Movies of Interest: Modern Man in Search of a Soul
In the Wikipedia entry about The 1936 movie The Petrified Forest, it sets the scene: Howard, once a British intellectual and writer, now a penniless alcoholic drifter, wanders into a roadside diner in the Petrified Forest area in northern Arizona. What is doesn’t include is the information that in knapsack he had one book: Jung’s…
Alchemy of the Week: Strike the Egg!
Strike the Egg and Pierce it with a Fiery Sword! Atalanta Fugiens Emblem VIII Epigram 8 There is a bird in the world, more sublime than all, Let it be your only care to find its egg. The albumen softly surrounds the golden yolk, Attack it cautiously with a fiery sword, (as…
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C.G. Jung: “Dreams are the speech of my soul.”
C.G. Jung, On the Soul and Dreams “I must learn the dregs of my thought, my dreams, are the speech of my soul. I must carry them in my heart, and go back and forth over them in my mind, like the words of the person dearest to me. Dreams are the guiding words of…
C.G. Jung, On the Symbolism of Spirals
C.G. Jung: “The spiral in psychology means that when you make a spiral you always come over the same point where you have been before, but never really the same, it is above or below, inside, outside, so it means growth. “ (Dream Analysis, Parts II & III. 1929) First Image: Paul Klee, The Beginning,…
More on Spirals: The Spiral Jetty
Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970) is one of the most well known examples of “Land Art”. It took about two weeks and two tries to get in place, moving 6000 tons of basalt with heavy equipment. One could perhaps see it as a culturally collective symbol of the emergence of the feminine. However, I would…
Jung, On the goal of psychic development
Carl Jung: “I began to understand that the goal of psychic development is the circumambulation of the self.” I began to understand that the goal of psychic development is the circumambulation of the self. Uniform development exists, at most, at the beginning; later, everything points toward the centre. This insight gave me stability, and gradually…