the tarantula. You see, that idea suggests something one very often encounters when people approach their inferior …

The Earth has a Soul: C.G. Jung on Nature, Technology & Modern Life - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The Earth has a Soul: C.G. Jung on Nature, Technology & Modern Life - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “Matter in the wrong place is dirt. People get dirty through too much civilization. Whenever we touch nature, we get clean. You may not associate such bold, earthy sentiments with Swiss psychiatrist C.G. Jung, but he was, in fact, deeply concerned over the loss of connection with nature. He considered natural life to be the …

Carl Jung comparing Intuitive and Sensation Types - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung comparing Intuitive and Sensation Types - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung comparing Intuitive and Sensation Types] Prof Jung: Here is a question by Miss Welsh: “Speaking of Nietzsche’s intuitive way, you said, ‘When an intuitive escapes from a situation because it threatens to become a prison, he only does so apparently, for the unfinished thing follows him and clings to him and may lame …

Carl Jung: In the shadow we are exactly like everybody; in the night all cats are grey-there is no difference.] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: In the shadow we are exactly like everybody; in the night all cats are grey-there is no difference.] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung: In the shadow we are exactly like everybody; in the night all cats are grey-there is no difference.] Exactly, it would break his bubble. Being identical with Zarathustra, who is also Wotan, he is half divine and above humanity. Inasmuch as Zarathustra is a spirit, he deserves to be above humanity, but if …

Carl Jung to Upton Sinclair - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung to Upton Sinclair - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Mr. Sinclair, 20 January 1955 Thank you ever so much for your awfully nice letter. You ought not to think that I shall be able to write you always such long letters in the future; it all depends on the button you push. It happens that your recent writings have touched off …

Kundalini and the Chakras - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Kundalini and the Chakras - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “Sakti-Kundalini or Devi-Kundalini is a goddess. She is the female principle, the self manifesting power which surrounds the gem at the center, the gold seed, the jewel, the pearl, the egg. The Kundalini serpent is, however, also Devi-Kundalini, a chain of glittering lights, the ‘world bewilderer’.” The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga, Carl Jung. Jung’s Comments …

Carl Jung on Kundalini - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Kundalini - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: More on Kundalini… Soter… the Serpent of the Gnostics.. “To activate the unconscious means to awaken the divine, the devi, Kundalini – to begin the development of the suprapersonal within the individual in order to kindle the light of the gods. Kundalini, which is to be awakened in the sleeping Muladhara world, is the suprapersonal, …

Carl Jung on Serpents and Dragons in Dreams - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Serpents and Dragons in Dreams - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Regarding “Snake-dreams usually occur, therefore, when the conscious mind is deviating from its instinctual basis.” Jung said,”I have no theory” about dreams, and was adamant that each dream needed to be looked at afresh. Nevertheless, he still made some sweeping statements: “More especially the threat to one’s inmost self from dragons and serpents points to …

Carl Jung on the “Whirlwind,”John the Baptist, Christ, Paul, John and Gnostics - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the “Whirlwind,”John the Baptist, Christ, Paul, John and Gnostics - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on the “Whirlwind,”John the Baptist, Christ, Paul, John and Gnostics] Prof. Jung: The Brausewind, then, is this catastrophic wind that breaks into social existence. Whenever the opposites meet, whenever a cold layer of air touches a warm layer of air there is most probably movement, there will be a cyclone, or a wandering …