Carl Jung: Intuition is a dangerous gift, tempting us over and over again into groundless speculation. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Intuition is a dangerous gift, tempting us over and over again into groundless speculation. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Ignaz. Tauber Dear Colleague, 22 May 1959 Dr. Jacobsohn’s criticism is certainly a fatal blow but was to be foreseen. I am sorry I was the bird of ill omen who had to convey to you this negative experience. Even without Jacobsohn I could have told you that you were making an …

I took on the Nature of a Serpent ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

I took on the Nature of a Serpent ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The devil is the sum of the darkness of human nature. He who lives in the light strives toward being the imageof God; he who lives in the dark strives toward being the image of the devil. Because I wanted to live in the light, the sun went out   or me when I touched the depths. It …

Carl Jung: ...they don't know yet whether I should be condemned as a heretic or depreciated as a mystic. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: ...they don't know yet whether I should be condemned as a heretic or depreciated as a mystic. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Father Victor White, O.P. Dear Father White, 26 September 1945 It was a great pleasure and surprise to me to receive your interesting articles about my psychology. Owing to the fact that I celebrated my 70th birthday this summer I have not yet emerged from the floods of correspondence that have invaded …

When the flame of your greed consumes you... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

When the flame of your greed consumes you... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: When the flame of your greed consumes you, and nothing remains of you but ash, so nothing of you was steadfast. Yet the flame in which you consumed yourself has illuminated many. But if you flee from your fire full of fear, you scorch your fellow men, and the burning torment of your greed cannot …

One Creates Inner Freedom only through the Symbol... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

One Creates Inner Freedom only through the Symbol... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The mouth utters the word, the sign, and the symbol. If the word is a sign, it means nothing. But if the word is a symbol, it means everything. When the way enters death and we are surrounded by rot and horror, the way rises in the darkness and leaves the mouth as the saving …

Carl Jung on why he didn't protest against the injustice done to Tibet by the Chinese - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on why he didn't protest against the injustice done to Tibet by the Chinese - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Jean Vontobel-Ruosch Dear Herr Vontobel-Ruosch, 28 April 1959 You are quite right: I also ask myself why I do not use the means that appear to be at my disposal to do my bit in combatting the atrocities that are going on in the world. I can give no rational reasons for …

Carl Jung: My Tower Grew - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: My Tower Grew - 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 tower. Just as a tower …

Carl Jung: The nature of the redeeming symbol is that of a child, - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: The nature of the redeeming symbol is that of a child, - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. (Isaiah 9:6)] (Footnote 3) Footnote 3: In 1921, Jung cited this passage, noting: “The …

Barbara Hannah "Reaping the Harvest 1945–1952" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Barbara Hannah "Reaping the Harvest  1945–1952" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Reaping the Harvest  1945–1952 The year of convalescence, after Jung’s severe illness in 1944, when he was strictly rationed as to the amount of time he might work, expired almost simultaneously with the end of the war in Europe. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 207 Jung then entered on the most …

Carl Jung: Foreword to Quispel: “Tragic Christianity” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Foreword to Quispel: “Tragic Christianity” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The author of this essay has asked me to start off his book with a few introductory words. Although I am not a philologist, I gladly accede to this request because Dr. Quispel has devoted particular attention to a field of work which is familiar also to me from the psychological standpoint. Gnosticism is still …

Carl Jung Foreword to Allenby: “A Psychological Study of the Origins of Monotheism” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Foreword to Allenby: “A Psychological Study of the Origins of Monotheism” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: It can no longer be doubted today that meaningful connections are discoverable in dreams and other spontaneous manifestations of the unconscious. This raises the question of the origin of unconscious contents. Are they genuine creations of the unconscious psyche, or thoughts that were originally conscious but subsequently became unconscious for one reason or another? The …

Carl Jung: Concerning “Answer to Job” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Concerning “Answer to Job” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: This is not a “scientific” book but a personal confrontation with the traditional Christian world view, occasioned by the impact of the new dogma of the Assumption. It echoes the reflections of a physician and theological layman, who had to find the answers to many questions on religious matters and was thus compelled to wrestle …

Carl Jung on the origin of his concept of the "Archetype." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the origin of his concept of the "Archetype." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Joseph F. Rychlak Dear Mr. Rychlak, 27 April 1959 The philosophical influence that has prevailed in my education dates from Plato, Kant, Schopenhauer, Ed.v.Hartmann and Nietzsche. These names at least characterize my main studies in philosophy. Aristotle’s point of view had never particularly appealed to me; nor Hegel, who in my very …

Apart from Elijah and Salome I found the serpent as a third principle. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Apart from Elijah and Salome I found the serpent as a third principle. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Apart from Elijah and Salome I found the serpent as a third principle. It is a stranger to both principles although it is associated with both. The serpent taught me the unconditional difference in essence between the two principles in me. If I look across from forethinking to pleasure, I first see the deterrent poisonous …

Carl Jung: I have often asked myself where my books go and how they are received. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: I have often asked myself where my books go and how they are received. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Werner Bruecher Dear Mr. Bruecher, 12 April 1959 Your kind letter has come as a great surprise to me, as it contains a message from a group of people of whose existence I had not an inkling. It gives me the enjoyable thought that there may be similar groups in other remote …

Carl Jung: Man, you have even forgotten that you too are an animal. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Man, you have even forgotten that you too are an animal. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: No one rises above himself who has not• turned his most dangerous weapon against himself. One who wants to rise above himself shall climb down and hoist himself onto himself and lug himself to the place of sacrifice. But what must happen to a man until he realizes that outer visible success, that he …

If the Creator were conscious of Himself...~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

If the Creator were conscious of Himself...~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: God creating the cosmos (Bible Moralisee, French, 13th century) If the Creator were conscious of Himself, He would not need conscious creatures; nor is it probable that the extremely indirect methods of creation, which squander millions of years upon the development of countless species and creatures, are the outcome of purposeful intention. Natural history tells …

Carl Jung, Plotinus, Greek Myth, Depth Psychology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung, Plotinus, Greek Myth, Depth Psychology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: In attempting to understand Dr. Jung’s work and the findings of Depth Psychology it is important to recognize as many of the Ancients did the Psychological aspects of the Gods and Goddesses: Many times it has happened: Lifted out of the body into myself; becoming external to all other things and self-encentered; beholding a marvelous …

This is the golden fabric in which the shadow of God lives - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

This is the golden fabric in which the shadow of God lives - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung’s Red Book Illustration 115 with a Caption that says: “This is the golden fabric in which the shadow of God lives.” “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.” …

Carl Jung on Science - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Science - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung on Science: Why is psychology the youngest of the empirical sciences? Why have we not long since discovered the unconscious and raised up its treasure-house of eternal images? Simply because we had a religious formula for everything psychic — and one that is far more beautiful and comprehensive than immediate experience. Though the …

Carl Jung: I do my own cooking and chop my own wood and raise my own potatoes. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: I do my own cooking and chop my own wood and raise my own potatoes. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Father Victor White Dear Father White,                                                               13 April 1946 I was very pleased with your letter and I hasten to answer it at …

Carl Jung: Why should he learn about the unconscious, the mother of the future?! - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Why should he learn about the unconscious, the mother of the future?! - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Cary F. Baynes Dear Cary, X.’s shyness in touching upon the psychological problem is a fact well known to me. I have seen it in many cases. You rarely find a similar attitude in women though. It is just as if women knew less of its implications, as they know psychology chiefly …

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

Carl Jung on “Homesickness." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Sandor Torok Dear Sir, 29 April 1959 Your question about homesickness is one that I can answer only from the standpoint of an empirical psychologist. Homesickness in this sense is a special phenomenon, possibly a symptom, that has two aspects: either one is still clinging on to the memory of the original …

Joseph Campbell and Precession of the Equinoxes - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Joseph Campbell and Precession of the Equinoxes - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Joseph Campbell and Precession of the Equinoxes …The number of the years it takes called “the precession of the equinoxes”. It takes about 25,920 years to complete the cycle of the zodiac. Divide 25,920 years by 60 and you get 432. Some years ago a friend gave me a book, Cooper’s Aerobics that told how …

