Thursday, March 31, 2022

‘Psychic reality” is a controversial concept, like “psyche” or “mind.”

‘Psychic reality” is a controversial concept, like “psyche” or “mind.”: Psychology and Religion CW 11  ‘Psychic reality” is a controversial concept, like “psyche” or “mind.” By the latter terms some understand consciousness and its c…

Carl Jung on “Consciousness.” Lexicon

Carl Jung on “Consciousness.” Lexicon: Carl Jung Lexicon NYAAP Carl Jung on “Consciousness.” Lexicon Consciousness: The function or activity which maintains the relation of psychic contents to the ego; distinguished conceptually …

Carl Jung on the “Creative Impulse.”

Carl Jung on the “Creative Impulse.”: You cannot put something on a table which is already laden; you must first clear those things away in order to put new ones in theirplace.And to build a house where an old house stands, you must firs…

Carl Jung: Psyche cannot be totally different from matter, for how otherwise could it move matter?

Carl Jung: Psyche cannot be totally different from matter, for how otherwise could it move matter?: [“Matter” comes from the root word “Mater” or “Mother” and is ultimately the “Great Mother” which gives form to all of Creation and consequently has …

Carl Jung: Doors of iron, walls of stone, cold darkness and the rations of penance-that is the bliss of redemption.

Carl Jung: Doors of iron, walls of stone, cold darkness and the rations of penance-that is the bliss of redemption.: Black Books Of course, here I have peace and can collect myself. Your human world makes me drunk so much human blood-I could get intoxicated on it to the point of madness. Doors of iron, walls of s…

Carl Jung: …I believe that misery is an intrinsic part of human life, without which we could never do anything.

Carl Jung: …I believe that misery is an intrinsic part of human life, without which we could never do anything.: Letters of C. G. Jung: Volume I, 1906-1950 (Vol 1) To V. Subrahamanya Iyer Dear Sir, 16 September 1937 I quite agree with you that it is a noble pursuit for any philosophy to seek a way to h…

Marie-Louise Von Franz: Dreams give the Naskapi complete ability to find his way in life

Marie-Louise Von Franz: Dreams give the Naskapi complete ability to find his way in life: Man and His Symbols This inner center is realized in exceptionally pure, unspoiled form by the Naskapi Indians, who still exist in the forests of the Labrador peninsula. These simple people …

The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding…

The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding…: Undiscovered Self Nothing has a more divisive and alienating effect upon society than this moral complacency and lack of responsibility, and nothing promotes understanding and rapprochement more th…

Foreword to Froboese-Thiele: “Dreams—a Source of Religious Experience?”

Foreword to Froboese-Thiele: “Dreams—a Source of Religious Experience?”: The Symbolic Life: Miscellaneous Writings (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 18) This book has the merit of being the first to investigate how the unconscious of Protestants behaves …

Number and Time by Marie Louise von Franz

Number and Time by Marie Louise von Franz: Number and Time     \Marie-Louise von Franz, Number and Time SELECTIONS “In the final analysis the idea of an unus mundus [one world…

Dr. Carl Gustav Jung, one of the founders of psychiatry, tells: “WHY I BELIEVE IN GOD”

Dr. Carl Gustav Jung, one of the founders of psychiatry, tells: “WHY I BELIEVE IN GOD”: Good Housekeeping June 1961 In a memorable interview, the late Dr. Carl Gustav Jung, one of the founders of psychiatry, tells: “WHY I BELIEVE IN GOD” On June 2, 1961. journalist Frederi…

A Pictorial Guide to The Red Book

A Pictorial Guide to The Red Book: A Pictoral Guide to The Red Book The link below will take you to a page where at the top will be found: “A Pictorial Guide to The Red Book: An excerpt from A Pictorial Guide to The Red…

Passages from a Gnostic Hymn and “The Red Book”

Passages from a Gnostic Hymn and “The Red Book”: The Red Book [Passages from a Gnostic Hymn and “The Red Book.] My soul, O most splendid one,…whither has thou gone? Return again. Awake, soul of splendor, form the slumber of drunkenness into which…

If a man is lost in the desert or quite alone on a glacier…

If a man is lost in the desert or quite alone on a glacier…: Symbolic Life CW 18 In the case of psychological suffering, which always isolates the individual from the herd of so-called normal people, it is also of the greatest importance to understand…

Carl Jung: Nobody can set right a mismanaged life with a few words.

Carl Jung: Nobody can set right a mismanaged life with a few words.: C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 Dear Herr N., 20 February 1934 Nobody can set right a mismanaged life with a few words. But there is no pit you cannot climb out of provided you make the…

Carl Jung on “Classification by Type.” – Anthology

Carl Jung on “Classification by Type.” – Anthology: The classification of individuals [By Type] means nothing at all. It is only the instrumentality, or what I call “practical psychology,” used to explain, for instance, the husband to a …

Carl Jung and “Memories, Dreams, and Reflections” – Quotations

Carl Jung and “Memories, Dreams, and Reflections” – Quotations: Carl Jung and “Memories, Dreams and Reflections’ – YouTube   Carl Jung: Memories, Dreams and Reflections To Western man, the meaninglessness of a merely static univers…

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Carl Jung on why we experience a “lack of dreams.”

