We can never legitimately cut loose from our archetypal foundations unless we are prepared to pay the price of a neurosis, any more than we can rid ourselves of our body and its organs without committing suicide. If we cannot deny the archetypes or otherwise neutralize them, we are confronted, at every new stage…
The dream that started Carl Jung’s conception of the Collective Unconscious
Jacob left Beersheba, and went toward Haran. He came to the place and stayed there that night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed that there was a ladder set up on…
From Encyclopedia Mythica Niflheim (“house of mists”) is the far northern region of icy fogs and mists, darkness and cold. It is situated on the lowest level of the universe. The realm of death, Helheim is part of the vast, cold region. Niflheim lies underneath the third root of Yggdrasil, close to the spring Hvergelmir…
In 1909, when sailing with Freud to the United States, Jung had the following dream: I was in a house that I did not know,which had two stories. It was “My House”. I found myself in the upper story, where there was a kind of salon furnished with fine old pieces in rococo style. On…