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

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

Carl Jung: Only numinous experiences retain their original simplicity

Carl Jung: Only numinous experiences retain their original simplicity: Letters of C. G. Jung: Volume I, 1906-1950 (Vol 1) To Traugott Egloff Dear Herr Egloff, 8 June 1959 I am very much obliged to you for your kind gift. It has awakened old memories of my youth…

Jung’s Psychology in Britain by G. Stewart Prince

Jung’s Psychology in Britain by G. Stewart Prince: Contact with Jung: Essays on the influence of his work and personality   Jung’s Psychology in Britain by G. Stewart Prince It will be undisputed that H. G. Baynes, more than any other individu…

Some Carl Jung Quotations

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

Carl Jung on the “Art of Interpreting Dreams.”

Carl Jung on the “Art of Interpreting Dreams.”: Civilization in Transition (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 10) [Carl Jung on the “Art of Interpreting Dreams.”] The art of interpreting dreams cannot be learnt from books. Methods and ru…

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

An interesting story about the Dean’s wife at Yale University during Dr. Jung’s Terry Lectures.: Meetings with Jung: Conversations Recorded During the Years, 1946-1961 At the third [Terry Yale] lecture it was crowded with people standing and sitting everywhere. ‘Yet,’ he said, ‘it was v…

Carl Jung on "Suicide."

Carl Jung on "Suicide.": C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 To Eleanor Bertine Dear Dr. Bertine, 25 July 1946 I’m just spending a most agreeable time of rest in my tower and enjoy sailing as the only sport w…

Chaos Philosophorum

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

The goal is to preserve in a transfigured form

The goal is to preserve in a transfigured form: Secret of the Golden Flower In “The Secret of the Golden Flower” the “As Above, So Below” of the West is harmonized with the Taoism of the East: Viewed objectively as a phys…

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

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

Carl Jung on “Personal Unconscious.” Lexicon

Carl Jung on “Personal Unconscious.” Lexicon: Carl Jung Lexicon NYAAP Personal unconscious: The personal layer of the unconscious, distinct from the collective unconscious. The personal unconscious contains lost memories, painful ideas that ar…

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

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

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

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

Carl Jung on the “Persona.” Lexicon.

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

Carl Jung on Wholeness and Unity.

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

Carl Jung on the “Desert” – Anthology

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

Carl Jung on the Ego and “Free Will.”

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

Carl Jung on “Yoga” – YouTube

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Carl Jung in Memorium to Toni Wolff

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

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

Carl Jung: .. creators of modern art are unconscious about the meaning of their creations.: Letters of C. G. Jung: Volume 2, 1951-1961 So f.i. “God,” then “magic,” “religious,” etc. I would propose the term “numinous” instead of &#822…

Carl Jung on Richard Wilhelm

Carl Jung on Richard Wilhelm: Memories Dreams Reflections   I first met Richard Wilhelm at Count Keyserling’s during a meeting of the “School of Wisdom” in…

Carl Jung: Love Should be Broken

Carl Jung: Love Should be Broken: The Red Book Sacred Love Versus Profane Love (1602–03) by Giovanni Baglione Not the p…

Carl Jung and “Bollingen” – YouTube

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Carl Jung and “Bollingen” – YouTube

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Carl Jung on “Space” and “Architectural Archetypes”

Carl Jung on “Space” and “Architectural Archetypes”: Letters of C. G. Jung: Volume 2, 1951-1961 To Peter de Brant Dear Sir, 20 June 1959 In dealing with space man has produced-since time immemorial -the circle and the square, which are connect…

Some Carl Jung Quotations

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Carl Jung on “Hitler” “Nazi” and “Gestapo” – Anthology

Carl Jung on “Hitler” “Nazi” and “Gestapo” – Anthology: Hitler himself (from what I heard) is more than half crazy. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. I, Page 278 For some years before Hitler and his party seized power, Jung had kept an anxious eye on Germany, wo…

Carl Jung on the “Nature of Matter” – Anthology – Quotations

Carl Jung on the “Nature of Matter” – Anthology – Quotations: • “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 …

Some Carl Jung Quotations XXXIX

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

Carl Jung on “Gnosis” – YouTube

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Carl Jung on Active Imagination and Yoga Meditation.