Carl Jung and We are now nearing that great change which may be expected when the spring-point enters Aquarius. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung and We are now nearing that great change which may be expected when the spring-point enters Aquarius. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung and We are now nearing that great change which may be expected when the spring-point enters Aquarius.] In 1958 Jung explained further: “I am fully aware of the risk I am taking in proposing to communicate my views concerning certain contemporary events, which seem to me important, to those patient enough to hear …

Carl Jung Foreword to Froboese-Thiele: "Dreams—a Source of Religious Experience?" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Foreword to Froboese-Thiele: "Dreams—a Source of Religious Experience?" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: This book has the merit of being the first to investigate how the unconscious of Protestants behaves when it has to compensate an intensely religious attitude. The author examines this question with the help of case material she has collected in her practical work. She has evidently had the good fortune to come upon some …

Emma Jung on Women and the Self - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Emma Jung on Women and the Self - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “To discriminate between oneself and the animus, and sharply to limit its sphere of power, is extraordinarily important; only by doing so is it possible to free oneself from the fateful consequences of identifying with the animus and being possessed by it. Hand in hand with the discrimination goes the growth of consciousness and …

Carl Jung: Your Hut is a Temple - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Your Hut is a Temple - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Jupiter and Mercury in the house of Philemon and Baucis, Adam Elsheimer, c1608, Dresden. But what mystery are you intimating to me with your name, Oh Philemon Truly you are the lover who once took in the Gods as they wandered the earth when everyone else refused them lodging. You are the one who unsuspectingly gave hospitality …

Carl Jung: Your Hut is a Temple - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Your Hut is a Temple - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Jupiter and Mercury in the house of Philemon and Baucis, Adam Elsheimer, c1608, Dresden. But what mystery are you intimating to me with your name, Oh Philemon Truly you are the lover who once took in the Gods as they wandered the earth when everyone else refused them lodging. You are the one who unsuspectingly gave hospitality …

The Way of the Cross [Paragraph 3] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The Way of the Cross [Paragraph 3] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: He who goes to himself climbs down. Pathetic and ridiculous forms appeared to the greatest prophet who came before this time, and these were the forms of his own essence. He did not accept them, but exorcised them before others. Ultimately; however, he was forced to celebrate a Last Supper with his own poverty and …

Carl Jung Foreword to Schmid-Guisan: “Tag Und Nacht” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Foreword to Schmid-Guisan: “Tag Und Nacht” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The atmosphere of this book is only too familiar to me.   On reading the manuscript, I found it difficult at first to extricate myself from the toils of day-to-day psychotherapeutic practice—until I succeeded in viewing the book against its historical background. It is indeed something of a literary orphan, seeming to have no affinities …

Carl Jung: “On the Tale of the Otter” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: “On the Tale of the Otter”  - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: in writing a few introductory words to this publication, one of his last, I am discharging a duty to my dead friend, Oskar A. H. Schmitz. I am not a literary man, nor am I competent to pass judgment on aesthetic questions. Moreover, the literary value of “The Tale of the Otter” is of little …

An old secret fire burns between us... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

An old secret fire burns between us... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: From the Red Book: “An old secret fire burns between us, giving sparse light and ample warmth.The primordial fire that conquers every necessity shall burn again, sincethe night of the world is wide and cold, and the need is great.” ————- From -Memories, Dreams, Reflections- I also recall from this period (seven to nine) that …

Carl Jung's Visions Seminar Lecture I 15 October 1930 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung's Visions Seminar Lecture I 15 October 1930 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: LECTURE I 15 October 1930 Dr. Jung: Ladies and Gentlemen: My plan was to go on with the series of dreams that we have been dealing with these last two years. But I have just given a course of German lectures about unconscious pictures, and as a consequence I have been asked to repeat that …

Carl Jung Dream Analysis Seminar Lecture VIII 25 June 1930 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Dream Analysis Seminar Lecture VIII 25 June 1930 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: LECTURE VIII 25 June 1930 Here is a question from Dr. Howells: “Did the dreamer have any feeling of disintegration when he had this dream in which his anima escaped?” One would assume that he would have a certain feeling about such an agitated dream, that he would feel it in the daytime even, but …

Carl Jung Foreword to Kankeleit: "The Unconscious as Seedbed of the Creative," subtitled "Testimonials from Scholars, Poets, and Artists." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Foreword to Kankeleit: "The Unconscious as Seedbed of the Creative," subtitled "Testimonials from Scholars, Poets, and Artists." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dr Otto Kankeleit has given me the manuscript of his book and has asked me to write a foreword. It is not a scientific study of a theoretical nature, but a descriptive survey of the multitudinous phenomena and problems which beset the practising psychotherapist in his daily work. It is a kaleidoscopic assortment of …

Carl Jung: “Is there a True Bilingualism” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: “Is there a True Bilingualism” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: You have asked me a question which I cannot answer precisely. I would not be able to define what you understand by “bilingualism.” There are certainly people living abroad who have become so used to a new language that they not only think but even dream in the idiom of the country. I, personally, have …

Carl Jung: “Reviews of Books by Heyer: The Organism of the Mind” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: “Reviews of Books by Heyer: The Organism of the Mind” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The author of this book has performed the grateful service of giving a comprehensive account of the chaos—one can hardly say less—that reigns in the field of psychotherapy. I know of no book that grasps the essential problems of modern therapy and its conflicting views in just this knowledgeable, unprejudiced, and wholly impartial manner. Unfortunately, most …

Carl Jung on "Drugs, LSD, Mescalin" - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on "Drugs, LSD, Mescalin" - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Question: Do you occasionally resort to stimulants of any kind (alcohol, morphine, hashish, etc.)?Answer: Oh no ! Never ! A new idea is intoxicating enough. Carl Jung, CW 18, Page 787 Although I have never taken the drug [Mescalin] myself nor given it to another individual, I have at least devoted 40 years of my …

Carl Jung: This is the Jewel that must not get lost. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: This is the Jewel that must not get lost. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Anonymous Dear Frau N., 26 January 1959 I gather from your letter that you have a desire and a plan to do something. This is very understandable and also very useful inasmuch as you learn most of all about yourself. You say you would “like to get the archetype of the daughter to …

Jung Stripped Bare: By His Biographers Even. Introduction: biography, fiction, history - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Jung Stripped Bare: By His Biographers Even. Introduction: biography, fiction, history - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Introduction: biography, fiction, history “Nothing would have prevented it,” said Jung. “I mean—imagine! A man tries to kill himself with a spoon. Sounds like a fair desperationto me. I had nothing to do with it. “You curried favour with him. The minute you held the jacket for him he knew he had you in the …

Carl Jung: ..this centre has to be created although it has always been there. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: ..this centre has to be created although it has always been there. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Gertrud Rohde-Heussner Dear Frau Rohde-Heussner, 11 February 1959 Best thanks for your kind letter. I was very interested to hear that you can make something of my way of looking at things and thinking about them. The difference between the two kinds of thinking struck me a long time ago, and for …

Carl Jung: Community gives us warmth, singleness gives us light. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Community gives us warmth, singleness gives us light. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung on Striking a Balance between “Community” and “Singleness” “Man is weak, and community is therefore indispensable. If your community is not under the sign of the mother, it is under the sign of the Phallos. Absence of community is suffering and sickness. Community in everything is dismemberment and dissolution. “Differentiation leads to singleness. Singleness is opposed to …

Carl Jung: The unconscious as a "multiple consciousness." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: The unconscious as a "multiple consciousness." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Helene Kiener Dear Fraulein Kiener, 13 August 1949 In my paper “Der Geist der Psychologie” (Eranos Jahrbuch 1946) I have shown, with the help of historical material, that the collective unconscious was compared symbolically with the starry sky in particular by Paracelsus. I have devoted a whole chapter to the unconscious as …

Carl Jung Foreword to Mehlich: "Fichte's Psychology and Its Relation to the Present." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Foreword to Mehlich: "Fichte's Psychology and Its Relation to the Present." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Although I owe not a little to philosophy, and have benefited by the rigorous discipline of its methods of thought, I nevertheless feel in its presence that holy dread which is inborn in every observer of facts. The unending profusion of concepts spawning yet other concepts, rolling along like a great flood in the history …

