Wall Street Journal May 12, 2010 Arnie Cooper One of the more stunning works on display (image 125) depicts one of Jung’s childhood daydreams “in which,” writes Mr. Shamdasani, “Alsace is submerged by water, [and] Basel is turned into a port” in the bottom third of the picture. Hovering above is a human figure—legs in…
Christopher Lane, Ph.D. Carl Jung’s Frightening Demons Was Jung’s visionary phase due to mental illness or an existential crisis? Christopher Lane, Ph.D. Published on May 13, 2010 One reason for the enigma surrounding Carl Jung’s Red Book is that he never got around to finishing it. The haunting book ends mid-sentence, just after its author…
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…
Why do so many movies from the fifties have monsters/robots carrying these passive women? (King Kong may have started it in the thirties.) It looks like some kind of some monstrous/masculine energy combined with an almost comatose feminine. The fifties were a time of fear of nuclear annihilation and Betty Crocker/Susie Housewife models of the feminine….
If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we…
The shadow may appear in dreams and visions in various forms. It typically has the same apparent gender as one’s persona. It is possible that it might appear with dark features to a person of any race, since it represents a distant and indiscriminate aspect of the mind. The shadow’s appearance and role…
We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women who pass by without exciting attention, and who betray to the world nothing of the conflicts that rage within them except possibly by a nervous breakdown. What is so difficult for…
The hero’s main feat is to overcome the monster of darkness: it is the long-hoped-for and expected triumph of consciousness over the unconscious. The coming of consciousness was probably the most tremendous experience of primeval times, for with it a world came into being whose existence no one had suspected before. “And God said, ‘Let…
“It is the face of our own shadow that glowers at us across the Iron Curtain.” The exploration of one’s conscience is not a popular pastime, however, is not a popular pastime, although it would be most necessary, particularly in our time when man is threatened with self-created and deadly dangers that are growing beyond…