Carl Jung on Active Imagination and Yoga Meditation.: Modern Psychology: C. G. Jung’s Lectures at the ETH Zürich, 1933-1941 Lecture III 11th November, 1938 I began to read you an old text in the last lecture. This text will show us how the east…

Existence of God

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

The Craft of Dying

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

Carl Jung: Many things should be put right in oneself first, before we apply our imperfections to our fellow-beings.

Carl Jung: Many things should be put right in oneself first, before we apply our imperfections to our fellow-beings.: Carl Jung Letters Vol. II Anonymous Dear Sir, 14 February 1961 It is very difficult to answer your question. I should give you the same answer as Shri Ramana Maharshj, but I see too much the…

Some Carl Jung Quotations VII

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

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

Carl Jung: Often people come for analysis who wish to be prepared to meet death.: 1925 Seminar by Carl Jung Often people come for analysis who wish to be prepared to meet death. They can make astonishingly good progress in a short time and then die peacefully. Inner development …

Carl Jung on “Opposites.” Lexicon.

Carl Jung on “Opposites.” Lexicon.: Carl Jung Lexicon NYAAP Opposites: Psychologically, the ego and the unconscious. (See also compensation, conflict, progression and transcendent function.) There is no consciousness without d…

Carl Jung – Hans Guisan Schmid Correspondence – Anthology

Carl Jung – Hans Guisan Schmid Correspondence – Anthology: The Question of Psychological Types: The Correspondence of C. G. Jung and Hans Schmid-Guisan, 1915–1916 (Philemon Foundation SeriesI t is more likely that in the unconscious of the introvert there …

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

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

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

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

Carl Jung – “After this dream I gave up drawing and painting mandalas.”

Carl Jung – “After this dream I gave up drawing and painting mandalas.”: [Carl Jung – “After this dream I gave up drawing and painting mandalas.”] Some years later (in 1927) I obtained confirmation of my ideas about the center and the self by way of a drea…

Carl Jung on “Astrology” – YouTube

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Carl Jung on “Mythopoeic Imagination."

Carl Jung on “Mythopoeic Imagination.": Memories Dreams Reflections [Carl Jung on “Mythopoeic Imagination.”] It is of course ironical that I, a psychiatrist, should at almost every step of my experiment have run into the sam…

Carl Jung and Sabina Spielrein – YouTube

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Carl Jung: "The animus corresponds to the paternal Logos just as the anima corresponds to the maternal Eros."

Carl Jung: "The animus corresponds to the paternal Logos just as the anima corresponds to the maternal Eros.": Psychology and Alchemy The animus corresponds to the paternal Logos just as the anima corresponds to the maternal Eros. But I do not wish or intend to give these two intuitive concepts too s…

Carl Jung on “Elijah” The Red Book – Anthology

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

“Philemon” in The Red Book – Anthology

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

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

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

Carl Jung on “Archetypes” – Anthology

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

Philemon first appears to Dr. Jung in a Dream

Philemon first appears to Dr. Jung in a Dream: The Red Book A critical figure in Jung’s fantasies during this period was that of Philemon. In Memories, Jung recalled that Philemon first appeared to him in a dream. In this, Jung saw a sea blue sky…

Philemon first appears to Dr. Jung in a Dream

Philemon first appears to Dr. Jung in a Dream: A critical figure in Jung’s fantasies during this period was that of Philemon. In Memories, Jung recalled that Philemon first appeared to him in a dream. In this, Jung saw a sea blue sky, covered by …

Carl Jung: The earth is a microcosm in the great cosmos of the stars and we are ourselves microcosms upon the earth.

Carl Jung: The earth is a microcosm in the great cosmos of the stars and we are ourselves microcosms upon the earth.: The Visions Seminar Dr. Barker: People usually pray. Dr. Jung: There you have it. She says: “I wanted to pray. Then I knew that I could only pray to my star.” The star is a symbo…

Carl Jung and why a Living Human Body is necessary for the Redemption of our Dead.

