Carl Jung: Oh Izdubar. Divine one, how wonderful! You are healed!

Carl Jung: Oh Izdubar. Divine one, how wonderful! You are healed!: Black Books At night, when everything calmed down, I put my hand into my pocket and retrieved the egg. It was a real egg with a white hard shell. I placed it on the rug in the middle of the room an…

Carl Jung: The Young Woman with a Snake in her Abdomen

Carl Jung: The Young Woman with a Snake in her Abdomen: C.G, Jung Speaking More specifically, what would be an example of the difference between an intuitive extravert and an intuitive introvert? Well, you know, you have chosen a somewhat difficult ease…

Carl Jung: Then I walk into the welcoming house where Izdubar should find healing.

Carl Jung: Then I walk into the welcoming house where Izdubar should find healing.: Black Books I come to a quiet dark garden and a secluded house. I hide Izdubar under the drooping branches of a tree, go up to the door of the house, and knock. An old maid opens. I ponder the door…

My Most Difficult Experiment

My Most Difficult Experiment: Red Book In 1912, Jung had some significant dreams that he did not understand. He gave particular importance to two of these, which he felt showed the limitations of Freud’s conceptions of dreams. …

The Red One: I fled into solitude and danced all day until I dropped.

The Red One: I fled into solitude and danced all day until I dropped.: Black Books “Be silent, old fool,” the Red One interrupted him [Monk]. If I had not been present, you would have become an outright pig. When you saw me, you finally pulled yours…

The Monk: So we founded the monastery-near the Nile, from where we could see the passing ships.

The Monk: So we founded the monastery-near the Nile, from where we could see the passing ships.: Black Books M. [Anchorite/Monk]: “I would prefer not to tell you. But it does not appear to be a dispensation of God that one can escape. So know then that you, evil spirit, have done me a te…

The collective psyche is a real power as is the external world.

The collective psyche is a real power as is the external world.: Black Books Sunday. On January 27, Jung met with Moltzer. On February 2, Alphonse Maeder gave a presentation at the Association for Analytical Psychology. Judging from the discussion that followed,…

Carl Jung: Both look at me frightened and make the sign of the cross.

Carl Jung: Both look at me frightened and make the sign of the cross.: Black Books I see wide meadows with tall grass–a a carpet of flowers- soft hills-a wood in the distance. I come across two strange journeymen-probably two completely accidental companions; an…

The Anchorite: Every word can work productively in your spirit.

The Anchorite: Every word can work productively in your spirit.: Black Books How childishly you speak! Surely you know that one can read a book many times-perhaps you almost know it by heart, and nevertheless it can be that, when you look again at the lines befo…

I need community with you so that I fall prey neither to the community of the living nor to my desire and you

I need community with you so that I fall prey neither to the community of the living nor to my desire and you: Black Books The God forces me to address this prayer al-s-e to you so that you come to life. Too long have we left you alone. Let us build the bond of community so that living and dead images will …

Anchorite: My father once bought a black slave at the market from the region of the source of the Nile.

Anchorite: My father once bought a black slave at the market from the region of the source of the Nile.: “My father once bought a black slave at the market from the region of the source of the Nile. He came from a country that had heard of neither Osiris nor of Christ and he told me many things …

Anchorite: My father once bought a black slave at the market from the region of the source of the Nile.

Anchorite: My father once bought a black slave at the market from the region of the source of the Nile.: “My father once bought a black slave at the market from the region of the source of the Nile. He came from a country that had heard of neither Osiris nor of Christ and he told me many things …

This description of Elijah connects him with the later description of Philemon.

This description of Elijah connects him with the later description of Philemon.: Black Books In “On the Psychological Aspects of the Figure of the Kore” (1941), Jung described these episodes as follows: “In an underground house, actually in the underworld, the…

…Jung recounted that after Salome’s declaration that he was Christ:

…Jung recounted that after Salome’s declaration that he was Christ:: Black Books In the 1925 seminar, Jung recounted that after Salome’s declaration that he was Christ: “In spite of my objections she maintained this. I said, ‘this is madness,&#8217…

Carl Jung: have received your sprout, you who are to come,

Carl Jung: have received your sprout, you who are to come,: Black Books   1 have received your sprout, you who are to come, I have received it in deepest need and lowliness, I covered it in shabby patchwork and bedded it down on words of straw, and the…

Carl Jung Dreams of his Wife; Emma

Carl Jung Dreams of his Wife; Emma: Black Books After that I had this dream around l 1/2 years ago: I am lying on a bed with my wife in a chamber with an open ceiling (similar to the roofless houses of Pompeii.) All at once my…

Carl Jung: The myth was originally a healing formula through the power of the mind.

Carl Jung: The myth was originally a healing formula through the power of the mind.: Black Books Monday. The following are the minutes for Jung’s December 19, 1913, talk on “The psychology of the unconscious” to the Zurich Psychoanalytical Society: For the primiti…

Carl Jung: The fact that a man who goes his own way ends in ruin means nothing …

Carl Jung: The fact that a man who goes his own way ends in ruin means nothing …: Development of Personality The fact that a man who goes his own way ends in ruin means nothing … He must obey his own law, as if it were a daemon whispering to him of new and wonderful paths…

Carl Jung: I enter into a twilight: I am this and yet also something else.

