“The stirring up of conflict is a Luciferian virtue in the true sense of the word. Conflict engenders fire, the fire of affects and emotions, and like every other fire it has two aspects, that of combustion and that of creating light. On the one hand, emotion is the alchemical fire whose warmth brings…
Carl Jung, on finding the images behind the emotions: To the extent that I managed to translate the emotions into images– that is to say, to find the images which were concealed in the emotions– I was inwardly calmed and reassured. Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn…
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house next door, and at any moment a flame may dart out and set fire to his own house. Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always…
C.G. Jung: “Never apply any theory, but always ask a patient how he feels about his dream images.” Never apply any theory, but always ask the patient how he feels about his dream images. For dreams are always about a particular problem of the individual about which he has a wrong conscious judgment. The dreams…
When you dream of a savage bull, or a lion, or a wolf pursuing you, this means: it wants to come to you. You would like to split it off, you experience it as something alien, but it just becomes all the more dangerous. . . The best stance would be: ‘Please, come…
Hokusai: The Great Wave Off Kanagawa We know that the mask of the unconscious is not rigid – it reflects the face we turn towards it. Hostility lends it a threatening aspect, friendliness softens its features. C.G. Jung; Psychology and Alchemy (1944). CW 12: P.29 —– Make being receptive to dreams an intention;…
[soliloquy id=”7829″] Beginning in 1952, cartoonists Joe Simon and Jack Kirby illustrated four issues of the “Strange World of Your Dreams.” The editors even offered to buy your dreams — $25 if your dream was selected. The byline on all of the comics: “What do they mean — Those messages received in sleep?”…
One of the most brilliant depictions of dreams was done by Windsor McCay, in a newspaper comic strip that began in 1904. (This is contemporaneous with Freud’s “The Interpretation of Dreams”, first published in 1899, but which took years to sell the first 600 copies.) At the time of McCay’s comic strip, one on of…
This is the mother-love, which is one of the most moving and unforgettable memories of our lives, the mysterious root of all growth and change; the love that means homecoming, shelter, and the long silence from which everything begins and in which everything ends. From Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious