Wednesday, June 30, 2021

1My soul, my soul, where are you? Do you hear me? I speak, I call you- are you there?

1My soul, my soul, where are you? Do you hear me? I speak, I call you- are you there?: The Black Books   November 12-December 29, 1913 A huge task lay before me- I saw its enormous size-and its value and meaning escaped me. I got into the dark, and I groped along my path. That p…

Jung now commenced writing the draft of Liber Novus.

Jung now commenced writing the draft of Liber Novus.: Red Book Liber Novus Jung now commenced writing the draft of Liber Novus. He faithfully transcribed most of the fantasies from the Black Books, and to each of these added a section explaining the s…

Tuesday, June 29, 2021

The Dysfunctional God-Images in a Broken World Interview with Jean Raffa, Ed. D.

The Dysfunctional God-Images in a Broken World Interview with Jean Raffa, Ed. D.: The Dysfunctional God-Images in a Broken World INTERVIEW WITH Jean Raffa, Ed.D. Dysfunctional God-Images in a Broken World – Jean Raffa Interview FEBRUARY 2019 INTERVIEWER: Teresa Oster MSW, …

Inside Jung’s Red Book: Six Questions for Sonu Shamdasani

Inside Jung’s Red Book: Six Questions for Sonu Shamdasani: Inside Jung’s Red Book: Six Questions for Sonu Shamdasani By Scott Horton on October 19, 2009 The long-awaited publication of C.G. Jung’s Red Book is causing ripples in the world of psychology. Not…

Monday, June 28, 2021

Since there is no nag that cannot be ridden to death

Since there is no nag that cannot be ridden to death: The Development of Personality Since there is no nag that cannot be ridden to death, all theories of neurosis and methods of treatment are a dubious affair. So I always find it cheering when…

Toni Wolff: A Chronology

Toni Wolff: A Chronology: Four Eternal Women: Toni Wolff Revisited – A Study in Opposites by Mary Dian Molton Toni Wolff: A Chronology This section is intended to provide a touchstone, drawing forth significant points…

Sunday, June 27, 2021

Toni Wolff, Structural Forms of the Feminine Psyche – Quotations

Toni Wolff, Structural Forms of the Feminine Psyche – Quotations: Four Eternal Women: Toni Wolff Revisited – A Study in Opposites by Mary Dian Molton Toni Wolff, Structural Forms of the Feminine Psyche They might be referred to as the psychic forms of the m…

when something becomes automatic in the psyche an antecedent feeling-tone must be postulated.

when something becomes automatic in the psyche an antecedent feeling-tone must be postulated.: Psychogenesis of Mental Disease The strong feeling-tone, then, creates a path, which amounts to saying what we have already said about complexes. Every complex has a tendency to autonomy—to act its…

Saturday, June 26, 2021

Victor White’s Dream of January 22nd(?) 1945 related to Dr. Jung

Victor White’s Dream of January 22nd(?) 1945 related to Dr. Jung: Jung-White Letters Dream of January 22nd(?) 1945. PART 1. A group of elderly and ill-looking Dominicans are sitting on my right: it seems to be at Hawkesyard. One of them says that he is eight time…

Friday, June 25, 2021

In which underworld am I? It is dark and black as death! Everything deceives.

In which underworld am I? It is dark and black as death! Everything deceives.: The Black Books 26 Nov. 1913 In which underworld am I? It is dark and black as death! Everything deceives. “Don’t let yourself be distracted from what you have to do,” the voice s…

Wednesday, June 23, 2021

What am I going to write? Everything is dark in front of me.

What am I going to write? Everything is dark in front of me.: The Black Books   XII. 13. 183 What am I going to write? Everything is dark in front of me. No shape, no bright and no dark. It is the gate to darkness. Who enters there, must grope what is cl…

Emma Jung Correspondence with Katy Cabot

Emma Jung Correspondence with Katy Cabot: Jung My Mother and I On her return to Zurich, towards the end of October, Katy must have sent Emma Jung a book, rather than her customary gift of flowers. Mrs. Jung writes: Kusnacht-Zurich Seestras…

…so it was really Mrs. Crowley’s animus speaking through Mr. Crowley.

