On the Stone at Bollingen “I am an orphan, alone: nevertheless I am found everywhere. I am one, but opposed to myself. I am youth and old man at one and the same time. I have known neither father nor mother, because I have had to be fetched out of the deep like a…
Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will. Paul Klee … …
Michelle Franton — an artist from Australia — and I started corresponding after she came across an image I had drawn of Kayaking the Unconscious She talked about how her paintings are “irrational”. I asked Michelle to comment on this fish painting of hers: The fish appeared during the painting of one of…
Consciousness, no matter how extensive it may be, must always remain the smaller circle within the greater circle of the unconscious, an island surrounded by the sea; and, like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of living creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming. Psychology of the…
Jung talks about Pisces, The Fishes, and the Fish Above all it is the connections with the Age of the Fishes which are attested by the fish symbol, either contemporaneously with the gospels themselves (“fishers of men”, fishermen as the first disciples, miracle of loaves and fishes) or immediately afterwards in the post-apostolic…
C.G. Jung: “Fishing is an intuitive attempt to “catch” unconscious contents (fishes).” [A young woman dreams:] I came to the bank of a broad, flowing river. I couldn’t see much at first, only water, earth and rock. I threw the pages with my notes into the water, with the feeling that I was giving something…
C.G. Jung: “‘Fishes and snakes are favourite symbols for describing psychic happenings or experiences that suddenly dart out of the unconscious.” Paul Klee The Golden Fish C.G. Jung on Fish Symbolism The serpent is an equivalent of the fish. The consensus of opinion interpreted the Redeemer equally as a fish and a serpent; he is…
Detail of an illustration of a solar barge on page 55 of Carl Jung’s The Red Book. Translated, the complete text on the page reads: One word that was never spoken. One light that was never lit up. An unparalleled confusion. And a road without end. According to translator Sonu Shamdasani, the solar barge “was…