Joseph Wright: Vesuvius in Eruption Jung: “The change of character brought about by the uprush of collective forces is amazing.” The change of character brought about by the uprush of collective forces is amazing. A gentle and reasonable being can be transformed into a maniac or a savage beast. One is always inclined…
Alexander-Louis Laloir: Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, 1865 Unfortunately there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. If an…
‘ Carl Jung: The mandala as depicting “a kind of central point within the psyche.” The mandala’s basic motif is the premonition of a center of personality, a kind of central point within the psyche, to which everything is related, by which everything is arranged, and which is itself a source of energy…. This…
Becoming Human “This process of becoming human is represented in dreams and inner images as the putting together of many scattered units, and sometimes as the gradual emergence and clarification of something that was always there. The speculations of alchemy, and also of some Gnostics, revolve around this process. It is likewise…