Carl Jung: Gerard De Nerval - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Gerard De Nerval - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Gerard de Nerval (pseudonym of Gerard Labrunie, 1808-1853) was a the Poet and translator of Goethe and Heine. He is best known by his posthumously published novel Amelia, in which he relates the history of his anima and at the same time of his psychosis. The dream at the beginning, of a vast edifice and …

Carl Jung: Foreword to Fierz-David: “The Dream of Poliphilo” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Foreword to Fierz-David: “The Dream of Poliphilo”  - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: It must be twenty-five years since Francesco Colonna’s Hypnerotomachia Poliphili first came my way in the French translation published by Beroalde de Verville in 1600. Later, in the Morgan Library, New York, I saw and admired the first Italian edition with its superb woodcuts. I set about reading the book, but soon got lost in …

Carl Jung: Foreword to Jacobi: “Paracelsus: Selected Writings” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Foreword to Jacobi: “Paracelsus: Selected Writings”  - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The author has asked me for some introductory words to the     English edition of her book on Paracelsus. I am more than willing to comply with this request, for Paracelsus, an almost legendary figure in our time, was a preoccupation of mine when I was trying to understand alchemy, especially its connection with natural philosophy. …

Carl Jung: Address at the Presentation of the Jung Codex - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung:  Address at the Presentation of the Jung Codex   - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Mr. President, Mr. Minister, viri magnifici, Ladies and Gentlemen! it gives me much pleasure to accept this precious gift in the name of our Institute. For this I thank you, and also for the surprising and undeserved honour you have done me in baptising the Codex with my name. I would like to express my …

Barbara Hannah: The Mysterium Coniunctionis 1952–1955 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Barbara Hannah: The Mysterium Coniunctionis 1952–1955 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The Mysterium Coniunctionis 1952–1955 After Aion, Answer to Job, and the long article on synchronicity had been written, the decks were clear for Jung to devote himself to his opus magnum, his goal ever since he had finished Psychology and Alchemy. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 224 It was only after …

Carl Jung: I cannot tell you how deeply I have been moved by the appalling news of your son's premature death - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: I cannot tell you how deeply I have been moved by the appalling news of your son's premature death - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Anonymous Dear Mrs. N., 5 March 1959 I cannot tell you how deeply I have been moved by the appalling news of your son’s premature death . . . . Yes, life is a mysterious affair. Sometimes it starts with a profound no to its own existence,and its only goal seems to be …

Carl Jung: We have some discussions over here with physicists concerning this matter. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: We have some discussions over here with physicists concerning this matter. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To J. B. Rhine Dear Dr. Rhine, 1 April 1948 I’ve read your book with the greatest interest and I thank you very much for sending me more than one copy. People read it a lot over here and I have recommended it to several physicists interested in psychological and parapsychological matters. I …

Carl Jung: I myself am deeply convinced of the basic analogy between physical and psychological discoveries. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: I myself am deeply convinced of the basic analogy between physical and psychological discoveries. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To R.F.C. Hull Dear Hull, 27 December 1958 Your suggestion to translate the subtitle of the Mysterium Coniunctionis as “An Inquiry into the Fission and Fusion of Psychic Opposites in Alchemy” is indeed very clever. It is audacious and in a way profoundly right. This idea is so creative that I cannot assume …

Carl Jung: Foreword “Depth Psychology and Self-Knowledge” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Foreword “Depth Psychology and Self-Knowledge” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Is depth psychology a new way to self-knowledge?   Yes, depth psychology must be termed a new way, because in all the methods practised up to now no account was taken of the existence of the unconscious.   Thus a new factor entered our field of vision, which has seriously complicated and fundamentally altered the …

Carl Jung: .. I was the figure, himself deep in meditation, who is produced by a meditating yogi. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: .. I was the figure, himself deep in meditation, who is produced by a meditating yogi. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To H.A.F. Dear Dr. F., 16 January 1959 Many thanks for kindly sending me your very interesting dream. I found it especially worthy of note that you obviously felt this dream to be highly significant right from the start. And so indeed it is, in so far as it pictures a phenomenon that …

Carl Jung: .. I was the figure, himself deep in meditation, who is produced by a meditating yogi. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: .. I was the figure, himself deep in meditation, who is produced by a meditating yogi. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To H.A.F. Dear Dr. F., 16 January 1959 Many thanks for kindly sending me your very interesting dream. I found it especially worthy of note that you obviously felt this dream to be highly significant right from the start. And so indeed it is, in so far as it pictures a phenomenon that …

Carl Jung:.. Most people cannot reach their destinies anyway without a streak of craziness.. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung:.. Most people cannot reach their destinies anyway without a streak of craziness.. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Anonymous Dear Herr N., 26 January 1959 Best thanks for telling me about the progress of your opus. It does indeed, as you say, make considerable demands on our constitution. It goes to the very limit, but no further. Most people cannot reach their destinies anyway without a streak of craziness, and so …

Carl Jung: ...the concept of the self cannot be described as a summum bonum. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: ...the concept of the self cannot be described as a summum bonum. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Armin Kesser Dear Herr Kesser, 18 June 1949 I would like to thank you very much for your amiable review of my book Symbolik des Geistes. You have succeeded in handling this difficult material in a way that gives the reader a real impression of my ideas. I would only like to …

Carl Jung on "Religious Belief" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on "Religious Belief" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Questions to Jung and His Answers:   Question 1. You say that religion is psychically healthy and often for the latter part of life essential, but is it not psychically healthy only if the religious person believes that his religion is true? Do you think that in your natural wish to keep to the realm …

Carl Jung on a Referendum to give women the right to Vote. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on a Referendum to give women the right to Vote. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Claire Scheuter Dear Fraulein Scheuter, 10 January 1959 Your question regarding the unconscious reactions which might influence the referendum on February 1st is complicated and not easy to answer in a few words. As a basis for prediction we really need statistics showing the frequency and intensity of male resistance to greater …

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

Carl Jung on “Satori.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To James Kirsch Dear Colleague, 10 December 1958 Best thanks for your kind and interesting letter of December 2nd. The satori experience of your friend, Dr. K., is a typical mandala vision. If there are people in the East who claim to have had an imageless experience, you must always remember that the …

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

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

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. …

Darkness of Magic ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Darkness of Magic ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The Darkness of Magic ~Carl Jung From the flooding darkness the son of the earth had brought, my soul gave me ancient things that pointed to the future. She gave me three things: The misery of war, the darkness of magic, and the gift of religion. If you are clever, you will understand that these …

Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: At the beginning it was not easy for me to assign Freud the proper place in my life, or to take the right attitude toward him. When I became acquainted with his work I was planning an academic career, and was about to complete a paper that was intended to advance me at the university. …

Carl Jung: Bohme's 40 Questions Concerning the Soul, 1647. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Bohme's 40 Questions Concerning the Soul, 1647. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Karl Schmid Dear Professor Schmid, 8 December 1958 Having been prevented by various circumstances I am thanking you only today for your book Hochmut und Angsfl now that I have perused its contents. I am still under the impact of the treasures displayed in it, which are indeed so vast that an …

A great work of art is like a dream... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

A great work of art is like a dream... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “A great work of art is like a dream; for all its apparent obviousness it does not explain itself and is never unequivocal.” (There is nothing like being never unequivocal.)(Interesting that The Dream was the last painting of Rousseau…) “In this way the work of the poet comes to meet the spiritual need of the …

Life is like a plant that lives on its rhizome. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Life is like a plant that lives on its rhizome. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “Life is like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer then it withers away,an ephemeral apparition. The blossom passes, the rhizome remains.” (Jung, MDR)

Where Love Reigns... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Where Love Reigns... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: ” Logically the opposite of love is hate, and of Eros, Phobos, (fear); but psychologically it is the will to power. Where love reigns, there is no will to power; and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.The one is but the shadow of the the other.” ~Carl Jung, CW7: Two Essays …

