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Popular Quotations without citations to prove Dr. Jung uttered them.

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Listen to the Lament of the Dead and Accept them with Love

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Carl Jung: Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit would be dead.

Carl Jung: Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit would be dead.: Letters Volume II To Father Victor White Dear Victor,                                                      Bollingen, 10 April 1954 Your letter has been lying on my desk waiting for a suitable time…

Carl Jung: …we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.

Carl Jung: …we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.: Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be. In this latter case, unfortunately, there…

Carl Jung on the Conflict between Science and Religion

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The body bears the traces of its phylogenetic development, so also does the human mind.

The body bears the traces of its phylogenetic development, so also does the human mind.: Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche Instead of multiplying examples I can best show what I mean by reference to our specimen dream. It will be remembered that the dream introduced the apple scene …

Gerhard Wehr Books [Jungian]

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Darkness in The Red Book – Anthology

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Carl Jung and Marie Louise Von Franz – YouTube

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Carl Jung: Faust and Alchemy

Carl Jung: Faust and Alchemy: Symbolic Life The drama of Faust has its primary sources in alchemy; these are on the one hand dreams, visions, and parables, on the other, personal and biographical notes regarding the Great Opus.…

The Art of C.G. Jung [Images]

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Gershom Scholem’s Letter to Aniela Jaffe

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Carl Jung on the “Creative Element."

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Search Results for “tina keller” – Carl Jung Depth Psychology

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30 November 1932 Visions Seminar Lecture IV

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Carl Jung and Excerpts from Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle

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Carl Jung: " But if you know what the dead demand…"

Carl Jung: " But if you know what the dead demand…": The Red Book It is nothing other than common evil desire, nothing but everyday temptation, as long as you do not know that it is what the dead demand. But as long as you know about the dead, you wi…

Search Results for “aion” – Carl Jung Depth Psychology

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Carl Jung on why Fairy Tales and Religious Dogmas are so important.

Carl Jung on why Fairy Tales and Religious Dogmas are so important.: Aion   [Carl Jung on why Fairy Tales and Religious Dogmas are so important.] The treatise of Rosinus contains a parallel to Morienus: “This stone is something which is fixed more in thee…

Carl Jung on Manipura and the value of Desire, Passions, Emotion.

Carl Jung on Manipura and the value of Desire, Passions, Emotion.: Kundaini Yoga Seminar [Carl Jung on Manipura and the value of Desire, Passions, Emotion.] Yes, desire, passions, the whole emotional world breaks loose. Sex, power, and every devil in our na…

Carl Jung on “Intuitives” – Anthology

Carl Jung on “Intuitives” – Anthology: Intuitives don’t have substance; they have inventiveness, imagination. They don’t complete anything. It is necessary for them to acquire this faculty. ~C. G. Jung, Emma Jung and Toni Wo…

Carl Jung: To be "normal" is the ideal aim for the unsuccessful

Carl Jung: To be "normal" is the ideal aim for the unsuccessful: Practice of Psychotherapy               To be “normal” is the ideal aim for the unsuccessful, for all those who are still below the general level of a…

Much consideration was given to what kind of audience this multilayered work should be directed:

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Marie-Louise von Franz: Archetypal Symbols in Fairytales

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Books by June Singer [Jungian]

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“Salome” in The Black Books – Quotations

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Carl Jung: “does man feel himself to have been created or not”?

Carl Jung: “does man feel himself to have been created or not”?: Modern Psychology: C. G. Jung’s Lectures at the ETH Zürich, 1933-1941 “Homo creatus est” means that man was created. We are inclined to turn our backs smilingly on such a statement, thi…

Carl Jung: Do you know why you cannot abandon apishness?

Carl Jung: Do you know why you cannot abandon apishness?: Red Book If you give up your self, you live it in others; thereby you become selfish to others, and thus you deceive others. Everyone thus believes that such a life is possible. It is, however, onl…

I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness…

I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness…: Memories Dreams Reflections   “The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an i…

Carl Jung: Real poets create out of an inner vision

Carl Jung: Real poets create out of an inner vision: letters Vol. II To Attila Faj Dear Doctor Faj: September 1957 M y best thanks for your kindness in sending me your article on the Madach question in Osservatore letterario and the German abs…

Carl Jung: Excellent examples of this are to be found in all personal quarrels.

