Carl Jung speaks of the Mystery of Love: If we possess a grain of wisdom, we will completely surrender to this unknowable who embraces in love all the opposites. Whatever the learned interpretation may be of the sentence “God is love,” the words affirm the complexio oppositorum of the Godhead. In my medical experience…
“Our unconscious, on the other hand, hides living water, spirit that has become nature, and that is why it is disturbed. Heaven has become for us the cosmic space of the physicists, and the divine empyrean a fair memory of things that once were. But ‘the heart glows,’ and a secret unrest gnaws at the…
Carl Jung on the Central Position of the Mandala “I had to abandon the idea of the superordinate position of the ego…. I saw that everything, all paths I had been following, all steps I had taken, were leading back to a single point — namely, to the mid-point. It became increasingly plain…
Jung Describes His Process of Drawing Mandalas I sketched every morning in a notebook a small circular drawing, a mandala, which seemed to correspond to my inner situation at the time. With the help of these drawings I could observe my psychic transformations from day to day. . .. Only gradually did I discover…
From Man and His Symbols (1964) From this line of reasoning, I concluded that only the material that is clearly and visibly part of a dream should be used in interpreting it. The dream has its own limitation. Its specific form itself tells us what belongs to it and what leads away from it. While…
from the Red Book It was night in some unknown place, and I was making slow and painful headway against a mighty wind. Dense fog was flying along everywhere. I had my hands cupped around a tiny light which threatened to go out at any moment. Everything depended on my keeping this little light alive….
From Claire Dunne’s Carl Jung: Wounded Healer of the Soul, page 209: Man and His Symbols, Jung’s last work, had a typical birth. The highly successful Freeman interview prompted a publisher’s request for a book of Jung’s “more important and basic ideas,” this time “for the people in the market place.” No, said eighty-three year…
1923 The Tower at Bollingen “Words and paper did not seem real enough to me.To put my fantasies on solid footing, something more was needed.I had to achieve a kind of representation in stone of my innermost thoughts and of the knowledge I had acquired.Put another way, I had to make a confession of faith…
General Alfried Jodl signs the unconditional German nation surrender document at Rheims, France, in order of the new Government Doenitz Although WWII may seem like a long way away, the psychological processes of projection are always present. We are still at war. At the end of this interview, Jung says, “I have already suggested that…