Marie-Louise von Franz... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Marie-Louise von Franz... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Marie-Louise von Franz was born in Munich of Austrian parents, but spent most of her life in Switzerland. Even in primary school she had a reputation for a formidable intellect. She was, for example, unwilling to accept the tenets of the religious education taught at her school. She so exasperated the priest who was teaching …

The creative process has feminine quality... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The creative process has feminine quality... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “It makes no difference whether the poet knows that his work is begotten, grows and matures with him, or whether he supposes that by taking thought he produces it out of the void. His opinion of the matter does not change the fact that his own work outgrows him as a child its mother. The …

Carl Jung's Near Death Experience - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung's Near Death Experience - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung’s near-death experience In a hospital in Switzerland in 1944, the world-renowned psychiatrist Carl G. Jung, had a heart attack and then a near-death experience. His vivid encounter with the light, plus the intensely meaningful insights led Jung to conclude that his experience came from something real and eternal. Jung’s experience is unique in …

I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy in the name of Christ — all these are undoubtedly great virtues. What I do unto the least of …

Learning to cherish and emphasize feminine values... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Learning to cherish and emphasize feminine values... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: From Emma Jung’s “Animus and Anima, Two Essays” (p. 42): For women working with the animus…. “Learning to cherish and emphasize feminine values is the primary condition of our holding our own against the masculine principle which is mighty in a double sense – both within the psyche and without. If it attains sole mastery, …

Carl Jung: “On Hallucination” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: “On Hallucination” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Hallucination is not merely a pathological phenomenon but one that also occurs in the sphere of the normal.  The history of prophecy as well as experiences among primitives show that psychic contents not infrequently come to consciousness in hallucinatory form. In this respect only the form is worthy of note, not the function, which …

Carl Jung: Meister Eckhart is about the first where the self begins to play a noticeable role. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Meister Eckhart is about the first where the self begins to play a noticeable role. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Herbert E . Bowman Dear Dr. Bowman, 18 June 1958 Thank you ever so much for your kind and refreshing letter. Believe me: there are rather few of this kind in my mail-bag. As to your question “Why has the Self gone undiscovered?” I must tell you that my American publisher had the …

Carl Jung: For me life was something that had to be lived and not talked about. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: For me life was something that had to be lived and not talked about. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Kurt Wolff Dear Mr. Wolff, 17 June 1958 Best thanks for your letter of June 3rd. Your wish that I should expatiate at greater length on psychotherapyseems to me unfulfillable because I have already written a whole lot on this subject from the scientific standpoint and none of it i s suitable for a …

Carl Jung: Address on the Occasion of the Founding of the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich, 24 April 1948 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Address on the Occasion of the Founding of the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich, 24 April 1948 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: It is a particular pleasure and satisfaction for me to have the privilege of speaking to you on this memorable day of the founding of an Institute for Complex Psychology. I am honoured that you have come here for the purpose of establishing this institute of research which is designed to carry on the work …

Carl Jung: Rage in The Red Book - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Rage in The Red Book - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Rage, Tacuinum Sanitatis casanatensis (14th century). Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth it). the winefat? I have trodden the wine-press alone and no one is with me. I have trodden myself down in my anger, and trampled upon myself in my fury. Hence my blood has spattered my clothes, and I have …

Barbara Hannah Jung: His life and His Work "Back to the Rhizome 1960 - 1961 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

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

Carl Jung "The Symbolic Life" CW 18 Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung "The Symbolic Life" CW 18 Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung:  CW 18 “The Symbolic Life”   The individual is obliged by the collective demands to purchase his individuation at the cost of an equivalent work for the benefit of society. ~Carl Jung, CW 18, Page 452.   Individuation and collectivity are a pair of opposites, two divergent destinies. They are related to one …

Carl Jung Foreword: “The Inner World of the Child” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Foreword: “The Inner World of the Child” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Frances G. Wickes’ book, which first appeared in America in 1938 is now available in a German translation. It is the fruit of a long and industrious life, uncommonly rich in experience of people of all classes and ages. Anyone who wishes to form a picture of the inner life of the psyche and broaden …

Carl Jung: Foreword to Van Heldingen: “Pictures of the unconscious” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Foreword to Van Heldingen:  “Pictures of the unconscious” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung: Foreword to Van Heldingen:  “Pictures of the unconscious” Dr. R. J. van Helsdingen has asked me to write a foreword to his book. I am happy to comply with his request for a particular reason: the case that is discussed and commented on was one that I treated many years ago, as can …

Carl Jung: “Configurations of the Unconscious” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: “Configurations of the Unconscious” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: In so far as poetry is one of those psychic activities that give shape to the contents of the unconscious, it seems to me not unfitting to open this volume with an essay which is concerned with a number of fundamental questions affecting the poet and his work. This discussion is followed by a lecture …

Carl Jung Dream Analysis Seminar Lecture V 4 June 1930 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Dream Analysis Seminar Lecture V 4 June 1930 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: LECTURE V 4 June 1930 We got as far with our dream as the meaning of the names Michel and Jalaubout, and now we come to the next point, the arrangement of this new enterprise, this branch business. You remember the dreamer said that he was explaining to an employee that the firm would be …

Carl Jung: “Of course you can dream of the sun!” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: “Of course you can dream of the sun!” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To K. Neukirch Dear Frau Neukirch, 13 June 1958 Of course you can dream of the sun! Here is an example: a lady I was treating dreamt that she saw a sunrise. She saw the sun rising up, half hidden behind the roof of my house. Above it, as though written in the …

Erich Neumann on Carl Jung's "Answer to Job" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Erich Neumann on Carl Jung's "Answer to Job" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: It (Answer to Job) is a book that moved me deeply. I find it the most beautiful and profound of your books, whereby I mean to say that it is actually not a ‘book’ any more. In a certain sense, it is an argument with God, an entreaty similar to Abraham’s when he remonstrated …

Carl Jung on Zen Buddhism - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Zen Buddhism - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on Zen Buddhism] For these and many other reasons a direct transplantation of Zen to our Western conditions is neither commendable nor even possible. All the same, the psychotherapist who is seriously concerned with the question of the aim of his therapy cannot remain unmoved when he sees the end towards which thisEastern …

Web of Words ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Web of Words ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: So if I fall prey to the web of words, I fall prey to the greatest and the smallest. I am at the mercy of the sea, of the inchoate waves that are forever changing place. Their essence is movement and movement is their order. He who strives against waves is exposed to the arbitrary. The work of men …

Carl Jung: It is good therefore, as a rule, to keep at least one foot upon terra firma. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: It is good therefore, as a rule, to keep at least one foot upon terra firma. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Edward Thornton Dear Thornton, 20 July 1958 The question you ask me is-I am afraid-beyond my competence. It is a question of fate in which you should not be influenced by any arbitrary outer influence. As a rule I am all for walking in two worlds at once since we are gifted …

Carl Jung on "Persona and Shadow" - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on "Persona and Shadow" - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Persona The persona is a complicated system of relations between individual consciousness and society, fittingly enough a kind of mask, designed on the one hand to make a definite impression upon others, and, on the other, to conceal the true nature of the individual. “The Relations between the Ego and the Unconscious” (1928). In CW …

Carl Jung - Taking Inner Life Seriously - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung - Taking Inner Life Seriously - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung – Taking Inner Life Seriously Carl Jung, Part 1: Takinginner life seriously Achieving the right balancebetween what Jung called theego and self is central to histheory of personalitydevelopment Mark Vernon – The Guardian If you have ever thought of yourself as anintrovert or extrovert; if you’ve ever deployedthe notions of the archetypal or collectiveunconscious; if you’ve ever …

Carl Jung: It is therefore a comfort to see that not a few seeds have fallen on fruitful soil. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: It is therefore a comfort to see that not a few seeds have fallen on fruitful soil. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Gustav Graber Dear Colleague, 14 July 1950 Your special issue for my birthday together with your kind foreword, was a great ·surprise and joy to me. I am particularly impressed by the large number of contributors and their excellent contributions, and I appreciate the pains the editor has taken to bring together …

