Duccio di Buoninsegna: The Temptation of Christ on the Mountain, 1308−11 Jung defines his concept of projection “Projection means the expulsion of a subjective content into an object; it is the opposite of introjection. Accordingly, it is a process of dissimilation, by which a subjective content becomes alienated from the subject and is, so…
Gustave Moreau: Salome Dancing before Herod (detail) Carl Jung talks about the projection making factor behind the anima… What, then, is this projection-making factor? The East calls it the “Spinning Woman” Maya, who creates illusion by her dancing. Had we not long since known it from the symbolism of dreams, this hint from the Orient…
Carl Jung, on the Effect of Projection The effect of projection is to isolate the subject from his environment, since instead of a real relation to it there is now only an illusory one. Projections change the world into the replica of one’s own unknown face. In the last analysis, therefore, they lead to an…
Carl Jung talks about projection Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naïvely suppose that people are as we imagine them to be. . . . All the contents of our unconscious are constantly being projected into our surroundings, and it is only by recognizing certain…
Before I discovered alchemy, I had a series of dreams which repeatedly dealt with the same theme. Beside my house stood another, that is to say, another wing or annex, which was strange to me. Each time I would wonder in my dream why I did not know this house, although it had apparently always…
I had run out of stones for the Stone Sanctuary, and was resisting another long drive and loading of heavy stones. As I was passing the “transfer station” in Fairbanks, where people leave their trash, a small voice in my head said “turn, turn.” I had not been here for months, but, for whatever…
Stan Marlan: Regulating the Alchemical Heat When I was working on understanding the images that had been drawn after a severe heart attack, my wife gave me a copy of Stan Marlan’s “The Black Sun; The Alchemy and the Art of Darkness.” It had been meant for my birthday, but hid itself for…
Plate 4 Splendor Solis Marriage as a Psychological Relationship Regarded as a psychological relationship, marriage is a highly complex structure made up of a whole series of subjective and objective factors, mostly of a very heterogeneous nature. As I wish to confine myself here to the purely psychological problems of marriage, I must disregard…
After completing the Orphan Stone, Jung told Maud Oakes, “I need not have written any books; it is all on the stone.” He placed it outside the tower, as a monument to the place. From Mystical Emergence: An Architectural Journey Through Jung’s Tower Inscribed on the Stone: I am an orphan, alone; nevertheless…