The archetype of spirit in the shape of a man, hobgoblin, or animal always appears in a situation where insight, understanding, good advice, determination, planning, etc., are needed but cannot be mustered on one’s own resources. The archetype compensates this state of spiritual deficiency by contents designed to fill the gap. “The Phenomenology of…
William Blake: plate from the First Book of Urizen “I live in my deepest hell, and from there I cannot fall any further.” (Jung’s response when asked how he could live with the knowledge he had recorded in the Book of Job. In Marie Loise Von Franz, Jung: His Myth in Our Time, Page 174)…
One cannot individuate without being with other human beings. One cannot individuate on top of Mt. Everest, or in a cave where one doesn’t see anyone for seventy-years; one can only individuate with or against something or somebody. Being an individual is always a link in a chain. Nietzsche’s “Zarathustra”: notes of the seminar given…