Carl Jung: It is therefore a comfort to see that not a few seeds have fallen on fruitful soil. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: It is therefore a comfort to see that not a few seeds have fallen on fruitful soil. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Gustav Graber Dear Colleague, 14 July 1950 Your special issue for my birthday together with your kind foreword, was a great ·surprise and joy to me. I am particularly impressed by the large number of contributors and their excellent contributions, and I appreciate the pains the editor has taken to bring together …

Carl Jung: I would not go so far as to deny the possibility that a medium can transmit a ghostly communication, - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: I would not go so far as to deny the possibility that a medium can transmit a ghostly communication, - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Edward J . Steiner Dear Dr. Steiner, 5 June 1958 No doubt it would be an excellent scheme to have a machine for recording the voices of spirits. Unfortunately there are no cases on record where spirits had the good grace to present themselves as test persons. Whatever else we can produce …

Carl Jung: I have no relation whatever to modern art unless I understand a picture. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: I have no relation whatever to modern art unless I understand a picture. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Ceri Richards Dear Sir, 21 May 1958 Mrs. F. has kindly brought me your picture, for which I owe you many thanks. It came as a great surprise to me. I must confess, however, that I have no relation whatever to modern art unless I understand a picture. This is occasionally the …

Carl Jung on the Death and Disappearance of God - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the Death and Disappearance of God - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: I only know – and here I am expressing what countless other people know – that the present is a time of God’s death and disappearance. The myth says he was not to be found where his body was laid. ‘Body’ means the outward, visible form, the erstwhile but ephemeral setting for the highest …

Carl Jung: We know as little of a supreme being as of matter. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: We know as little of a supreme being as of matter. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To the Rev. Morton T. Kelsey Dear Mr. Kelsey, 3 May 1958 Thank you very much for your kind letter. 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 Job. I can’t help feeling that I am beneath …

Aniela Jaffe - Was Jung a Mystic "Quotations" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Aniela Jaffe - Was Jung a Mystic "Quotations" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The concept of the unconscious posits nothing, it designates only my unknowing, …The unconscious is a piece of Nature our mind cannot comprehend. ~Carl Jung, MDR, Page 305 It is the psyche which, by the divine creative power inherent in it, makes the metaphysical assertion … not only is it the condition of all …

Carl Jung and synchronistic phenomena - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung and synchronistic phenomena - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To H . Rossteutscher Dear Herr Rossteutscher, 20 May 1958 My remarks about the concept of “reciprocal effect” as a causalistic premise naturally do not imply that the reciprocal effect and/or causality is absolutely out of the question in the realm of parapsychological phenomena. The explanation depends entirely on the experience itself. It …

Carl Jung: the archetype it is a psychoid content... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: the archetype it is a psychoid content... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To H. Rossteutscher Dear Herr Rossteutscher, 3 May 1958 Your reflections are eminently philosophical. I myself do not belong to this fraternity, being a mere empiricist who is content with makeshift models. But I do expect such a model to take adequate account of the nature of the phenomenon in question. One characteristic …

Carl Jung on the Guatamala UFO - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the Guatamala UFO - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To James Kirsch Dear Kirsch, 29 April 1958 Thank you for your letter and the additional information about the Guatemala Ufo! I am glad at least to have made an understatement and not the contrary. (Here I notice that I am quite needlessly answering you in English, due to the fact that by now …

Carl Jung on old Mexican symbolism - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on old Mexican symbolism - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Cottie A . Burland Dear Mr. Burland, 7 April 1958 I am most obliged to you for sending me your interesting account of the Fejervary-Mayer time-mandala. As I am unfortunately a complete layman in rebus Mexicanis I can only admire your insight into old Mexican symbolism. My general and non-specific knowledge of …

Carl Jung: Indeed, I have devoted a book, Paracelsica to the most important of his [Paracelsus] ideas. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Indeed, I have devoted a book, Paracelsica to the most important of his [Paracelsus] ideas. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Charles Lichtenthaeler Dear Colleague, 7 November 1950 Although the curious personality of Paracelsus is certainly not without interest for the psychologist, it is his ideas that interest psychology especially. Indeed, I have devoted a book, Paracelsica (Rascher, Zurich, 1942) to the most important of his ideas. Among them, the idea of the …

Carl Jung on the Horoscope and Causality - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the Horoscope and Causality - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Hans Bender Dear Colleague, 10 April 1958 Very many thanks for so thoughtfully sending me your report on Ufo observation. I shall read it soon and will then return it to you. It is indeed very difficult to explain the astrological phenomenon. I am not in the least disposed to an either-or …

Carl Jung: Trance conditions are certainly very interesting and I know a good deal about them though never enough. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Trance conditions are certainly very interesting and I know a good deal about them though never enough. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Alice Raphael Eckstein Dear Mrs. Eckstein, 16 September 1930 Thank you very much for your long and interesting letter. It is surely a very interesting problem, the question of the relation between brain and consciousness. Everyday experience tells us that consciousness and brain are in an indispensable connection. Destruction of the latter results in …

Foreword to Jung: “Phenomenes Occultes” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Foreword to Jung: “Phenomenes Occultes” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The essays collected together in this little volume were written over a period of thirty years, the first in 1902 and the last in 1932.   The reason why I am bringing them out together is that all three are concerned with certain borderline problems of the human psyche, the question of the soul’s …

Carl Jung: Foreword to Adler: “Entdeckung Der Seele” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Foreword to Adler: “Entdeckung Der Seele” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: This book is a systematic account of the three different approaches now current in psychotherapy: Freud’s, Alfred Adler’s, and my own.   Drawing on his wide professional knowledge, the author has carefully elaborated the principal viewpoints underlying each approach, and thus gives the reader, who may have neither the time nor the opportunity to study …

Carl Jung: Trance conditions are certainly very interesting and I know a good deal about them though never enough. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Trance conditions are certainly very interesting and I know a good deal about them though never enough. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Alice Raphael Eckstein Dear Mrs. Eckstein, 16 September 1930 Thank you very much for your long and interesting letter. It is surely a very interesting problem, the question of the relation between brain and consciousness. Everyday experience tells us that consciousness and brain are in an indispensable connection. Destruction of the latter results in …

Carl Jung: “The Hypothesis of the Collective Unconscious” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: “The Hypothesis of the Collective Unconscious”  - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Indications of the concept of a collective psyche are to be found in Leibniz’s theory of “petites perceptions,” also in Kant’s anthropology.   In Schelling the “eternally unconscious” is the absolute ground of consciousness.   Despite different terminology Hegel’s view is similar.   G. Carus was the first to base a developed philosophical system on …

Carl Jung on Prof. Pauli’s collaboration with Heisenberg - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Prof. Pauli’s collaboration with Heisenberg - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To F. Fischer Dear Herr Fischer, 23 March 1958 In reply to your letter of March 18th I can only tell you that though Prof. Pauli has informed me of his collaboration with Heisenberg he did not-for understandable reasons-give me the details of this collaboration. Unfortunately I am unable to express an opinion …

Carl Jung on the Shadow of one’s National Character - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the Shadow of one’s National Character - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To F.V. Tischendorf Dear Colleague, 19 April 1958 You have posed a rather ticklish question for where “national character” is concerned the most unlikely people become sensitive and sometimes even go to the length of asserting that no such thing exists. Just as a person refuses to recognize his own shadow side, so, …

Carl Jung: A physical fact never proves the existence and reality of the spirit. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: A physical fact never proves the existence and reality of the spirit. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Father Victor White Dear Victor, 25 November 1950 I thank you very much indeed for kindly sending me The Life of the Spirit. I have read your article with the greatest attention and interest. Well, you have succeeded in putting the petra scandali very much in evidence. Concerning the universale, you know, …

Carl Jung: Foreword to Harding: “Woman’s Mysteries” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung:  Foreword to Harding: “Woman’s Mysteries” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Esther Harding, the author of this book, is a physician and specialist in the treatment of psychogenic illness.   She is a former pupil of mine who has endeavoured not only to understand the modern psyche but also, as the present book shows, to explore its historical background.   Preoccupation with historical subjects may at …