…so it was really Mrs. Crowley’s animus speaking through Mr. Crowley.: Jung My Mother and I by Jane Cabot Reid June 21, 1935 (Longest day) This interview was so astounding and so profound that I can hardly write about it for it has made the most tremendous impression …

Tuesday, June 22, 2021

With inner resistance I approach this book.

With inner resistance I approach this book.: The Black Books   Nov. 1913 61 With inner resistance I approach this book. I ceaselessly devalue it and yet something forces me to dive into it, actually into myself. Why?- It wants to follow …

Toni Wolff on the “Four Functions” and the “Animus”

Toni Wolff on the “Four Functions” and the “Animus”: Four Eternal Women: Toni Wolff Revisited – A Study in Opposites by Mary Dian Molton Similar to the four basic psychological functions, all the four structural forms are inherent to every woma…

Marion Woodman: I had gone to India in 1968, thinking I would find a teacher there.

Marion Woodman: I had gone to India in 1968, thinking I would find a teacher there.: Image: Marion Woodman Conscious Femininity by Marion Woodman A Meeting with Marion Woodman Pythia Peay: At the age of forty-five you made a sudden career shift, leaving your position as a hi…

Monday, June 21, 2021

The wonderful gift of your Psychologie u. Alchemie arrived safely this morning.

The wonderful gift of your Psychologie u. Alchemie arrived safely this morning.: Dear Professor Jung:                                                   16.11.45 The wonderful gift of your Psychologie u. Alchemie arrived safely this morning. I really do not know how to th…

Saturday, June 19, 2021

Emma Jung on the the hetaira (companion, friend), the Amazon and the medial woman.

Emma Jung on the the hetaira (companion, friend), the Amazon and the medial woman.: Structural Forms of the Feminine by Toni Wolff They might be referred to as the psychic forms of the mother and spouse, the hetaira (companion, friend), the Amazon and the medial woman. ~Toni Wolff…

Carl Jung Chronology of Events

Carl Jung Chronology of Events: The Cambridge Companion to Jung CHRONOLOGY Jung was a prolific writer, and the work listed in this chronological outline of his life is highly selective. The majority are articles that first appear…

Marion Woodman Quotations from Pythia Peay Interview in Conscious Femininity

Marion Woodman Quotations from Pythia Peay Interview in Conscious Femininity: Conscious Femininity by Marion Woodman It seems to me that to receive a penis there has to be a really profound sense of who you are, in order to allow yourself to be penetrated by another human be…

Friday, June 18, 2021

Review of Paul Bishop. Ludwig Klages and the Philosophy of Life. A Vitalist Toolkit.

Review of Paul Bishop. Ludwig Klages and the Philosophy of Life. A Vitalist Toolkit.: Phanes Volume 1 – 2018 He who seeks shall find, but only after he has surrendered his being to the guidance of the gods. L. Klages (RR, p. 253) Hermann Hesse felt so ‘deeply moved’ by the psy…

You are invited to a Zoom webinar w/Robert F. Mannis June 19, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. EST

You are invited to a Zoom webinar w/Robert F. Mannis June 19, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. EST: Ars Nova with Robert F. Mannis You are invited to a Zoom webinar. Date Time: Jun 19, 2021 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Topic: Ars Nova: Understanding the Alchemical Mystery in the Age of A…

Jungian Analyst Marion Woodman on the American Psyche

Jungian Analyst Marion Woodman on the American Psyche: Jungian Analyst Marion Woodman on the American Psyche by Pythia Peay Twenty-three years ago, I began interviewing psychologists and psychoanalysts for their insights into the American psyche, a pro…

Thursday, June 17, 2021

Together the patient and I address ourselves to the 2,000,000-year-old man that is in all of us.