Carl Jung on why we experience a “lack of dreams.”: Letters Volume II To J.O. Pearson Dear Dr. Pearson, 29 August 1959 The lack of dreams has different reasons: the ordinary reason is that one is not interested in the mental life within and o…

Carl Jung: Since the death of my mother, the A. [Anima] has fallen silent. Meaningful!

Carl Jung: Since the death of my mother, the A. [Anima] has fallen silent. Meaningful!: Black Books A critical chapter in Jung’s self-experimentation was what he termed the integration of the anima. Toni Wolff saw this as one side of the story, as it also involved the process by…

Madness in not to be despised…~Carl Jung

Madness in not to be despised…~Carl Jung: The Red Book (Philemon) Goya’s Madhouse, 1812-1819 My soul spoke to me in a whisper, urgently and alarmingly: “Words, words, do not make too many words. Be silent a…

Man shall differentiate himself both from spirituality and sexuality.

Man shall differentiate himself both from spirituality and sexuality.: The Red Book “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, a…

Every creative person is a duality …

Every creative person is a duality …: Modern Man in Search of a Soul From Modern Man in Search of a Soul: “Every creative person is a duality or a synthesis of contradictory aptitudes. On the one side he is a human being with a p…

Recent research dates the Yoga Sûtra between 325 and 425 CE.

Recent research dates the Yoga Sûtra between 325 and 425 CE.: Psychology of Yoga and Meditation Patañjali, who wrote the Yoga Sûtra, is sometimes referred to as the author of Mahâbhâshya (Sanskrit for great commentary), a commentary on Panini’s grammar Astadh…

Carl Jung Foreword to a Catalogue on Alchemy

Carl Jung Foreword to a Catalogue on Alchemy: Symbolic Life Alchemy is the forerunner or even the ancestor of chemistry, and is therefore of historical interest to the student of chemistry, in so far as it can be proved to contain recognizable…

Her surrender to the Self sustained her immense energy, physically and spiritually.

Her surrender to the Self sustained her immense energy, physically and spiritually.: The Inner Journey by Barbara Hannah Foreword by Marion Woodman Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit …

Marie Louise Von Franz and "The Cat: A Tale of Feminine Redemption

Marie Louise Von Franz and "The Cat: A Tale of Feminine Redemption: The Cat Marie Louise Von Franz and The Cat: A Tale of Feminine Redemption – When we first approach the unconscious, it is a hard nut for us to crack. We can’t penetrate it, we don’t understan…

Emma Jung Correspondence with Katy Cabot

Emma Jung Correspondence with Katy Cabot: Jung My Mother and I Emma Jung to Katy Cabot September 25, 1929 Emma to Katy: Dr. Jung is actually absent and will come back on Sunday or Monday to resume work. I am not quite sure if he will be ab…

Carl Jung’s Acknowledgements of the Work of Sabina Spielrein [Partial Listing]

Carl Jung’s Acknowledgements of the Work of Sabina Spielrein [Partial Listing]: Dr. Jung wrote the following: Your thinking is bold, far-reaching, and philosophical. ~Carl Jung to Sabina Spielrein, August 8, 1911. Your study is extraordinarily intelligent and contains splendid…

Carl Jung’s Acknowledgements of the Work of Sabina Spielrein [Partial Listing]

Carl Jung’s Acknowledgements of the Work of Sabina Spielrein [Partial Listing]: Dr. Jung wrote the following: Your thinking is bold, far-reaching, and philosophical. ~Carl Jung to Sabina Spielrein, August 8, 1911. Your study is extraordinarily intelligent and contains splendid…

Toni Wolff: Zarathustra has just preached that man ought to grow beyond himself into the Superman.

Toni Wolff: Zarathustra has just preached that man ought to grow beyond himself into the Superman.: Zarathustra Seminars What I meant to say is that Nietzsche, in as far as he identifies with Zarathustra, is a rope-dancer. Zarathustra has just preached that man ought to grow beyond himself into t…

Aniela Jaffe on Carl Jung and Parapsychology: Experience and Theory Occultism and Spiritualism

Aniela Jaffe on Carl Jung and Parapsychology: Experience and Theory Occultism and Spiritualism: From the Life and Work of C.G. Jung Parapsychology: Experience and Theory Occultism and Spiritualism To Carl Gustav Jung parapsychology was more than a subject for scientific research, experiment, …

Darkness in The Red Book – Anthology

Darkness in The Red Book – Anthology: [Darkness in The Red Book][Antholoogy] When I comprehended my darkness, a truly magnificent night came over me and my dream plunged me into the depths of the millennia, and rom my phoenix as…

Carl Jung on “William Blake” – Quotations

Carl Jung on “William Blake” – Quotations: I find Blake a tantalizing study, since he has compiled a lot of half- or undigested knowledge in his fantasies. According to my idea, they are an artistic production rather than an authenti…

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Search Results for “sexuality” – Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Search Results for “sexuality” – Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books.

Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books.: letters Vol. II To Dr. S. Dear Colleague, 8 October 1947 I gather from your description that you are indeed climbing too high. Sanskrit and India really are a bit much. You must turn back to the si…

In his own time, Meister Eckhart performed the same role.

In his own time, Meister Eckhart performed the same role.: Jung and Hermann Hesse   I then told Jung that I thought that in his own being he represented a link with the secrets of the past. ‘You have found the connecting road, the path which was…

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…

At present, we are in the Kâli yuga. We have a bad prognosis.