Death gives me durability and solidity - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Death gives me durability and solidity - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The devil is the sum of the darkness of human nature. He who lives in the light strives toward being the imageof God; he who lives in the dark strives toward being the image of the devil. Because I wanted to live in the light, the sun went out for me when I touched the depths. It was …

Carl Jung on memories and his own subjectivity - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on memories and his own subjectivity - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Cary F. Baynes Dear Cary, 24 January 1958 Thank you very much for your kind and beautiful letter. As I am continuously in doubt about my subjective material it has given me a bit more confidence in my actual work: it consists in the most peculiar and to me unexpected fact that …

Carl Jung: "Psychological types are not static." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: "Psychological types are not static." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Psychological types are not static. Dr. Jung advocated the transformation and “becoming” of one’s personality and not the wearing of a 4-letter “type” as a lifelong badge of honor wherein a person simply slowly petrifies in to the fossilization of their personality. Notice the transformation in process below.] Question: Have you concluded what …

Carl Jung: "Psychological types are not static." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: "Psychological types are not static." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Psychological types are not static. Dr. Jung advocated the transformation and “becoming” of one’s personality and not the wearing of a 4-letter “type” as a lifelong badge of honor wherein a person simply slowly petrifies in to the fossilization of their personality. Notice the transformation in process below.] Question: Have you concluded what …

Carl Jung: Foreword to Spier: “The Hands of Children” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Foreword to Spier: “The Hands of Children” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung: Foreword to Spier: “The Hands of Children” Chirology is an art which dates back to very ancient times. The ancient physicians never hesitated to make use of such auxiliary techniques as chiromancy and astrology for diagnostic purposes, as is shown, for instance, by the little book written by Dr. Goclenius, who lived at …

Carl Jung: For me every book is a kind of fate,.. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: For me every book is a kind of fate,.. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Kurt Wolff Dear Mr. Wolff, 1 February 1958 Best thanks for your kind letter. Frau Jaffe has told me that she has written to you that I am engaged in setting down the memories of my early childhood. It is indeed true that while I was recounting my memories to her I …

Carl Jung: Chance is an event, too, and if it didn't exist causality would be axiomatic. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Chance is an event, too, and if it didn't exist causality would be axiomatic. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Hans Bender Dear Colleague, 12 February 1958 Your prefatory note on synchronicity is perfectly adequate up to the point where you speak of the “synchronistic effect that was sought.” This effect was, if I may be permitted the remark, not sought at all but found, and it was found probably because the …

Carl Jung: It is generally overlooked that the psyche cannot of necessity be based only on the instinct of sexuality, - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: It is generally overlooked that the psyche cannot of necessity be based only on the instinct of sexuality, - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Ernesto A. C. Volkening Dear Colleague, 19 August 1950 Many thanks for your kind wishes and also for your offprint. Unfortunately I am not on an intimate footing with Spanish, so I am having a report made of your essay. Your argument with the Freudian school leaves ample room for discussion, for …

Carl Jung. Emma Jung and Toni Wolff - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung. Emma Jung and Toni Wolff - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “A point of support” Carl Jung’s letter to Freud decribing Tone Wolff, a former patient, lyric poet and later analyst: “A new discovery…a remarkable intellect with an excellent feeling for philosophy and religion.” ~Freud/Jung Letters p. 4 40 Emma Jung   “I shall always be grateful to Toni for doing for my husband what …

The Afternoon of Life must have Significance ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The Afternoon of Life must have Significance ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning. The significance of the morning undoubtedly lies in the development of the individual, our entrenchment in the outer world, the propagation of our kind, and the care of our children. This is …

Does the World stand on the verge of Spiritual Rebirth? ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Does the World stand on the verge of Spiritual Rebirth? ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: This is what theologians for several centuries have been crying for; what many of them have professed to see through the fog of doubts, disillusion and despair, like a star glowing in the high heavens. I am not a theologian; I am a doctor, a psychologist. But as a doctor, I have had experience with …

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

My soul you-are you there? - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: When I beheld the vision of the flood in October of the year 1913, it happened at a time that was significant for me as a man. At that time, in the fortieth year of my life, I had achieved everything that I had wished for myself I had achieved honor, power, wealth,knowledge, and every …

Are Psychological Types Inherited or Learned? - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Are Psychological Types Inherited or Learned? - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “There is, finally, a third group, and here it is hard to say whether the motivation comes chiefly from within or without. This group is the most numerous and includes the less differentiated normal man” (Jung, 1971. Jung, C. G. (1971). Psychological types. In W. McGuire (Ed.) The collected works of C. G. Jung (Vol. …

Carl Jung Dream Analysis Seminar Lecture III 21 May 1930 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Dream Analysis Seminar Lecture III 21 May 1930 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: LECTURE III 21 May 1930 We will continue our discussion of the dream. Do you remember where we left off, Dr. Draper? Dr. Draper: We were talking about the participation mystique, that cross-transference. Dr. Jung: That was not quite it. You asked something very awkward why those two children were dead. Dr. Deady: Miss Wolff …

The Life of the Solitary - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The Life of the Solitary - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The life of the solitary would be cold were it not for the immense sun, which makes the air and rocks glow. The sun and its eternal splendor replace for the solitary his own life warmth. H is heart longs for the sun. II e wanders to the lands of the sun. He dreams …

Delightful tidings: Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Delightful tidings: Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: First page of the Gospel of Mark in Armenian, by Sargis Pitsak, 14th century. Then he said: “Dear Ammonius, I have delightful tidings for you: God has become flesh in his son and has brought us all salvation.” “”What are you saying,” I called, “you probably mean Osiris, who shall appear in the mortal body? …

[Carl Jung: Our Christian theology is obviously not based "on the total religious experience."] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

[Carl Jung: Our Christian theology is obviously not based "on the total religious experience."] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To the Rev. H. L . Philp 10March1958 Dear Mr. Philp, I am bewildered by your questions. It is surely obvious to everybody why I am concerned with theology: I am asked a hundred theological questions by my patients, anxious to get an answer they were unable to obtain from their priest or …

We are the instruments of Cosmogonic Love.... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

We are the instruments of Cosmogonic Love.... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “Here is the greatest and the smallest, the remotest and the nearest, the highest and the lowest, and we cannot discuss one side of it without discussing the other. No language is adequate to this paradox. Whatever one can say, no words express the whole. To speak of partial aspects is always too much …

This is the Mother-Love... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

This is the Mother-Love... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “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 homecoming, shelter, and the long silence from which everything begins and in which everything ends.” From Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious: The over-development of the maternal …

Carl Jung: You must bear with my peculiar mental state. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: You must bear with my peculiar mental state. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear N., 9 January 1958 You must bear with my peculiar mental state. These days my thoughts were caught in a circumambulation of an entirely new proportion to me, namely an order from within to write up my earliest recollections. This command made necessary a new attitude of mind, consisting in an acceptance of a …

Carl Jung: Thus on New Year's Eve I had a great dream about my wife - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Thus on New Year's Eve I had a great dream about my wife - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Aniela Jaffe Dear Aniela, 4 January 1958 Hearty thanks for the News Letter and best wishes for the New Year! I am glad you have done your best for X. It really is a problem: Why the suffering? Why the torment of dying? Why does anything good have such difficulty in appearing? …

As a young boy, Carl Jung failed.......Drawing - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

As a young boy, Carl Jung failed.......Drawing - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Many admire Dr. Jung’s Illuminations in The Red Book but did you know that as a young boy Dr. Jung failed……………Drawing.?!!!] Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. Other subjects I found easy; and as, thanks to my good visual memory, I contrived for a long while to swindle my way through mathematics, …

Orbis Pictus is the earliest book Dr. Jung had a memory of seeing as a child - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Orbis Pictus is the earliest book Dr. Jung had a memory of seeing as a child - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Orbis Pictus is the earliest book Dr. Jung had a memory of seeing] Soon after I was six my father began giving me Latin lessons, and I also went to school. I did not mind school; it was easy for me, since I was always ahead of the others and had learned to read before …

As a result of the murder, the woman was plunged into unbearable loneliness. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