Together the patient and I address ourselves to the 2,000,000-year-old man that is in all of us.: Carl Jung in New York Times Together the patient and I address ourselves to the 2,000,000-year-old man that is in all of us. In the last analysis, most of our difficulties come from losing contact …

Marion Woodman on Jungian Analysis, Eating Disorders and the ‘Great Work’ by Pythia Peay

Marion Woodman on Jungian Analysis, Eating Disorders and the ‘Great Work’ by Pythia Peay: Image: Marion Woodman Jungian Analysis, Eating Disorders and the ‘Great Work’ by Pythia Peay Jungian Analysis, Eating Disorders and the ‘Great Work’ The more you work with y…

Carl Jung Interprets Katy Cabot’s Dream about Toni Wolff

Carl Jung Interprets Katy Cabot’s Dream about Toni Wolff: Jung My Mother and I Then  [Katy Cabot] told Onkel a dream I had: Toni was giving a sort of class lecture in Charleston, West Virginia. She stood behind a curtain which was only half …

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Carl Jung on “Incubation” – Anthology

Carl Jung on “Incubation” – Anthology: Carl Jung on “Incubation.” It is the custom of the ancients, the tradition of the ancestors, observed since days of old. It is to be adapted for new use. It is practice and incubation in a smelter,…

Carl Jung Quotations from the “Jung-Hisamatsu Conversation.”

Carl Jung Quotations from the “Jung-Hisamatsu Conversation.”: Jung-Hisamatsu Conversation That is possible, but you must bear in mind that Zen is a philosophy and that I am a psychologist. ~Carl Jung, Jung-Hisamatsu Conversation, Page 1 It is the unknown that…

Carl Jung Quotations Visual Presentations from Jung Society of Washington D.C.

Carl Jung Quotations Visual Presentations from Jung Society of Washington D.C.

Monday, June 14, 2021

As one might expect on theoretical grounds, these impish complexes are unteachable.

As one might expect on theoretical grounds, these impish complexes are unteachable.: Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche We have to thank the French psychopathologists, Pierre Janet in particular, for our knowledge today of the extreme dissociability of consciousness. Janet and Mo…

The Composition of Liber Novus

The Composition of Liber Novus: Black Books The Composition of Liber Novus The outbreak of the war had given Jung a completely new understanding of his fantasies . In Liber Novus, he wrote: “And then the War broke ou…

Sunday, June 13, 2021

Carl Jung: They are now handing on the rumour that I am a Nazi.

Carl Jung: They are now handing on the rumour that I am a Nazi.: Jung-White Letters A small book, “Aufsatze zur Zeitgeschichte is about to appear and another book, “Psychologie der -Obertragung”13 is with the printer. In this book I try to demo…

Jung referred to Toni Wolff’s discussion of the scientific status of complex psychology in her 1935 paper,

Jung referred to Toni Wolff’s discussion of the scientific status of complex psychology in her 1935 paper,: Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology The Dream of a Science It is important then to grasp that Jung’s work on psychological types represented the summation of collective research. Jung’s pupil …

Saturday, June 12, 2021

Carl Jung: Evil? I thought too little about evil. Evil exists, too.

Carl Jung: Evil? I thought too little about evil. Evil exists, too.: Black Books I saw an image-a terrible image: A gloomy vault-the floor consists of damp stone slabs-in the middle there is a high stake-from which ropes and axes hang. At the foot of the stake there…

Gnostic Symbols of the Self

Gnostic Symbols of the Self: Aion Since all cognition is akin to recognition, it should not come as a surprise to find that what I have described as a gradual process of development had already been anticipated, and mor…

Friday, June 11, 2021

Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Life, Work and Legacy of Carl Jung

The Priest, The Psychiatrist and The Problem of Evil

The Priest, The Psychiatrist and The Problem of Evil: Phanes Volume 2 -2019 God has turned me over to the ungodly and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked. All was well with me, but he shattered me; he seized me by the neck and crushed me.…

The Way to the Self

The Way to the Self: The Way to the Self In 1918, Jung wrote a paper entitled “On the unconscious,” where he noted that all of us stood between two worlds: the world of external perception and the world of perce…

Thursday, June 10, 2021

Victor White: “Jung on Job”

Victor White: “Jung on Job”: Jung-White Letters If ever there were grist for the Jungian mill it was, one might suppose, the Book of Job. It can be read almost as a paradigm of the ‘integration process’ as Jung him…

Wednesday, June 9, 2021

We still go on thinking and acting as before, as if we were simplex and not duplex.