At present, we are in the Kâli yuga. We have a bad prognosis.: Psychology of Yoga and Meditation A kalpa is an infinitely long series of world ages, each one being 2000 mahâyugas. A mahâyuga is 360 normal yugas. Every few hundred years at the beginning, and a …

At present, we are in the Kâli yuga. We have a bad prognosis.

At present, we are in the Kâli yuga. We have a bad prognosis.: Psychology of Yoga and Meditation A kalpa is an infinitely long series of world ages, each one being 2000 mahâyugas. A mahâyuga is 360 normal yugas. Every few hundred years at the beginning, and a …

Excerpts from “Psychological Types” from Meister Eckhart.

Excerpts from “Psychological Types” from Meister Eckhart.: Psychological Types [Excerpts from “Psychological Types” from Meister Eckhart. Dr. Jung’s surrounding text is quite illuminating. It is also of value to read these passages in connection with Dr. J…

Good and evil unite in the growth of the tree. In their divinity life and love stand opposed.

Good and evil unite in the growth of the tree. In their divinity life and love stand opposed.: The Red Book: A Reader’s Edition (Philemon) “The Sun God is…

The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding…

The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding…: Undiscovered Self Nothing has a more divisive and alienating effect upon society than this moral complacency and lack of responsibility, and nothing promotes understanding and rapprochement more th…

Carl Jung Quotations from the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

Carl Jung Quotations from the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: Psychology of Yoga and Meditation Jung quotes the German translation of Patañjali’s by Paul Deussen (1908), in the following abbreviated as YSD. On Jung and the German translations of the Yoga Sûtr…

Monday, March 28, 2022

Carl Jung: I have given a good deal of attention to two great initiators: Joyce and Picasso.

Carl Jung: I have given a good deal of attention to two great initiators: Joyce and Picasso.: Letters of C. G. Jung: Volume 2, 1951-1961 To Herbert Read Dear Sir Herbert, 2 September 1960 I have just read the words of a Man, that is, the statement of your views about m y work. Courag…

Carl Jung: They are the repositories of the secrets of the soul, and this matchless knowledge is set forth in grand symbolical images.

Carl Jung: They are the repositories of the secrets of the soul, and this matchless knowledge is set forth in grand symbolical images.: The Practice of Psychotherapy: Essays on the Psychology of the Transference and Other Subjects (Bollingen Series) If, as many are fain to believe, the unconscious were only nefarious, only evil, th…

Is there any trickery on earth which could have prevented Mozart or Beethoven from creating?

Is there any trickery on earth which could have prevented Mozart or Beethoven from creating?: Development of Personality Prematurely conceived theories are not without their dangers. Thus the theory of repression, whose validity in a definite field of pathology is incontestable—up to the po…

Carl Jung on the Pyramids, Death and Resurrection.

Carl Jung on the Pyramids, Death and Resurrection.: Children’s Dreams: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1940 Then the dreamer sees the pyramids. The symbol of the pyramid we are most familiar with is that in the Egyptian cultural en…

Carl Jung and the Assumption and Coronation of Mary

Carl Jung and the Assumption and Coronation of Mary: Mysterium Coniunctionis Assumption and Coronation of Mary The dogmatization of the Assumptio Mariae points to the hieros gamos in the pleroma, and this in turn implies . . . the future birth of the…

The principium individuation is is a notion from the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer.

The principium individuation is is a notion from the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer.: Black Books The principium individuation is is a notion from the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer. He defined it as space and time, noting that he had borrowed the expression from scholasticism. T…

Emma Jung, Marie Louise Von Franz and The Holy Grail

Emma Jung, Marie Louise Von Franz and The Holy Grail: The Grail Legend by Emma Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz by Van Waddy Carl Jung remained faithful to his wife Emma in one way only serious scholars can understand: He promised never to talk …

Carl Jung on “Kleshas” “Karma” “Ramakrishna” “Patanjali Sutras”

Carl Jung on “Kleshas” “Karma” “Ramakrishna” “Patanjali Sutras”: Psychology of Yoga and Meditation The kleshas are karma, a highly remarkable concept. It describes the disposition that we take with us into life, which causes us to live out a certain meaning, in …

We could call sexuality the spokesman of the instincts,

We could call sexuality the spokesman of the instincts,: Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche CW 8 The conflict between ethics and sex today is not just a collision between instinctuality and morality, but a struggle to give an instinct its rightful plac…

Carl Jung on the Spirituality of the Tree

Carl Jung on the Spirituality of the Tree: Zarathustra Seminars [Carl Jung on the Spirituality of the Tree] Mrs. Baumann: I thought it was very interesting that in the prehistoric mythology of the island of Crete, of which practicall…

Carl Jung on the Spirituality of the Tree

Carl Jung on the Spirituality of the Tree: Zarathustra Seminars [Carl Jung on the Spirituality of the Tree] Mrs. Baumann: I thought it was very interesting that in the prehistoric mythology of the island of Crete, of which practicall…

Meg Wilbur – Marion Woodman and Embodied Life

Meg Wilbur – Marion Woodman and Embodied Life: Meg Wilbur – Marion Woodman and Embodied Life Marion Woodman: An Embodied Life by Meg Wilbur Marion Woodman, internationally recognized author and speaker, died in July 2018 at the ag…

