BE WARNED AND UNDERSTAND TRULY THAT TWO FISHES ARE SWIMMING IN OUR SEA. The Sea as the Body, the two Fishes are Soul and Spirit. The Sages will tell you That two fishes are in our sea Without any flesh or bones. Let them be cooked in their own water; Then they also will become…
I will try to explain the term “individuation” as simply as possible. By it I mean the psychological process that makes of a human being an “individual”-a unique, indivisible unit or “whole man.” from a lecture at the Eranos Meeting at Ascona The Meaning of Individuation Prometheus bound Amphoriskos C6th B.C., Vatican City Museums What…
Crossing the River Styx Joachim Patinir 1521 Transitions as Liminal and Archetypal Situations From a lecture delivered by Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. at the Mythic Journeys Conference June 2004, Atlanta, Georgia The fourth step is the first time that Psyche will end up accomplishing the task herself. As her very last task, Aphrodite commands that…
The River Styx Luca Giordano 1684-1686. Fresco in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi From: The Golden Asse by Lucius Apuleius Adlington’s translation, 1566 THE FIFTH BOOKE THE TWENTY-SECOND CHAPTER The most pleasant and delectable tale of the marriage of Cupid and Psyches … Then Venus spake unto Psyches againe saying: Seest thou the toppe of yonder great…
Psyche at the Throne of Venus Jungian analysts
Cupid and Psyche Orazio Gentileschi 1628-30 Oil on canvas, 137 x 160 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg Cupid and Psyche Sir Anthony van Dyck 1639-40 Oil on canvas, 199.4 x 191.8 cm Royal Collection, Windsor Sleeping Psyche Michelangelo Palloni ca. 1688 Fresco Wilanów Palace Museum, Warsaw Psyche Served by Invisible Spirits Luca Giordano 1692-1702 Oil…
Jung’s first mandala “In the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and quaternity figures which express wholeness, and whenever we wish to express wholeness, we employ just such figures. ” Memories, Dreams and Reflections “Most mandalas have an intuitive, irrational character and, through their symbolical…
Continuing on the theme of musical references to the I Ching, The Band was one of the best bands of the sixties. End of argument. She reads the leaves and she leads the life That she learned so well from the old wives It’s so strange to arrange it, you know I wouldn’t change…
“This is a man who isn’t afraid of looking at the dark side or saying things that are unpopular or politically incorrect.” Tracey Cleantis Psychology Today James Hillman: Follow Your Uncertainty February 22, 2011 One of the more articulate quasi- and post Jungians is James Hillman, founder of Archeytpal Psychology. One of his more provocative…