Clearly, Carl Jung makes people happy…. Click this link for more about Jung’s carving on his 75th Birthday Archetypal Symbolism in Possessing the Secret of Joy Southern Literary Journal Alice Walker’s fifth novel, Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992), marks a new beginning for an author/activist who explicitly appropriates Carl Jung’s archetypal patterns of the…
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…
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…
Carl Jung was recruited by Allen Dulles, through Mary Bancroft, to provide psychological profiles of Hitler and the German psyche. Dulles met with him on several occasions; Eisenhower read his report before the final invasion of Germany. It is quite difficult to track down this information; some of it can be found in the furnished…
Dear Sir, Your Ulysses has presented the world such an upsetting psychological problem, that repeatedly I have been called in as a supposed authority on psychological matters. Ulysses proved to be an exceedingly hard nut and it has forced my mind not only to most unusual efforts, but also to rather extravagant peregrinations (speaking from…
For approximately the last three weeks, this blog has been trying to view the Jared Loughner case in a Jungian context. Although there is still much to try to understand, it is also time to move on to other topics. To give equal time to the lighter side of life, for a while this blog…
From the Red Book (The Axeman Cometh?) The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not—which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams. Psychology and Alchemy, 1953 I leave theory aside as much as possible when analyzing dreams-not entirely, of course,…
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge. Aion (1951). CW…