Jacob left Beersheba, and went toward Haran. He came to the place and stayed there that night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed that there was a ladder set up on…
It is always heartwarming to see Jungian viewpoints on the web. Pythia Peay contributes frequent Jungian related posts on the Huffington Post. Here she interviews John Beebe, the foremost Jungian analyst who comments about film: The Huffington Post Pythia Peay Author and writer on spirituality, psychology and the American psyche February 22, 2011 Academy Awards…
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…
Pablo Picasso The Dream 1932 Mark Harris: C.G. Jung and Picasso In 1932, Carl Gustav Jung wrote a perceptive analysis of Picasso’s psychology after seeing an exhibition of his paintings at the Zürich Kunsthaus. The analysis was published in the Neue Züricher Zeitung. The article offended many of Picasso’s admirers in the artworld. In it…
From the Forward: This assumption involves a certain curious principle that I have termed synchronicity, a concept that formulates a point of view diametrically opposed to that of causality. Since the latter is a merely statistical truth and not absolute, it is a sort of working hypothesis of how events evolve one out of another,…
A few years later Wilhelm was staying as a guest in my house, and came down with an attack of amoebic dysentery. It was a disease he had had twenty years before. His condition grew worse during the following months, and then I heard that Wilhelm was in the hospital. I went to Frankfurt to…
“…they were yung and easily freudened…“ James Joyce, Finnegan’s Wake [Lucia and her father were] “like two people going to the bottom of a river, one falling and the other diving.” Interview with Carl Jung, Richard Ellmann The daughter of James Joyce, Lucia Joyce, was seen by Jung in 1934. She had been showing signs…