Carl Jung and why a Living Human Body is necessary for the Redemption of our Dead.: The Red Book [Carl Jung and why a Living Human Body is necessary for the Redemption of our Dead. If we do not Redeem our Dead who is going to?] “Later, when I wrote the Septem Sermones…

Edward F. Edinger: So the fruit of the tree is eaten and the inevitable consequences unfold.

Edward F. Edinger: So the fruit of the tree is eaten and the inevitable consequences unfold.: Ego and Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function of the Psyche The development of Ego Consciousness is a ‘crime’ against the original state of Wholeness that preceded it. Reparations mus…

Carl Jung Quotations XXXVII

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

The Origins of the Cross……

The Origins of the Cross……: The Meaning of the Sign of the Cross Hermetic Meaning of the Sign of the Cross by Mark Stavish Gestures and symbols have always played a major part in the Western Mystery traditions. Yet, of…

The God Image is…………..

The God Image is…………..: Psychological Types Carl Jung and Meister Eckhart The God-image is the symbolic expression of a particular psychic state, or Function, which is characterized by its absolute ascendancy over the wil…

The Gnostic Science of Alchemy

The Gnostic Science of Alchemy: Gnostic Science of Alchemy The Gnostic Science of Alchemy: According to Zosimos of Panopolis, a fourth century alchemical apologist, the “sons of God” mentioned briefly in Genesis taugh…

Carl Jung on the “Allegoriae Sapientum” and “Shri Ramana Maharshi.”

Carl Jung on the “Allegoriae Sapientum” and “Shri Ramana Maharshi.”: Modern Psychology: C. G. Jung’s Lectures at the ETH Zürich, 1933-1941 Lecture XII 7th February, 1941 We stopped last time in the middle of a sequence of quotations from the “Allegoriae Sapien…

Carl Jung on the “Lion” – Anthology

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

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

Carl Jung’s Foreword to Elida Evans: “The Problem of the Nervous Child.”: The Symbolic Life: Miscellaneous Writings (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 18) I have read the manuscript of Mrs. Evans’ book, The Problem of the Nervous Child, with great pleasure …

Carl Jung: All in all Nietzsche was to me the only man of that time who gave some adequate answers to certain urgent questions..

Carl Jung: All in all Nietzsche was to me the only man of that time who gave some adequate answers to certain urgent questions..: div dir='ltr' style='t ext-align: left;” trbidi=”on”Carl Jung: All in all Nietzsche was to me the only man of that time who gave some adequate answers to ce…

Wolfgang Pauli critique of Dr. Jung’s "Answer to Job"

Wolfgang Pauli critique of Dr. Jung’s "Answer to Job": Atom and Archetype: The Pauli/Jung Letters, 1932-1958 Motto: “To be,” or “not to be,” this is the question Dear Professor Jung, 27 February 1953 A year has elapsed since I …

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

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

Some Carl Jung Quotations XXXVI

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

Betrayal and Taking of Christ

Betrayal and Taking of Christ: The Taking of Christ by Caravaggio, ca. 1602. According to the Canonical Gospels, after the Last Supper, Jesus and his disciples travel to Gethsemane, a garden located at the edge of the Kidron Val…

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

The symbol is the word that goes out of the mouth….: The Red Book The symbol is the word that goes out of the mouth, that one does …

The Red Book and Psychological Types

The Red Book and Psychological Types: The Red Book Dr. Jung concludes the “Liber Secundus” portion of The Red Book w…

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

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

Life stands above Love ~Carl Jung

Life stands above Love ~Carl Jung: The Red Book Archetypal lovers Romeo and Juliet portrayed by Frank Dicksee One can speak in beautiful words about love, but about life? And life sta…

Carl Jung on “Tantric Meditations”

Carl Jung on “Tantric Meditations”: Modern Psychology: C. G. Jung’s Lectures at the ETH Zürich, 1933-1941 Lecture VII 16th December, 1938 We began a Tantrik text in our last lecture and we will penetrate further into its depths today…

Carl Jung on “Intuitives who construct Daydreams”

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

Carl Jung on “Nigredo.” Lexicon

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

Carl Jung: …I never expected such a gigantic outburst of abysmal horrors.