We still go on thinking and acting as before, as if we were simplex and not duplex.: Undiscovered Self Our rational philosophy does not bother itself with whether the other person in us, pejoratively described as the “shadow,” is in sympathy with our conscious plans and intentions.…

Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Jung and religion: the opposing self. Why Jung on religion? by Ann Belford Ulanov

Jung and religion: the opposing self. Why Jung on religion? by Ann Belford Ulanov: The Cambridge Companion to Jung Jung noted that for centuries the symbols, rituals, and dogmas of religions, east and west, gathered the psychic energy of individuals and nations alike into …

Victor White: For Jung deliberately reads the Scriptures through a pair of highly distorted spectacles.

Victor White: For Jung deliberately reads the Scriptures through a pair of highly distorted spectacles.: Jung-White Letters … Generally speaking it [Answer to Job] cannot be read. For Jung deliberately reads the Scriptures through a pair of highly distorted spectacles. Although he is not writing of Go…

Monday, June 7, 2021

For Jung, mandalas occurred throughout the world in various religious traditions.

For Jung, mandalas occurred throughout the world in various religious traditions.: S.W. and C.G. Jung mediumship, psychiatry and serial exemplarity S.W. redivivus In 1907, in The Psychology of Dementia Praecox, Jung revisited the case, describing it now as one of hysteria. It was…

Sunday, June 6, 2021

“For All and None” Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, Jung’s The Red Book and “Visionary Works

“For All and None” Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, Jung’s The Red Book and “Visionary Works: NIETZSCHE’S ZARATHUSTRA, JUNG’S THE RED BOOK, AND “VISIONARY” WORKS

The immaturity of man is a fact that must enter into all our calculations.

The immaturity of man is a fact that must enter into all our calculations.: Practice of Psychotherapy Moreover, the common weal is best served by independent personalities. Whether man today possesses the maturity needed for such a decision is another question. On the othe…

In the case of Toni Wolff, Neumann was less willing to excuse her behavior.

In the case of Toni Wolff, Neumann was less willing to excuse her behavior.: Jung-Neumann Letters   Wolff’s letter is missing. Neumann replied to her writing that her letter had triggered “a prompt and so sharp a reaction […] that I thought it better to hold back my re…

Here we have a portrayal of the zodiacal signs through which the point of the vernal equinox went in historical times.

Here we have a portrayal of the zodiacal signs through which the point of the vernal equinox went in historical times.: Children’s Dreams Seminars Professor Jung: Yes, he could still be devoured by this giant snake, but the herb he can eat himself. This magic herb also plays a role in the Epic of Gilgam…

Saturday, June 5, 2021

My mother suddenly steps back and says, “there’s one!” Namely a ghost.

My mother suddenly steps back and says, “there’s one!” Namely a ghost.: Black Books 16/17- Aug. 19. Dreamt in Schmerikon: with my mother and many other unknown people in an unknown street. There are 2 houses to the right, old dilapidated shacks, whose facade is complet…

Friday, June 4, 2021

You must let Toni go until she has found herself and is no longer a burden to you.

You must let Toni go until she has found herself and is no longer a burden to you.: Black Books I. 22. [I]. Here I am again. Speak, Oh my soul! S. You have done your task for the day. Don’t drink too much wine. Don’t eat too much. Be moderate, since great work awaits y…

Thursday, June 3, 2021

Negotiations with the Animus

Negotiations with the Animus: The Inner Journey by Barbara Hannah Negotiations with the Animus This brings us to a way of coming to terms with the animus, which is similar to the method Jung recommends to men for coming to term…

Tuesday, June 1, 2021

The Problem of Contact with Animus

The Problem of Contact with Animus: The Inner Journey by Barbara Hannah   The Problem of Contact with Animus  (February 16, 1951) One often hears the complaint, even from people who have been studying Jungian psychology for year…