As a result of the murder, the woman was plunged into unbearable loneliness. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: In my practice I was constantly impressed by the way the human psyche reacts to a crime committed unconsciously. After all, that young woman was initially not aware that she had killed her child. And yet she had fallen into a condition that appeared to be the expression of extreme consciousness of guilt. I once …

Carl Jung on why he would not write an Autobiography - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on why he would not write an Autobiography - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Gustav Steiner Dear friend, 30 December 1957 Your assumption that I already have more than enough to occupy me is only too true. I drown in floods of paper. You are quite right. When we are old, we are drawn back, both from within and from without, to memories of youth. Once …

Carl Jung "Visions" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung "Visions" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: For C. G. Jung, the beautiful and gifted 28-year-old Christiana Morgan was an inspirational and confirming force whose path in self-analysis paralleled his own quest for self-knowledge. By teaching Morgan the trance-like technique of active imagination, Jung launched her on a pilgrimage of archetypal encounters in a quest for psychological integration–encounters she recorded in the …

Carl Jung and the most essential causes and conditions of dream processes. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung and the most essential causes and conditions of dream processes. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung and the most essential causes and conditions of dream processes.] Dream processes follow from several causes and conditions. There are about five different possible sources: 1. They can stem from somatic sources: bodily perceptions, states of illness, or uncomfortable body postures. They can be bodily phenomena that, for their part, are caused themselves …

Carl Jung: While I was there I sketched every morning in a notebook a small circular drawing, a mandala - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: While I was there I sketched every morning in a notebook a small circular drawing, a mandala - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: I had painted the first mandala in 1916 after writing the Septem Sermones; naturally I had not, then, understood it. In 1918-19 I was in CMteau d’Oex as Commandant de la Region Anglaise des Internes de Guerre. While I was there I sketched every morning in a notebook a small circular drawing, a mandala, which …

Carl Jung: While I was there I sketched every morning in a notebook a small circular drawing, a mandala - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: While I was there I sketched every morning in a notebook a small circular drawing, a mandala - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: I had painted the first mandala in 1916 after writing the Septem Sermones; naturally I had not, then, understood it. In 1918-19 I was in CMteau d’Oex as Commandant de la Region Anglaise des Internes de Guerre. While I was there I sketched every morning in a notebook a small circular drawing, a mandala, which …

The blind creative Libido is transformed and reborn a God.... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The blind creative Libido is transformed and reborn a God.... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: On February 29, 1919, Jung wrote a letter to Joan Corrie and commented on the Sermones, with particular reference to the last one: “The primordial creator of the world, the blind creative libido, becomes transformed in man through individuation & out of this process, which is like pregnancy, arises a divine child, a reborn God, …

The blind creative Libido is transformed and reborn a God.... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The blind creative Libido is transformed and reborn a God.... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: On February 29, 1919, Jung wrote a letter to Joan Corrie and commented on the Sermones, with particular reference to the last one: “The primordial creator of the world, the blind creative libido, becomes transformed in man through individuation & out of this process, which is like pregnancy, arises a divine child, a reborn God, …

Carl Jung's Preface to "The Discourses of the Buddha" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung's Preface to "The Discourses of the Buddha" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung’s Preface “On the Discourses of the Buddha”   It was neither the history of religion nor the study of philosophy that first drew me to the world of Buddhist thought, but my professional interests as a doctor. My task was the treatment of psychic suffering, and it was this that impelled me …

Carl Jung Dream Analysis Seminar Lecture II 14 May 1930 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Dream Analysis Seminar Lecture II 14 May 1930 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: LECTURE II 14 May 1930 Here are questions from Mrs. Sawyer and Mrs. Crowley. I should like to settle Mrs. Sawyer’s question first because it is more general. She says: “You mention two mandalas, one Christian and one Egyptian, in which three functions are pictured with the heads of beasts and one function with a …

Carl Jung on his contribution to Mathematics - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on his contribution to Mathematics - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Philip Wylie Dear Mr. Wylie, 22 December 1957 Despite your protestation I will write to you if only to tell you how grateful I am for your kind letter. I have got so much human disregard that I began to understand-finally-that it was a just punishment for my own faults in the …

Dr. Jung answers questions on UFO’s - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Dr. Jung answers questions on UFO’s - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Charles B . Harnett Dear Sir, 12 December 1957 Your interest in the hitherto unquenchable lore of Ufos meets with my full approval. The story is a most fascinating mental symptom of our time-if anything. I answer your questions1 in the following way: I do not believe and do not disbelieve in …

Carl Jung on the several possibilities of giving a meaning to a dream. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the several possibilities of giving a meaning to a dream. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on the several possibilities of giving a meaning to a dream.] The dream is no unequivocal phenomenon. There are several possibilities of giving a meaning to a dream. I would like to suggest to you four definitions, which are more or less an extract of the various meanings I have come across that …

Carl Jung: I am watching the setting sun. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: I am watching the setting sun. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To T. Yagisawa Dear Sir, 24 December 1957 Thank you ever so much for your kind letter. You are the first representative of the Japanese nation from whom I hear that he has read my books. So your letter is a memorable fact in my life. It shows how slow mental travelling is: …

Carl Jung: There can be no doubt that Dr. X.'s statements are projections of his "Jewish" anima - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: There can be no doubt that Dr. X.'s statements are projections of his "Jewish" anima - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Jolande Jacobi Dear Dr. Jacobi, 31 December 1941 I am sorry to be answering your letter only now. Everything has got in arrears because all sorts of things have gone wrong. Also the postal service here is very slow. There can be no doubt that Dr. X.’s statements are projections of his …

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

Carl Jung on “Primitive Consciousness.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Marie Ramondt Dear Frau Ramondt, 10 March 1950 While thanking you for kindly sending me your offprint I must apologize for the delay in answering your letter. I had to get the paper read by somebody else first since my knowledge of Dutch is not sufficiently fluent. If I understand you correctly, …

Carl Jung: "If I were an Indian I would definitely be a Buddhist." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: "If I were an Indian I would definitely be a Buddhist." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Georg Krauskopf Dear Herr Krauskopf, 31 December 1949 Your book Die Heilslehre des Buddha has arrived safely. I can perfectly understand your preference for Buddhism. It is something magnificent. I have visited the holy places of Buddhism in India and was profoundly impressed by them, quite apart from my reading of Buddhist literature. If …

Carl Jung: "Blake's picture is very interesting." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: "Blake's picture is very interesting." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Piloo Nanavutty Dear Misss Nanavutty, 11 November 1948 I’m sorry to be so late in answering your kind letter of October 19th. As you know I’m old and no more able to take care of my correspondence as I should. There is no objection against your reading my volumes on Zarathustra. They have nothing …

Carl Jung: Well, at the moment, thank God, I have no new work in view. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Well, at the moment, thank God, I have no new work in view. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Martin Flinker Dear Herr Flinker, 17 October 1957 You have been kind enough to ask me what I am working on now and what questions and problems concern me most. Well, at the moment, thank God, I have no new work in view. The works I completed this year have cost me …

Carl Jung: " I am not quarrelsome but combative by nature and I cannot conceal from you my secret pleasure." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: " I am not quarrelsome but combative by nature and I cannot conceal from you my secret pleasure." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Erich Neumann Dear Colleague, December 1948 Please forgive me for writing to you by hand, but I can concentrate my thoughts better that way. The MS of Myst. Coniunct. is still not in travel worthy form, also the last chapter has not yet been written. But there are various MSS which are more or …

Carl Jung: Christ as an Archetype - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Christ as an Archetype - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The oldest known icon of Christ Pantocrator – Saint Catherine’s Monastery. The two different facial expressions on either side emphasize Christ’s dual nature as both divine and human. 226 The Trinity and its inner life process appear as a closed circle, a self-contained divine drama in which man plays, most, a passive part. It seizes …

Carl Jung: “Your spiritual situation in India,….” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: “Your spiritual situation in India,….” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Sir, August 1957 I have looked in your interesting little book Yoga-the Way of Self-Fulfilment. I also have read your letter with attention. Your spiritual situation in India, where I have been nearly 20 years ago, before she got home rule, is practically the same as it is with us, although our …