Carl Jung: …I never expected such a gigantic outburst of abysmal horrors.: Carl Jung Letters Volume 1 To Susan R. Bach Dear Mrs. Bach, 26 September 1945 Thank you for your kind birthday wishes. I was very interested in your “report” of what you have been doing…

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

Carl Jung: the souls of the dead know only what they knew at the moment of death, and nothing beyond that…: Memories Dreams Reflections [Carl Jung: …the souls of the dead “know” only what they knew at the moment of death, and nothing beyond that…] Later, when I wrote the Septem Sermone…

Carl Jung on "Crime." – Anthology

Carl Jung on "Crime." – Anthology: Individual existence is the crime against the gods, disobedience to God, the peccatum originale. Out of this projection of spiritual fire is born the anima. ~Carl Jung, Jung-Ostrowski, Page …

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

Carl Jung on Individuation and be "Bidden" to ones "Vocation.": The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Vol. 17: The Development of Personality (Collected Works of C.G. Jung [Carl Jung on Individuation and be “Bidden” to ones “Vocation.”] Wha…

Carl Jung: Scrutinies

Carl Jung: Scrutinies: The Red Book Scrutinies 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: …

Carl Jung: The confrontation with the unconscious

Carl Jung: The confrontation with the unconscious: Letters of C. G. Jung: Volume I, 1906-1950 (Vol 1) To Dr. S. In the confrontation with the unconscious there are indeed a considerable number of arid patches to be worked through. They canno…

Carl Jung on "Lucifer" "Fallen Angels" – Anthology

Carl Jung on "Lucifer" "Fallen Angels" – Anthology: The notion of the fallen Lucifer means that a being of the light has fallen under the law of gravity, that it has assumed a material body. In Dante’s Divine Comedy, Lucifer, with his three h…

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

Carl Jung: Such a fantasy can be the highest expression of the unity of a man’s individuality,: Psychological Types (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Vol. 6) (Bollingen Series XX) It is probable that passive fantasies always have their origin in an unconscious process that is antithe…

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

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

The Spirit and the Torment of Sanctification

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

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

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

Sahasrara Crown Chakra

Sahasrara Crown Chakra: Kundalini Yoga Sahasrara Crown Chakra Speaking of the Sahasrara, the lotus of a thousand leaves, is completely obsolete, because it’s a pure philosophical concept. Without any substance to us…

Ajna Third Eye Chakra – Winged Seed

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

Carl Jung on “Meditation.” Lexicon

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

Carl Jung on “Image of God” – Anthology

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

Carl Jung on Galla Placidia as a suitable embodiment of his Anima.

Carl Jung on Galla Placidia as a suitable embodiment of his Anima.: Memories Dreams Reflections [Carl Jung on Galla Placidia as a suitable embodiment of his Anima.] Even on the occasion of my first visit to Ravenna in 1913, the tomb of Galla Placidia seemed …

Carl Jung on “Neurosis.” [Anthology]

Carl Jung on “Neurosis.” [Anthology]: The psychological trouble in neurosis, and the neurosis itself, can be formulated as an act of adaptation that has failed. ~Carl Jung; CW 4; par. 574. An exclusively sexual interpretation of…

Carl Jung on “Neurosis.” Lexicon

Carl Jung on “Neurosis.” Lexicon: Carl Jung Lexicon NYAAP Neurosis: A psychological crisis due to a state of disunity with oneself, or, more formally, a mild dissociation of the personality due to the activation of complexes. (See …

Alchemy and Christian Mysticism

Alchemy and Christian Mysticism: Psychology and Alchemy “From this point of view, alchemy seems like a continuation of Christian mysticism carried on in the subterranean darkness of the unconscious…. But this unconscio…

Excerpts from "Psychology and Alchemy" by Carl Jung

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

Carl Jung’s "Dream Interpretation Ancient and Modern"

Carl Jung’s "Dream Interpretation Ancient and Modern": Dream Interpretation Ancient and Modern: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936–…

Carl Jung on Middle Age

Carl Jung on Middle Age: The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche (Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 8) (Collected Works of C.G. Jung The nearer we approach to the middle of life, and the better we have succeeded…

Carl Jung on "Participation Mystique" – Anthology

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

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

Carl Jung: Another dream-determinant that deserves mention is telepathy.: The Practice of Psychotherapy: Essays on the Psychology of the Transference and Other Subjects (Bollingen Series) Another dream-determinant that deserves mention is telepathy. The authentici…

Carl Jung on "Suicide."