Carl Jung: I enter into a twilight: I am this and yet also something else.: Forms walked clad in white silk in a colored atmosphere. Each surrounded by a strangely fragrant, glowingly tinted aura, some reddish, the others blueish and greenish. ~Carl Jung, The Black Books, …

Elijah was one of the prophets of the Old Testament.

Elijah was one of the prophets of the Old Testament.: Black Books Elijah was one of the prophets of the Old Testament. He first appears in l Kings 17, bearing a message from God to Ahab, the king of Israel. In 1953, the Carmelite Pere Bruno wrote to J…

In memory of Hermann Sigg,/ my very dear friend,/ died on 9 January 1927.

In memory of Hermann Sigg,/ my very dear friend,/ died on 9 January 1927.: Black Books Hermann Sigg (1875- 1927) was a businessman and a close friend and neighbor of Jung’s and the founder, in 1904, of Haus Sigg & Co., which specialized in olive oil and had plan…

Carl Jung: Psychological phenomena are manifestations of an energy.

Carl Jung: Psychological phenomena are manifestations of an energy.: Black Books Saturday. Liber Primuss, chapter 3, “On the Service of the Soul” (LN, p. 137). On November 21 Jung had given a presentation to the Zurich Psychoanalytical Society on “…

Is Analytical Psychology a Religion?

Is Analytical Psychology a Religion?: Is Analytical Psychology a Religion?   Is Analytical Psychology a Religion? After speaking at the Harvard Tercentenary Conference Jung spent a week at Bailey Island, Maine, giving the first ha…

Carl Jung: I suddenly woke up from a dream.

Carl Jung: I suddenly woke up from a dream.: I am thinking of this first vision that you gave me in a dream, where I saw You [Jung’s Soul] hovering. (Is it 14 years since then?) ~Carl Jung, The Black Books, Vol. II, Page 152 The preced…

Philemon Foundation Donor Webinars

Philemon Foundation Donor Webinars: Philemon Foundation News

Carl Jung: Half a year or so before I had that dream about the white bird I dreamed the following

Carl Jung: Half a year or so before I had that dream about the white bird I dreamed the following: Black Books   Half a year or so before I had that dream about the white bird I dreamed the following: I was in a southern town, on a rising street with narrow half-landings. It was twelve o&#8…

Dr. Jung’s Images from The Black Books

Dr. Jung’s Images from The Black Books: Mandala sketch I. Mandala sketch l appears to be the first in the series of mandala sketches and is dated August 2, 1917. It is the basis for Image 80 in the calligraphic volume of LN. The legend a…

We [Elijah/Salome] are really together and are not symbols. We are real and together. ~Elijah

We [Elijah/Salome] are really together and are not symbols. We are real and together. ~Elijah: Black Books You do me wrong, Elijah is my father, and he knows the deepest mysteries, the walls of his house are made of precious stones, his wells hold healing water and his deep eye sees the thin…

Carl Jung: Hence I discriminate between the I and the self,..

Carl Jung: Hence I discriminate between the I and the self,..: Black Books Inasmuch as the I is only the center of my field of consciousness, it is not identical with the totality of my psyche, being merely a complex among other complexes. Hence I discriminate…

Is there a moral issue involved in individuation?

Is there a moral issue involved in individuation?: Jung’s Typology Question: Is there a moral issue involved in individuation? Is it a question of perfection in a strictly moral sense? Von Franz: The process of individuation is an ethical pro…

She [Toni Wolff] felt that his fame and success were increasingly taking him away from her…

She [Toni Wolff] felt that his fame and success were increasingly taking him away from her…: Black Books She [Toni Wolff] felt that his fame and success were increasingly taking him away from her and resented “his works, ideas, patients, lectures, E. [Emma], children.” This was…

Carl Jung: Picture by a middle-aged man. In the center is a star.

Carl Jung: Picture by a middle-aged man. In the center is a star.: Image 105, LN Black Books In 1930, Jung anonymously reproduced this image in “Commentary on The Secret of the Golden Flower” as a mandala painted by a male patient during treatment. He …

Jung’s Soul: She (Salome) is between things and you. I am between the eternal images and you.

Jung’s Soul: She (Salome) is between things and you. I am between the eternal images and you.: Black Books First and foremost, you [Jung] should see that you are behind. Why did you give me the two kinds of properties? Why did you not separate the opposites? Why did you leave me mixed? This …

Carl Jung on “Abraxas” – Quotations – Anthology

Carl Jung on “Abraxas” – Quotations – Anthology: Black Books The death of Christ took no suffering away from the world, but his life has taught us much; namely, that it pleases the one God if the individual lives his own life against the power of…

Carl Jung: Subsequently, the anima, in the form of the mother imago, is transferred to the wife:

Carl Jung: Subsequently, the anima, in the form of the mother imago, is transferred to the wife:: Black Books For a man, the mother “protects him against the dangers that threaten from the darkness of his soul.” Subsequently, the anima, in the form of the mother imago, is transferre…

Following the Polzeath seminar, Cary de Angulo wrote a paper on “Individual Relationships.”

Following the Polzeath seminar, Cary de Angulo wrote a paper on “Individual Relationships.”: Black Books Following the Polzeath seminar, Cary de Angulo wrote a paper on “Individual Relationships.” She began by noting: In the last two or three sessions of our summer school at Po…

In December 1924, Jung visited America.

In December 1924, Jung visited America.: Black Books In the twenties, many artists and writers went to New Mexico in recognition of the bankruptcy of American civilization. The Indians were viewed as people who had maintained their cultur…

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