Sunday, March 27, 2022

Carl Jung: I was enchanted by this sight-it was a picture of something utterly alien and outside my experience,

Carl Jung: I was enchanted by this sight-it was a picture of something utterly alien and outside my experience,: Jung’s Last Years Twenty-five years later, when Jung wass in Central Africa, he was reminded of those experiments by a typical chain of associations. On the train journey from Mombassa to Nai…

The Black Books: Toward a Visionary Science: Jung’s Notebooks of Transformation – Prelude

The Black Books: Toward a Visionary Science: Jung’s Notebooks of Transformation – Prelude: the Black Books Toward a Visionary Science: Jung’s Notebooks of Transformation ~Sonu Shamdasani Prelude In 1935, Jung said: “A point exists at about the thirty-fifth year when things be…

Sonu Shamdasani: Introduction to Analytical Psychology: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1925

Sonu Shamdasani: Introduction to Analytical Psychology: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1925: Introduction to Jungian Psychology: Notes of the Seminar on Analytical Psychology Given in 1925 (Philemon Foundation Series) Introduction Sonu Shamdasani March 24, 1925, Zurich. Cary …

Marie-Louise Von Franz: Dreams give the Naskapi complete ability to find his way in life

Marie-Louise Von Franz: Dreams give the Naskapi complete ability to find his way in life: Man and His Symbols This inner center is realized in exceptionally pure, unspoiled form by the Naskapi Indians, who still exist in the forests of the Labrador peninsula. These simple people …

Carl Jung on “Hell,” “Lucifer,” “Satan,” and the “Devil” – Anthology

Carl Jung on “Hell,” “Lucifer,” “Satan,” and the “Devil” – Anthology: Great is the power of the way. In it Heaven and Hell grow together, and in it the power of the Below and the power of the Above unite. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 308.My I, you are a barbarian. …

Marie-Louise Von Franz Foreword to “Jung on Politics”

Marie-Louise Von Franz Foreword to “Jung on Politics”: Jung and Politics Having known Professor C. G. Jung during the last twenty-eight years of his life, I found it strange to be asked to write a foreword to a book on his political ideas, for his prim…

Through the containment of the drives the outflow is suppressed,

Through the containment of the drives the outflow is suppressed,: Psychology of Yoga and Meditation Through the containment of the drives the outflow is suppressed, the eye is turned away from the world. One differentiates oneself from one’s own desire for …

Belief is no adequate substitute for inner experience…

Belief is no adequate substitute for inner experience…: “Belief is no adequate substitute for inner experience, and where this is absent even a strong faith which came miraculously as a gift of grace may depart equally miraculously. People call fa…

Belief is no adequate substitute for inner experience…

Belief is no adequate substitute for inner experience…: “Belief is no adequate substitute for inner experience, and where this is absent even a strong faith which came miraculously as a gift of grace may depart equally miraculously. People call fa…

Carl Jung Depth Psychology

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

Saturday, March 26, 2022

On Divination and Synchronicity by Marie Louise Von Franz.

On Divination and Synchronicity by Marie Louise Von Franz.: On Divination and Synchronicity: The Psychology of Meaningful Chance (Studies in Jungian Psychology) On Divination and Synchronicity : The Psychology of Meaningful Chance Studies in Jungian …

Jung and William Blake

Jung and William Blake: Jung and Blake Government Exhibet Jung and William Blake Experts have noted similarities between the way Jung integrated texts and illustrations in the Red Book and the work of British poet,…

The dichotomy of God into divinity and humanity

The dichotomy of God into divinity and humanity: Psychology and Religion: West and East (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 11)…

Thus the dream says that the soul of my mother was taken into that greater territory of the self

Thus the dream says that the soul of my mother was taken into that greater territory of the self: Black Books Tuesday. In Memories, Jung recalled concerning his mother’s death: “I was deeply shaken, for it had come with unexpected suddenness.  The night before her death I had a frig…

Thus the dream says that the soul of my mother was taken into that greater territory of the self

Thus the dream says that the soul of my mother was taken into that greater territory of the self: Black Books Tuesday. In Memories, Jung recalled concerning his mother’s death: “I was deeply shaken, for it had come with unexpected suddenness.  The night before her death I had a frig…

The web of destiny really is the fabric of one’s unconscious fantasies.

The web of destiny really is the fabric of one’s unconscious fantasies.: The Cat: A Tale of Feminine Redemption by Marie-Louise Von Franz The web of destiny really is the fabric of one’s unconscious fantasies. You see that for instance when people in analysis comp…

The Mass as an Act of High Magic

The Mass as an Act of High Magic: That great modern representative of the Gnosis, C.G. Jung, had a great interest in the Christian sacraments, particularly in the Mass. He repeatedly stated that he considered Catholicism a far more…

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

Carl Jung: I have as little need to convince myself of how good the Catholic Church is for very many people.: letters Vol. II 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 an…

Dr. Jung considered the Mass of the Church to be the equivalent of a "Rite of Individuation."

Dr. Jung considered the Mass of the Church to be the equivalent of a "Rite of Individuation.": Psychology and Religion [Dr. Jung considered the Mass of the Church to be the equivalent of a “Rite of Individuation.” In the passage below from “Psychology and Religion” I …

Marie Louise Von Franz and "The Realization of the Shadow."