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

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

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

Carl Jung and the Aeon of Aquarius

Carl Jung and the Aeon of Aquarius: AION We can say something analogous about Jung. We are about to enter the aeon of Aquarius the water carrier and in a sense Jung is the last fish and the first water carrier. Aquarius carrie…

Gerhard Wehr on Carl Jung’s “Work”

Gerhard Wehr on Carl Jung’s “Work”: Jung A Biography The Work In the early years of his activity as a psychiatrist and analytical psychologist, Jung repeatedly found himself pressed to define his position and to distinguish it from t…

Anima Mundi Mandala

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

Vishuddha Throat Chakra – Ether Element – White Elephant

Vishuddha Throat Chakra – Ether Element – White Elephant: Kundalini Yoga Seminar Vishuddha Throat Chakra – Ether Element – White Elephant [Not simply an Elephant but a white elephant Here one rises above the emperic world, and lands into a wor…

Carl Jung on the “Ego.” Anthology

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

Letter from Sigmund Freud dated June 15, 1911

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

Carl Jung: The religious person enjoys a great advantage…

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

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

Carl Jung: This grasping of the whole is obviously the aim of science as well…: Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle. (From Vol. 8. of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung) (Bollingen Series XX: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 8) This grasping of the whole is …

Carl Jung: What I told my wife about it also made the deepest impression on her.

Carl Jung: What I told my wife about it also made the deepest impression on her.: Freud/Jung Letters Dear Professor Freud 2 April 1909 Worry and patients and all the other chores of daily life have beset once again and quite got me down for the first 2 days. Now I am slowly corn…

Carl Jung on “Myth.” Lexicon

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

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

Carl Jung: I myself am the enemy who must be loved—what then?: Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 11: Psychology and Religion: West and East Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the grea…

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

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

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

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

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Some Carl Jung Quotations XXXIII

Some Carl Jung Quotations XXXIII: But the way is my own self my own life founded upon myself The God wants my life. He wants to go with me, sit at the table with me, work with me. Above all he wants to be ever-present. ~Carl…

Carl Jung on the "Academic Psychologist."

Carl Jung on the "Academic Psychologist.": Man and His Symbols The academic psychologist is perfectly free to dismiss the phenomenon of emotion or the concept of the unconscious (or both) from his consideration. Yet they remain facts…

The Personal and Collective Pyche

The Personal and Collective Pyche: The Portable Jung We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which…

Carl Jung on Gnostic, Gnosticism, and Gnosis. [Anthology]

Carl Jung on Gnostic, Gnosticism, and Gnosis. [Anthology]: Carl Jung on Gnostic, Gnosticism, and Gnosis. [Anthology] The new Gnostic churches are all new inventions of old things, like soup warmed up again, they have no direct relation. ~Carl Jung, …

Carl Jung and Erich Fromm

Carl Jung and Erich Fromm: Jung With Erich Fromm, who had openly voiced his aversion to Jung since the mid-thirties, as with Paul J. Stern after him, Jung rose to the status of “prophet of the unconscious.” But a…

Gnosis, as a special kind of knowledge, should not be confused with. "Gnosticism."

Gnosis, as a special kind of knowledge, should not be confused with. "Gnosticism.": Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 11: Psychology and Religion: West and East Gnosi…

Carl Jung on Theosophy and Quotations

Carl Jung on Theosophy and Quotations: [Carl Jung on Theosophy.] The destructive quality of this thinking as well as its occasional and limited usefulness, hardly need further elucidation. But there still exists another form of negative…

Carl Jung: One is struck by the enormous diversity of human individuals…

Carl Jung: One is struck by the enormous diversity of human individuals…: Psychological Types I have given a detailed description of a purely psychological typology in my book Psychological Types. My investigation was based on twenty years of work as a doctor, whi…

Mercurius is the Logos become world…..

