( From The Sunday Times Literary Supplement) The odd couple: Carl Jung, Wolfgang Pauli and mystic numbers A strange marriage of science and psychology September 2, 2009 Georgina Ferry Excerpt: Soon after he arrived to take up a new post in Zurich in the early 1930s, exhausted and emerging from divorce and a breakdown, the…
Soul Stones From A Thousand Voices: It takes a Thousand Voices to Tell a Story Reverend Anthony David Jung 6, 2010 When Jung was ten, and feeling particularly alienated from his school-mates, and therefore at odds with himself, he found himself doing something with the “yellow, varnished pencil case of the kind commonly…
Harper’s Weekly October 19, 2009 What the text presents is a series of fantasies in which dramatic dialogues occur. Jung enters into discussion with the figures that emerge, and then attempts to draw lessons from their exchange. He viewed these characters as different aspects of his personality. The text describes his attempt to recognise and…
Psychology Today Guest Blogger: Dave Levitan November 16, 2090 I call up Dr. Stephen Martin, a Jungian analyst and co-founder and President of the Philemon Foundation.. “You’re not going to buy the book and say ‘oh now I understand everything,’” Martin says. “If you want to have an intelligent discussion about the depth of the…
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…
From Susan Smalley, Ph.D: Psychology Professor, UCLA The other night I attended one of the Red Book Dialogues at the Hammer Museum in Westwood, California. The Dialogues are a series of discussions between a celebrity (that night was Helen Hunt) and a psychoanalyst or Jungian scholar (that night was James Hillman) around The Red Book,…
“One could have known for a long time that there was a deep longing in the masses for an intercessor and mediatrix who would at last take her place alongside the Holy Trinity and be received as the ‘Queen of heaven and Bride at the heavenly court.’ For more than a thousand years it has…