Marie Louise Von Franz and "The Realization of the Shadow.": Marie Louise Von Franz and “The Realization of the Shadow.” The Shadow is not the whole of the unconscious personality. It represents unknown or little known attributes and qualities of…

Therefore in the man it is usually connected with the likewise unconscious anima.

Therefore in the man it is usually connected with the likewise unconscious anima.: Animus and Anima by Emma Jung The princess to be redeemed, appearing in so many fairy tales, clearly points to the anima. Since, however, the story shows that the princess was there before the swan…

The overflow of the unconscious falls into too narrow a vessel.

The overflow of the unconscious falls into too narrow a vessel.: The Feminine in Fairy Tales by Marie-Louise Von Franz Most human difficulties, including neurotic and psychotic dissociation, are linked with an ego that is not functioning in accordance with the t…

Whoever speaks in primordial images speaks with a thousand voices;

Whoever speaks in primordial images speaks with a thousand voices;: Spirit in Man, Art, Literature The impact of an archetype, whether it takes the form of immediate experience or is expressed through the spoken word, stirs us because it summons up a voice that is …

Marion Woodman – The Stillness Shall Be the Dancing: Feminine and Masculine in Emerging Balance.

Marion Woodman – The Stillness Shall Be the Dancing: Feminine and Masculine in Emerging Balance.: Journal of Analytical Psychology, 2010, 55, 300–312 WOODMAN, MARION. The Stillness Shall Be the Dancing: Feminine and Masculine in Emerging Balance. (No. 4, Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analyti…

Friday, March 25, 2022

Carl Jung: “Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakes.”

Carl Jung: “Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakes.”: C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 To Fanny Bowditch Dear Miss Bowditch, 22 October 1916 It is understandable that, as long as you look at other people and project your own psychology into them, …

Carl Jung’s Preface to “The Discourses of the Buddha”

Carl Jung’s Preface to “The Discourses of the Buddha”: 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 pr…

Carl Jung: “On Pictures in Psychiatric Diagnosis”

Carl Jung: “On Pictures in Psychiatric Diagnosis”: Symbolic Life Carl Jung: “On Pictures in Psychiatric Diagnosis” The case that you lay before me presents every ground for thinking of latent schizophrenia. This diagnosis is confirmed by the pictur…

Jungs Alleged Madness From Mythopoeia to Mythologisation

Jungs Alleged Madness From Mythopoeia to Mythologisation: Phanes Volume 2 -2019 October 1913. Jung is thirty-eight years old and has acquired an international scientific reputation for his psychiatric work, which particularly focuses on psychosis. He has …

Carl Jung: Doors of iron, walls of stone, cold darkness and the rations of penance-that is the bliss of redemption.

Carl Jung: Doors of iron, walls of stone, cold darkness and the rations of penance-that is the bliss of redemption.: Black Books Of course, here I have peace and can collect myself. Your human world makes me drunk so much human blood-I could get intoxicated on it to the point of madness. Doors of iron, walls of s…

Light of the middle way, enclosed in the egg,

Light of the middle way, enclosed in the egg,: Red Book light of the middle way, enclosed in the egg, embryonic, full or ardor, oppressed. Fully expectant, dreamlike, awaiting lost memories. As heavy as stone, hardened. Molten, transparent. Str…

Carl Jung Depth Psychology

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

Thursday, March 24, 2022

Toni Wolff: An immediate cause of death would look to me as coming from the ego complex.

Toni Wolff: An immediate cause of death would look to me as coming from the ego complex.: Zarathustra Seminars Miss Wolff: Was not the question rather whether there were causes extraneous to the self that could cause death? Could you not take for example certain cases of suicide or acci…

Mysterium Coniunctionis – Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Mysterium Coniunctionis – Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Eva Rider – Reclaiming the Soul

Eva Rider – Reclaiming the Soul: Eva Rider – Reclaiming the Soul “…as far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being…” C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, …

An Excerpt from ”The Boundless Expanse: Jung’s Reflections on Death and Life” by Sonu Shamdasani

An Excerpt from ”The Boundless Expanse: Jung’s Reflections on Death and Life” by Sonu Shamdasani: Sonu Shamdasani – The Boundless Expanse [An Excerpt from ”The Boundless Expanse: Jung’s Reflections on Death and Life” by Sonu Shamdasani] Jung’s lectures before the Zofingia society al…

An Excerpt from ”The Boundless Expanse: Jung’s Reflections on Death and Life” by Sonu Shamdasani

An Excerpt from ”The Boundless Expanse: Jung’s Reflections on Death and Life” by Sonu Shamdasani: Sonu Shamdasani – The Boundless Expanse [An Excerpt from ”The Boundless Expanse: Jung’s Reflections on Death and Life” by Sonu Shamdasani] Jung’s lectures before the Zofingia society al…

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

Carl Jung: While I was there I sketched every morning in a notebook a small circular drawing, a mandala: Memories Dreams Reflections 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 Commandan…

Washington Backup

Washington Backup: 002 What is particularly noteworthy here is the consistent development of the central symbol. We can hardly escape the feeling that the unconscious process moves spiral-wise round a centre, gradual…

Jung seemed to dislike all the adoration going on around him,

Jung seemed to dislike all the adoration going on around him,: Who Owns Jung by Ann Casement Yet there came the day when Jung himself in flesh and blood appeared at the Institute because he wanted to be in discussion with candidates. Beforehand candidates had …

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

A person sinks into his childhood memories and vanishes from the existing world.