Mercurius is the Logos become world…..: Mercurius Our Mercurius is therefore that same [Microcosm], who contains within him the perfections, virtues, and powers of Sol [in the dual sense of sun and gold], and who goes through the streets…

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

Carl Jung: I must recall at this point a serious misunderstanding to which my readers often succumb, and doctors most commonly.: Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 7: Two Essays in Analytical Psychology I must recall at this point a serious misunderstanding to which my readers often succumb, and doctors most commonly. They…

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

Carl Jung: Most of the others stuck by me splendidly and did their best to unhorse Bleuler.: Freud/Jung Letters Dear Professor Freud, 30 April 1910 At last I can report to you after the uproar last week. In a private talk beforehand, Bleuler, very huffy and irritable, gave me a flat refusa…

Carl Jung on…………..Death

Carl Jung on…………..Death: Carl Jung on Death “We are so convinced that death is simply the end of a process that it does not ordinarily occur to us to conceive of death as a goal and a fulfillment.” “It would seem to be mor…

Carl Jung on Diagnostic and Therapeutic Practices

Carl Jung on Diagnostic and Therapeutic Practices: Conversations with Carl Jung and Reactions from Ernest Jones Jung on Diagnostic and Therapeutic Practices: Dr. Evans: We American psychologists do a great deal of testing, utilizing “p…

Some Carl Jung Quotations XXXII

Some Carl Jung Quotations XXXII: The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity. ~Carl Jung, CW 8, Para 187 One needs death to be able to harvest the fruit. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 275. The woun…

Carl Jung on “Astrology” – Anthology

Carl Jung on “Astrology” – Anthology: Letters of C. G. Jung: Volume I, 1906-1950 (Vol 1) Astrology has actually nothing to do with the Stars but is the 5000 year old psychology of antiquity and the Middle Ages. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol.…

Carl Jung: I also wish there could be a supplementary bibliography” of the literature concerned ‘with your work.

Carl Jung: I also wish there could be a supplementary bibliography” of the literature concerned ‘with your work.: Freud/Jung Letters Dear Professor Freud, 14February 1911 First of all I am very glad to hear you are well again. Couldn’t anyone smell the gas? From a very discreet source a little of your so…

Examples of Deirdre Bair’s errors in her “Jung: A Biography”

Examples of Deirdre Bair’s errors in her “Jung: A Biography”: Jung Stripped Bare: By His Biographers, Even [Examples of Deirdre Bair’s errors in her “Jung: A Biography” as cited in Footnotes provided by Sonu Shamdasani in “Jung Stripped Bare-By h…

“Jung: A Biography,” by Deirdre Bair is fraught with errors and falsifications

“Jung: A Biography,” by Deirdre Bair is fraught with errors and falsifications: Jung Stripped Bare: By His Biographers, Even [ “Jung: A Biography,” by Deirdre Bair is fraught with errors as outlined by Sonu Shamdasani. Sadly many accept erroneous assertions as “fact.” T…

Carl Jung: Everywhere we are haunted by psyche = substantia, playing on the brain ala piano.

Carl Jung: Everywhere we are haunted by psyche = substantia, playing on the brain ala piano.: Freud/Jung Letters Dear Professor Freud, 18 April 1908 Your last letter upset me. I have read a lot between the lines. I don’t doubt that if only I could talk with you we could come to a basi…

The Jung Family Coat of Arms

The Jung Family Coat of Arms: Jung Among the carvings he produced in Bollingen in the severe winter of 1955-56 were three stone tablets. On these, which were placed in the open courtyard, he inscribed the names of his paternal …

The Unconscious: Archetypes

The Unconscious: Archetypes: Conversations with Carl Jung and Reactions from Ernest Jones The Unconscious: Archetypes: Dr. Evans: You mentioned earlier that Freud’s Oedipal situation was an example of an archetype. At th…

The Soul is a "Sphere."

