C.G. Jung writes to Kerenyi about labyrinths…

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To Karl Kerenyi

Dear Colleague:

10 March 1941

Many thanks for kindly sending me your Labyrinth book which I found extraordinarily interesting.

The labyrinth is indeed a primordial image which one encounters in psychology mostly in the form of the fantasy of a descent to the underworld.

In most cases, however, the topography of the unconscious is not expressed in the concentrated form of the labyrinth but in the false trails, deceptions, and perils of an underworld journey.

But there are also designs which express the labyrinth idea in the skein motif (coiling serpents, meanders, etc.).

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