A person sinks into his childhood memories and vanishes from the existing world.: Symbols of Transformation CW 5 These words show that the libido has now sunk to a depth where “the danger is great” (Faust, “The Mothers”). There God is near, there man woul…

Disagreement functions as a vehicle of mental life in society,

Disagreement functions as a vehicle of mental life in society,: Man and His Symbols Disagreement functions as a vehicle of mental life in society, but it is not a goal; agreement  is equally important. Because psychology basically depends upon balanced opposite…

I just sent a card to Stephen Hoeller to thank him,…

I just sent a card to Stephen Hoeller to thank him,…: About Franz: Remembering C. G. Jung-A Son’s Story Between Christmas and New Year, I had a book, The Gnostic Jung by Stephen Hoeller sent to me on your initiative. I had heard of it earlier, b…

Monday, March 21, 2022

Carl Jung’s “School Years”

Carl Jung’s “School Years”: School Years   My eleventh year was significant for me in another way, as I was then sent to the Gymnasium in Basel. Thus I was taken away from my rustic playmates, and truly entered the &#822…

Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.: Modern Man in Search of a Soul It might be supposed that it is easy for the doctor to show understanding in this respect. But people forget that even doctors have moral scruples, and that certain p…

Emma Jung: The guilt of knowledge is only one-sided. Its necessary counterpart is sexuality.

Emma Jung: The guilt of knowledge is only one-sided. Its necessary counterpart is sexuality.: Black Books Sunday. The previous evening, Emma Jung presented “On guilt” to the Association for Analytical Psychology. She commented on guilt in Christianity, noting, “The guilt o…

Marie-Louise von Franz  Confrontation with the Collective Unconscious

Marie-Louise von Franz  Confrontation with the Collective Unconscious: Image: Odilon Redon, Hantise (Haunting), 1893–94. Lithograph, 36.1 × 22.8 cm. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1955. Accessi…

Carl Jung on “Hell,” “Lucifer,” “Satan,” and the “Devil” – Anthology

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Art and the Zürich School: Red Book Art and the Zürich School Jung’s library today contains few books on modern art, though some books were probably dispersed over the years. He possessed a catalogue of the graphic works of …

A Discussion of: The deeper self: an expanded view of consciousness

A Discussion of: The deeper self: an expanded view of consciousness: Unlocking the Unconscious Exploring the Undiscovered Self COMMENTARY The deeper self: an expanded view of consciousness Steve Paulson,1 Siri Hustvedt,2 Mark Solms,3 and Sonu Shamdasani4 1Wisconsin …

for instance, speaks to Nicodemus of spirit and water, these are not just random ideas,

for instance, speaks to Nicodemus of spirit and water, these are not just random ideas,: Symbols of Transformation The instincts operate most smoothly when there is no consciousness to conflict with them, or when what consciousness there is remains firmly attached to instinct. This con…

Saturday, March 12, 2022

Carl Jung “On Creative Achievement”

Carl Jung “On Creative Achievement”: C. G. Jung Speaking: Interviews and Encounters (Bollingen Series XCVII) Introduction: Emil A. Fischer undertook to interview twenty Swiss men and women prominent in cultural life, and he pub…

When animus and anima meet

When animus and anima meet: Aion This singular fact is due to the following circumstance: when animus and anima meet, the animus draws his sword of power and the anima ejects her poison of illusion and seduction. The o…

Carl Jung: Ennoia = “thinking mind, knowledge, insight”: a way to reach higher consciousness.

Carl Jung: Ennoia = “thinking mind, knowledge, insight”: a way to reach higher consciousness.: Professor Jung: Exactly, we find this vessel of transformation in the writings of Zosimos, an alchemist of the third century a.d.70. It probably goes back to the fourth tract of the Corpus Hermetic…

Carl Jung: We make our own epoch.

Carl Jung: We make our own epoch.: Civilization in Transition When we look at human history, we see only what happens on the surface, and even this is distorted in the faded mirror of tradition. But what has really been happening el…

Aniela Jaffe: Pyramids are an expression of an archetypal image.

Aniela Jaffe: Pyramids are an expression of an archetypal image.: Children’s Dreams: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1940 (Philemon Foundation Series) “I see a pyramid in front of me”—no further details about its form or dimension are revealed. …

The Agathodaemon and the Afterlife

The Agathodaemon and the Afterlife: The Agathodaemon and Afterlife Roman marble sculpture of Agathodaemon restored with an unrelated head, as “Antinous Agathodaemon”…

Carl Jung, Emma Jung, Marie-Louise Von Franz. Barbara Hannah on “Animus” – Anthology

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Carl Jung: Something like a careful shaping of images, such as many patients paint or carve in wood or stone.

Carl Jung: Something like a careful shaping of images, such as many patients paint or carve in wood or stone.: Letters Volume I To Dr. S. Dear Colleague, 10 May 1938 In the confrontation with the unconscious there are indeed a considerable number of arid patches to be worked through. They cannot be circumve…

At present, we are in the Kâli yuga. We have a bad prognosis.