The Soul is a "Sphere.": AION Ever since the Timaeus it has been repeatedly stated that the soul is a sphere. As the anima mundi., the soul revolves with the world wheel, whose hub is the Pole. That is why the “heart…

Carl Jung: "All kinds of things lead me far away from my scientific endeavor…"

Carl Jung: "All kinds of things lead me far away from my scientific endeavor…": The Red Book All kinds of things lead me far away from my scientific endeavor, which I thought I had subscribed to firmly I wanted to serve humanity through it, and now, my soul, you lead me…

Carl Jung: It is not the purpose of a psychological typology to classify human beings into categories—this in itself would be pretty pointless.

Carl Jung: It is not the purpose of a psychological typology to classify human beings into categories—this in itself would be pretty pointless.: Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 6: Psychological Types It is not the purpose of a psychological typology to classify human beings into categories—this in itself would be pretty pointles…

Carl Jung on “Hallucinations” – Anthology

Carl Jung on “Hallucinations” – Anthology: Schizophrenics with visions and hallucinations have a better prognosis than those who hear voices. The latter are more enslaved by the unconscious. ? ~Carl Jung, Conversations with C.G. Jung, Page …

Carl Jung on “Parents” – Anthology

Carl Jung on “Parents” – Anthology: But no matter how much parents and grandparents may have sinned against the child, the man who is really adult will accept these sins as his own condition which has to be reckoned with. ~Carl Jung,…

Carl Jung: The saving factor is the symbol,

Carl Jung: The saving factor is the symbol,: Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 6: Psychological Types The more the libido is invested —or, to be more accurate, invests itself—in the unconscious, the greater becomes its influence or …

Carl Jung: You are quite right: on the whole I was unfair to Stekel’s book. But only to you.

Carl Jung: You are quite right: on the whole I was unfair to Stekel’s book. But only to you.: The Freud/Jung Letters Dear Professor Freud 21 August 1908 I am eagerly looking forward to your visit, which you are going to extend by several days. We shall have plenty to talk about-you may be s…

Aniela Jaffe on Dr. Jung’s “Letters”

Aniela Jaffe on Dr. Jung’s “Letters”: Even when Aniela Jaffe, his part-time secretary since 1955, lent a hand with the writing and organizing, the correspondence absorbed much of his strength.   “Jung’s correspondence …

Carl Jung on “Fate.” [Anthology]

Carl Jung on “Fate.” [Anthology]: But a conscious attitude that renounces its ego-bound intentions—not in imagination only, but in truth—and submits to the supra-personal decrees of fate, can claim to be serving a king. This…

Carl Jung on "Moira, the personification of inevitable fate."

Carl Jung on "Moira, the personification of inevitable fate.": Jung Seminars Children`s Dreams Notes from the Seminar In this connection, we might refer to a Greek concept that is found in Plato’s Timaeus. According to it, the Moira, the personification…

Carl Jung: "How hard is fate!"

Carl Jung: "How hard is fate!": The Red Book How hard is fate! If you take a step toward your soul, you will at first miss the meaning. You will believe that you have sunk into meaninglessness, into eternal disorder. You will be …

Carl Jung on the “Individual.” Lexicon

Carl Jung on the “Individual.” Lexicon: Carl Jung Lexicon NYAAP Carl Jung on the “Individual.” Lexicon Individual: Unique and unlike anyone else, distinguished from what is collective. (See also individuality.) A distinction must …

Carl Jung on the aim of Psychotherapy

Carl Jung on the aim of Psychotherapy: The Practice of Psychotherapy (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 16) “The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport the patient to an impossible state of happiness, but to h…

Carl Jung on “Incest.” Lexicon

Carl Jung on “Incest.” Lexicon: Carl Jung Lexicon NYAAP Incest: Psychologically, the regressive longing for the security of childhood and early youth. Jung interpreted incest images in dreams and fantasies not concretely b…

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

Carl Jung: Childhood and Student Years (1875-1900): Childhood and Student Years {1875-1900): Carl Gustav Jung was born July 26, 1875, in Kesswil, Switzerland, on Lake Constance. His paternal grandfather, alter whom he was named, had moved fro…