Carl Jung: Real poets create out of an inner vision - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Real poets create out of an inner vision - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Attila Faj Dear Doctor Faj: September 1957 M y best thanks for your kindness in sending me your article on the Madach question in Osservatore letterario and the German abstract “Word and Truth” in the Monatsschrift fur Religion und Kultur. I do not know Madach’s work “The Tragedy of Man,” and your …

Carl Jung on “concentration of attention” and “devotion.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on “concentration of attention” and “devotion.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To A. Gerstner-Hirzel Dear Herr Gerstner-Hirzel, September 1957 Unfortunately it is impossible for me to answer your questions in a few words; the problem is too complicated. First of all I must emphasize that patterns of this kind always seem to occur where meditation and other such exercises are practised. Psychologically, these can …

Carl Jung: The archetype is ageless and ever present. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: The archetype is ageless and ever present. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To John Trinick Dear Mr. Trinick, 1 October 1957 First of all I must ask your forgiveness for having caused this long delay of my reaction. My plan was to study your MS1 in my summer vacation with the necessary leisure. But the god of chance had another idea and crammed any amount …

Carl Jung: ...it is the role of the individual that especially concerns me. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: ...it is the role of the individual that especially concerns me. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung: Well, at the moment, thank God, I have no new work in view.] To Martin Flinker Dear Herr Flinker, 17 October 1957 You have been kind enough to ask me what I am working on now and what questions and problems concern me most. Well, at the moment, thank God, I …

Carl Jung: ...it is the role of the individual that especially concerns me. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: ...it is the role of the individual that especially concerns me. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung: Well, at the moment, thank God, I have no new work in view.] To Martin Flinker Dear Herr Flinker, 17 October 1957 You have been kind enough to ask me what I am working on now and what questions and problems concern me most. Well, at the moment, thank God, I …

Carl Jung: You should not imagine me enthroned above world events on snow-covered peaks. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: You should not imagine me enthroned above world events on snow-covered peaks. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Erich Neumann Dear Colleague, 19 December 1938 Please don’t worry about having written me such a long letter. I would have liked to know long ago what you are doing. You should not imagine me enthroned above world events on snow-covered peaks. I am right in the thick of it and every …

Carl Jung on Dreams - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Dreams - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung: Occasionally the dreams of others, helped to shape, revise, or confirm my views on a life after death] Not only my own dreams, but also occasionally the dreams of others, helped to shape, revise, or confirm my views on a life after death.I attach particular importance to a dream which a pupil of …

Carl Jung: I am dependent on God's verdict, not he on mine. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: I am dependent on God's verdict, not he on mine. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Aniela Jaffe Dear Aniela, Bollingen, 9 July 1957 Unlike me, you torment yourself with the ethical problem. I am tormented by it. It is a problem that cannot be caught in any formula, twist and turn it as I may; for what we are dealing with here is the living will of …

Carl Jung: Forethinking is the procreative - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Forethinking is the procreative - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: In the moment of your bewilderment, follow your forethinking and not your blind desire, since forethinking leads you to the difficulties that should always come first. They come nevertheless.If you look for a light, you fall first into an even deeper darkness. In this darkness you find a light with a weak. reddish flame that gives only a …

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 …

Carl Jung: I am no anti-Semite. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: I am no anti-Semite. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Abraham Aaron Roback Dear Sir, [Bailey Island, Maine?], 29 September 1936 I am sorry I cannot accept President Moore’s kind invitation as I am leaving this country already Oct. 3rd. Since we are bilingual in Switzerland my name is “Carl” as well as “Charles” (French), so there was not much of a …

Carl Jung: Perfectly normal people can have visions in certain moments. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Perfectly normal people can have visions in certain moments. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To J . G. Thompson Dear Mr. Thompson, 23 July 1957 If somebody has a vision it doesn’t mean that he is necessarily insane. Perfectly normal people can have visions in certain moments. St. Paul was definitely not insane nor was his vision extraordinary. I know quite a number of cases of visions …

Carl Jung and “Human Nature Does Not Yield Easily to Idealistic Advice.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung and “Human Nature Does Not Yield Easily to Idealistic Advice.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung and “Human Nature Does Not Yield Easily to Idealistic Advice.”] There is little to criticize in Mr. Roberts’ article since its author is obviously a man of good will and optimistic enthusiasm. Moreover, he points in the right direction, and he gives proper value to man’s mental and moral attitude. He hopes and …

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

Carl Jung on “The Significance of Dreams.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on “The Significance of Dreams.”] Through his language, man tries to designate things in such a way that his words will convey the meaning of what he intends to communicate. But sometimes he uses terms or images that are not strictly descriptive and can be understood only under certain conditions. Take, for instance, …

Instruction ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Instruction ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: On the following night I was led to a second image: I am standing in the rocky depth that seems to me like a crater. Before me I see the house with columns. I see Salome walking along the length of the wall toward the left, touching the wall like a blind person. The serpent follows her. The old …

Carl Jung: I have as little need to convince myself of how good the Catholic Church is for very many people. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: I have as little need to convince myself of how good the Catholic Church is for very many people. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Anonymous Dear N., 7 September 1935 Best thanks for your kind letter. I was very interested to hear of your experiences with the Oxford people. What you tell me accords by and large with my expectations. I can very well imagine that such a milieu is a great relief for you. One of …

Carl Jung and “The Definition of Demonism. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung and “The Definition of Demonism. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung and “The Definition of Demonism.] Demonism (synonymous with daemonomania = possession) denotes a peculiar state of mind characterized by the fact that certain psychic contents, the so-called complexes, take over the control of the total personality in place of the ego, at least temporarily, to such a degree that the free will of …

Carl Jung on Rainer Maria Rilke - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on Rainer Maria Rilke - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Ellen Gregori Dear Fraulein Gregori, 3 August 1957 I have read with much interest your essay on “Rilke’s Psychological Knowledge in the Light of Jungian Theory.” Your argument and the beautiful quotations make it very clear that Rilke drew from the same deep springs as I did-the collective unconscious. He as a poet …

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

Carl Jung on “Sin.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To the Rev . H. L. Philp Dear Mr. Philp, 11 June 1957 The question about “sin” etc. you ask me seems to me difficult to answer, as I don’t understand where you see a difficulty in my way of using these “theological” terms. I beg your pardon, but speaking of “sin” or …

Carl Jung on “Crime and the Soul.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on “Crime and the Soul.” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on “Crime and the Soul.”] (A Boy stabs his sister in the eye with a knife and a Man murders his family including their dog.) The dual personality of the criminal is frequently apparent at first glance. One need not follow the tortuous path of his psychological experiences, disguises, and eventual unmasking as …

Carl Jung: ...Freud previously accused me of anti-Semitism because I could not abide his soulless materialism. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: ...Freud previously accused me of anti-Semitism because I could not abide his soulless materialism. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To James Kirsch My dear Kirsch, 26 May 1934 I am very glad you have written to me once again. It appears that amusing rumours are being spread about me. The only unquestionable fact behind all this stupid gossip is that as honorary president of the International Society for Psychotherapy I could not …

Carl Jung, Dream Analysis Seminar Lecture IX 19 March 1930 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung, Dream Analysis Seminar Lecture IX 19 March 1930 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: LECTURE IX 19 March 1930 Here is a question concerning the archetypes. We were discussing the possibility of representing dreams by the method of crystallizing the archetypes, and Dr. Schlegel’s question is whether one could enumerate them. He is of the opinion that it would be o so. That is one question. There is another …

Carl Jung, Dream Analysis Seminar, Lecture VII, 5 March 1930 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung, Dream Analysis Seminar, Lecture VII, 5 March 1930 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: LECTURE VII 5 March 1930 Last time we came to the strange conclusion that the hermaphroditic figure of that singer in the church really could be a symbol for a god, and today we have to discuss the conclusion still further. It is rather unexpected, but we have to admit that there are plenty of …

The Mysterium [Red Book] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The Mysterium [Red Book] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: On the night when I considered the essence of the God, I became aware of an image: I lay in a dark depth. An old man stood before me. He looked like one of the old prophets. A black serpent lay at his feet. Some distance away I saw a house with columns. A beautiful maiden steps out of …