At present, we are in the Kâli yuga. We have a bad prognosis.: Psychology of Yoga and Meditation A kalpa is an infinitely long series of world ages, each one being 2000 mahâyugas. A mahâyuga is 360 normal yugas. Every few hundred years at the beginning, and a …

On Marion Woodman by Jean Kirsch

On Marion Woodman by Jean Kirsch: The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal (Volume 6, Number 3) On Marion Woodman Marion Woodman. The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation. Toronto. Inner City Bo…

Friday, March 11, 2022

Aniela Jaffe on C.G. Jung and Alchemy

Aniela Jaffe on C.G. Jung and Alchemy: From the Life and Work of C.G. Jung Alchemy Jung’s method of research was pre-eminently historical.   It consisted essentially in comparing his ideas and intuitions, and the insights he had ga…

Sonu Shamdasani interviewed by Ann Casement

Sonu Shamdasani interviewed by Ann Casement: Sonu Shamdasani Interviewed by Ann Casement Sonu Shamdasani interviewed by Ann Casement Abstract: Sonu Shamdasani interviewed by Ann Casement about Jung’s The Red Book: Liber Novus in the co…

Barbara Hannah: The friendly goddess told him that only her father, Proteus, could tell them how they could get home.

Barbara Hannah: The friendly goddess told him that only her father, Proteus, could tell them how they could get home.: Barbara Hannah: Encounters with the Soul: Active Imagination as Developed by C.G. Jung Menelaus told Telemachus how his anima had taught him to deal with the situation when he was del…

Jung’s Soul: The deer Goddess had rescued them-yes, Artemis. Isn’t she beautiful and chaste?

Jung’s Soul: The deer Goddess had rescued them-yes, Artemis. Isn’t she beautiful and chaste?: Three deer fled from the forest and the most beautiful hunter could not catch them. He hunted with hounds and horses and bright spears and yet they escaped him. They jumped into the river an…

Introduction to Jungian Psychology by Sonu Shamdasani

Introduction to Jungian Psychology by Sonu Shamdasani: Analytical Psychology: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1925 Introduction to Jungian Psychology by Sonu Shamdasani March 24, 1925, Zurich. Cary Baynes noted: Yesterday began the new order, that is to …

Carl Jung and the Women of India

Carl Jung and the Women of India: Jung: His Life and His Work I had a chance at these [dinners and receptions] to talk to educated Indian women. This was a novelty. Their costume stamps them as women. It is the most becoming, the m…

Carl Jung and the Women of India

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Carl Jung: Every real solution is only reached by intense suffering.

Carl Jung: Every real solution is only reached by intense suffering.: Letters of C. G. Jung: Volume I, 1906-1950 (Vol 1) To P. W. Martin Dear Mr. Martin, 20 August 1937 I’m indeed very sorry that I have left your letter unanswered, but I was so busy that…

Retrieving the Missing Fourth: The Night Sea Journey of a Marion Woodman Intensive

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Thursday, March 10, 2022

Sonu Shamdasani: The Magical Method that Works in the Dark – C. G. Jung, Hypnosis, and Suggestion.

Sonu Shamdasani: The Magical Method that Works in the Dark – C. G. Jung, Hypnosis, and Suggestion.: Sonu Shamdasani: The Magical Method that Works in the Dark – C. G. Jung, Hypnosis, and Suggestion. Psychoanalysis and analytical psychology today trace themselves back to Freud …

The creative process has feminine quality…

The creative process has feminine quality…: Modern Man in Search of a Soul “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 …

The toad is the opposite of air, it is a contrary element, namely earth,…

The toad is the opposite of air, it is a contrary element, namely earth,…: Mysterium Coniunctionis The opposites and their symbols are so common in the texts that it is superfluous to cite evidence from the sources. On the other hand, in view of the ambiguity of the alche…

Dreams in Antiquity ~Carl Jung

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Carl Jung: Circe alone possesses the mystery, not the miserable swines of her garden.

Carl Jung: Circe alone possesses the mystery, not the miserable swines of her garden.: Black Books You [Jung’s Soul] don’t escape me. The black birds are your retinue, they live from your sacrifice. It does not lie with them. It lies with you. You don’t confuse me through…

Carl Jung: The attainment of wholenesss requires one to stake one’s whole being.

Carl Jung: The attainment of wholenesss requires one to stake one’s whole being.: Psychology and Religion I would not under any circumstances like it to be understood that I am making any recommendations or offering any advice. But when one begins to talk about Zen in the…

According to an ancient belief, man arose from the coming together of a soul and a body.

According to an ancient belief, man arose from the coming together of a soul and a body.: Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche I shall return to this question in the course of my exposition. We will put it aside for the time being and turn back to the original question of mind and body.…

For what he paints are active fantasies—that which is active within him.

For what he paints are active fantasies—that which is active within him.: Development of Personality Here again my prime purpose is to produce an effect. In the state of psychological childhood described above, the patient remains passive; but now he begins to play an ac…

Honouring the body Marion Woodman

Honouring the body Marion Woodman: Marion Woodman – Honoring the Body Honouring the body Marion Woodman J. Jung Institut-Zurich, Switzerland (Received 17 March 2008; final version received 17 April 2008) Grounded in the psycho…

Wednesday, March 9, 2022

Carl Jung: “According to ancient tradition men came from trees or plants.”