Carl Jung on Intuition and Intuitives. Anthology

Carl Jung on Intuition and Intuitives. Anthology: Intuition does not say what things mean but sniffs out their possibilities. Meaning is given by thinking. – Carl Jung, Jung-Kirsch Letters, Page 21 Intuitives are often very poor because the…

Carl Jung on a case of “Catalepsy”

Carl Jung on a case of “Catalepsy”: Dear Professor Freud, 17 April 1907 Many thanks for your news! Unfortunately I must tell you at once that we have no room at all in the Clinic at present, which is most regrettable. We are once aga…

Carl Jung on “Sex” “Sexuality – Anthology

Carl Jung on “Sex” “Sexuality – Anthology: Man shall differentiate himself both from spirituality and sexuality. He shall call spirituality mother, and set her between Heaven and earth. He shall call sexuality Phallos, and set him between h…

The Encounter with Emma Rauschenbach

The Encounter with Emma Rauschenbach: The Encounter with Emma Rauschenbach   The central theme in the work of C. G. Jung is that of individuation, the self-development of the human being through the process of unifying the opposit…

Carl Jung’s Vision and the Island of Kos

Carl Jung’s Vision and the Island of Kos: Letters of C. G. Jung: Volume I, 1906-1950 (Vol 1)   To Arnim Haemmerli Dear Colleague, 25 October 1955 Now that the flood of letters on and around my eightieth birthday has abated somewhat, I…

Carl Jung on “Imago.” Lexicon.

Carl Jung on “Imago.” Lexicon.: Carl Jung Lexicon NYAAP Carl Jung on “Imago.” Lexicon. Imago: A term used to differentiate the objective reality of a person or a thing from the subjective perception of its importance. The …

Carl Jung on “Identification.” Lexicon

Carl Jung on “Identification.” Lexicon: Carl Jung Lexicon NYAAP Carl Jung on “Identification.” Lexicon Identification A psychological process in which the personality is partially or totally dissimilated. (See also participation m…

Carl Jung on “Emptiness” “Empty” – Anthology

Carl Jung on “Emptiness” “Empty” – Anthology: If the God alights from matter, we feel the emptiness of matter as one part of endless empty space. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 288. If you embrace your self then it will appear to you as if the …

Oblation of the Bread and Preparation of the Chalice

Oblation of the Bread and Preparation of the Chalice: Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 11: Psychology and Religion: West and East OBLATION OF THE BREAD 310 The Host is lifted up towards the cross on the altar, and the priest makes the sign of the …

C.G. Jung discussed “The Significance of the Father in the Destiny of the Individual.”

C.G. Jung discussed “The Significance of the Father in the Destiny of the Individual.”: Jung  C.G. Jung discussed “The Significance of the Father in the Destiny of the Individual.” He remarked, among other things: If ever we wish to see the workings of a demonic power of f…

Carl Jung on “The Afternoon of Life” – Quotations

Carl Jung on “The Afternoon of Life” – Quotations: The afternoon of life is just as full of meaning as the morning; only, its meaning and purpose are different…. ~Carl Jung, CW 7, Para 114. What youth found and must find outside, the man of life&#8…

Carl Jung on “Hostile Brothers.” Lexicon

Carl Jung on “Hostile Brothers.” Lexicon: Carl Jung Lexicon NYAAP Carl Jung on “Hostile Brothers.” Lexicon Hostile brothers: An archetypal motif associated with the opposites constellated in a conflict situation. Examples of the hos…

Some Carl Jung Quotations XXXI

Some Carl Jung Quotations XXXI: The same is true of the religious attitude: it must be fully conscious of itself and of its foundations if it is to signify anything more than unconscious imitation. ~Carl Jung, CW 5, Para 1…

Sabina Spielrein Biography

Sabina Spielrein Biography: Sabina Spielrein (1885-1942)Sabina Spielrein was born the eldest of four children in Rostov on Don. Her father, Nikolai Spielrein was a wealthy Russian-Jewish businessman and her mother Eva Luyblin…