Carl Jung: Excellent examples of this are to be found in all personal quarrels.: Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche As against Freud’s view that the dream is essentially a wish-fulfilment, I hold with my friend and collaborator Alphonse Maeder that the dream is a sponta…

Carl Jung: it is not easy to reach utmost poverty and simplicity.

Carl Jung: it is not easy to reach utmost poverty and simplicity.: Letters Volume II To the Mother Prioress of a Contemplative Order Rev. Mother Prioress, September 1959 I hope you will forgive the long delay of my answer to your kind letter of July 24. It came at…

Carl Jung answers: Where do you get the incentive for your creative work, Professor?

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Carl Jung: " But if you know what the dead demand…"

Carl Jung: " But if you know what the dead demand…": The Red Book It is nothing other than common evil desire, nothing but everyday temptation, as long as you do not know that it is what the dead demand. But as long as you know about the dead, you wi…

Sabina Spielrein: I still remember my great-grandfather, from 3-4 years old, [as] a large friendly man in black.

Sabina Spielrein: I still remember my great-grandfather, from 3-4 years old,  [as] a large friendly man in black.: In defense of Sabina Spielrein I still remember my great-grandfather, from 3-4 years old,  [as] a large friendly man in black. What made a much deeper impression was what I heard about him: he was …

Emma Jung and Toni Wolff in the “Jung-Keller Correspondence”

Emma Jung and Toni Wolff in the “Jung-Keller Correspondence”: From then on, only Jungian analysts belonged to the Association for Analytical Psychology—the majority of them psychiatrists—among them Alphonse Maeder and Franz Riklin. Otto Mensendi…

C.G. Jung’s Preface to Proposed English Edition to Tina Keller’s Keller-Jenny’s “L’Ame et les Nerfi”

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Carl Jung: Finally, we come to the question, who are the dead, and what does it mean to answer them?

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The Red Book Liber Novus – Reviewed by: Ann Belford Ulanov

The Red Book Liber Novus – Reviewed by: Ann Belford Ulanov: A Review of The Red Book by Ann Belford Ulanov The Red Book Liber Novus by C. G. Jung; Sonu Shamdasani; Ulrich Hoerni; Mark Kyburz; John Peck Review by: Ann Belford Ulanov Something happened to Jun…

“Phanes” in the Black Books – Quotations

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Carl Jung: This Buddha is a parallel to the medieval inner Christ.

Carl Jung: This Buddha is a parallel to the medieval inner Christ.: ETH Lectures Then the tower is imagined with its four posts. Here the quaternity comes in (it plays a still more significant role in the Shri-Chakra-Sambhara Tantra) and the process re aches its cu…

The egg, the vessels and the words. From Izdubar to Answer to Job

The egg, the vessels and the words. From Izdubar to Answer to Job: Christian Gaillard – The egg, the vessels and the words. From Izdubar to Answer to Job1 The egg, the vessels and the words: From Izdubar to Answer to Job; For an imaging thinking by Ch…

Carl Jung on Time, Disturbances and Systems of Yoga in Creativity

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The Fountain of Love and Wisdom: An Homage to Marie-Louise Von Franz – Quotations

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Carl Jung: Looking outwards has got to be turned into looking into oneself.

Carl Jung: Looking outwards has got to be turned into looking into oneself.: C.G. Jung Speaking Then what do you advise this inimitable being to do once he passes the ominous age of forty? An ever-deepening self-knowledge is, I’m afraid, indispensable for the continua…

Carl Jung: But your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.

Carl Jung: But your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.: Letters Volume I 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, you can never reach …

Carl Jung: From this argument it follows that we should expect an operative archetype.

Carl Jung: From this argument it follows that we should expect an operative archetype.: Letters of C. G. Jung: Volume 2, 1951-1961 To Stephen Abrams Dear Mr. Abrams, 21 October 1957 Your letter leads into the centre of a very complicated problem. Being a scientist I am rather shy of p…

Carl Jung: Christ thus succumbs to cursing.

Carl Jung: Christ thus succumbs to cursing.: Red Book You dread the depths; it should horrify you, since the way of what is to come leads through it. You must endure the temptation if fear and doubt, and at the same time acknowledge to the bo…

Carl Jung: Apartfrom the Masses said for the soul in the Catholic Church, the provisions we make for the dead are rudimentary

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