Carl Jung: “According to ancient tradition men came from trees or plants.”: Alchemical Studies (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.13) According to ancient tradition men came from trees or plants. The tree is as it were an intermediate form of man, since on the one hand it s…

Carl Jung’s Zofingia Lectures, Marie-Louise Von Franz, Introduction

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In the Therapist’s Chair: Professor Rinaldo Walcott in conversation with Dr Marion Woodman

In the Therapist’s Chair: Professor Rinaldo Walcott in conversation with Dr Marion Woodman: In the Therapist’s Chair: Professor Rinaldo Walcott in conversation with Dr Marion Woodman   INTERVIEW In the Therapist’s Chair: Professor Rinaldo Walcott in conversation with Dr Marion …

Carl Jung on Sexuality, Erotic Sculptures, Dharma and Karma.

Carl Jung on Sexuality, Erotic Sculptures, Dharma and Karma.: Aion [Carl Jung on Sexuality, Erotic Sculptures, Dharma and Karma.] When I visited the ancient pagoda at Turukalukundram, southern India, a local pundit explained to me that the old temples were pu…

Projection and Re-Collection in Jungian Psychology by Marie-Louise von Franz; Review by: Jack Nideve

Projection and Re-Collection in Jungian Psychology by Marie-Louise von Franz; Review by: Jack Nideve: Projection and Re-Collection in Jungian Psychology by Marie-Louise von Franz; Review by: Jack Nideve URL: Review Reviewed Work(s): Projection and Re-Collection in Jungian Psychology by Marie-Louise…

This apprehension shows how little trust we place in the efficacy of our moral principles.

This apprehension shows how little trust we place in the efficacy of our moral principles.: Two Essays on Analytical Psychology Freudian psychoanalysis has been accused of liberating man’s (fortunately) repressed animal instincts and thus causing incalculable harm. This apprehension…

You still share the common human lot and are not cut off from humanity by a subjective defect.

You still share the common human lot and are not cut off from humanity by a subjective defect.: Understanding an illness does not cure it, but it is a definite help because you can cope with a comprehensible difficulty far more easily than with an incomprehensible darkness. Even if in …

Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Carl Jung: I did not say in the broadcast, “There is a God.”

Carl Jung: I did not say in the broadcast, “There is a God.”: C.G. Jung Speaking “Called or uncalled, God is present!” It is a Delphic oracle. The translation is by Erasmus. You ask whether the oracle is my motto. In a way, you see, it contains the ent…

Carl Jung on the “Attributes of Tao”

Carl Jung on the “Attributes of Tao”: Psychological Types (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Vol. 6) (Bollingen Series XX) Attributes of Tao: The way The middle way between the opposites Method Principle The natural force or life forc…

Carl Jung on "God" – Anthology

Carl Jung on "God" – Anthology: [Carl Jung on “God” in The Red Book aka Liber Novus – Anthology] The ancients called the saving word the Logos, an expression of divine reason. So much unreason / was in man that he needed r…

Carl Jung: If we do not fashion for ourselves a picture of the world,

Carl Jung: If we do not fashion for ourselves a picture of the world,: If we do not fashion for ourselves a picture of the world, we do not see ourselves either, who are the faithful reflections of that world. Only when mirrored in our picture of the world can we see …

Marion Woodman Obituary by Judith Harris

Marion Woodman Obituary by Judith Harris: Obituary: Marion Jean Woodman Marion Woodman (nee Boa) was born in August 1928 in London, Ontario, Canada and died on the 9th of July 2018, a few weeks short of her 90th birthday. Marion, a …

Monday, March 7, 2022

Carl Jung and “You see, our whole mental life, our consciousness, began with projections.”

Carl Jung and “You see, our whole mental life, our consciousness, began with projections.”: Zarathustra Seminars [Carl Jung and “You see, our whole mental life, our consciousness, began with projections.”] You see, our whole mental life, our consciousness, began with projections. O…

You see, the tension between Christ and the devil is in consciousness!

You see, the tension between Christ and the devil is in consciousness!: In this way then, a completely new redeemer concept arises. However, it is in no way true, for instance, that out of this Behemoth (which is closer to God, so to speak, because it lives in t…

So we cannot say it is the rule that when a man dies he becomes a spirit;

So we cannot say it is the rule that when a man dies he becomes a spirit;: Visions Seminars In the Tibetan Book of the Dead, pages 186-187, is a reference to the eighty thousand species of mischievous sprites. These seem to be blood relations to the imps mentioned in the …

Carl Jung: a scream is always just that-a noise and not music.

Carl Jung: a scream is always just that-a noise and not music.: Letters of C. G. Jung: Volume I, 1906-1950 (Vol 1) To Walter Mertens Dear Walter, 24 November 1932 I am entirely in agreement with the spirit of your essay on Picasso. I am only against arti…

Dr Marion Woodman: Analyst, teacher, author, friend, woman, visionary

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Sunday, March 6, 2022

Deeds were never invented, they were done.

Deeds were never invented, they were done.: The Symbolic Life Faust aptly says: “Im Anfang war die Tat” (in the beginning was the deed). Deeds were never invented, they were done. Thoughts, on the other hand, are a relatively lat…