For a number of years, I thought less of Jung because he had so many (alleged) extra-marital relationships, including relationships with his clients. However, if this is what it took for him to individuate as he did and to provide us with such profound insights into the nature of the psyche, then so be it….
It is good to see articles with a Jungian interpretation of a film… Excerpt from a www.mindhacks.com post: When you have a hammer, everything can look like a nail and people have been banging the shit out of Inception. The sci-fi movie of the year has attracted numerous ‘neuroscience of Inception’ reviews despite the…
The internet is full of quotes attributed to Carl Jung. At least this site gives the source (at least the book, though not the page). And the photos add a nice touch. “Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it.” —Interview, 1943 “The great problems of life—sexuality, of course, among others—are…
From Wolfgang Pauli, Carl Jung, and the Acausal Connecting Principle: A Case Study in Transdisciplinarity Charlene P. E. Burns Jung’s fascination with physics actually began early in his career as a result of a series of dinners with Albert Einstein between 1909 and 1912. He later wrote that “It was Einstein who first started me…
St. Thomas Aquinas Jung’s Betrayal of Father Victor White (Catholic Priest) June 16, 2010 by Steven Buser This week’s blog is the conclusion of Murray Stein’s lecture on Betrayal, given at Jungian Odyssey 2010. In it he looks at the intense friendship and later dramatic breakup of Carl Jung and Father Victor White. If you…
From Zosismos of Panopolis (Wikipeda) One of Zosimos’ texts is about a sequence of dreams related to Alchemy, and presents the proto-science as a much more religious experience. In his dream he first comes to an altar and meets Ion (the Sabians consider him the founder of their religion), who calls himself “the priest of…
WNYC Culture Author: Miranda Shafer Dr. Cornel West and Dr. Ann Belford Ulanov recently discussed Jung’s unconscious mind for the Red Book Dialogues series at the Rubin Museum of Art. As the author of Race Matters, West is known as one of America’s most provocative public intellectuals, but, the good doctor was left speechless by…
It’s a great irony of Mike Chico’s life: A building super who spent the majority of his life helping others create a secure living space, ran away from his own home to come to New York City. At 56 years old, Chico is one of the many unique individuals interviewed as part of the Rubin…
Carl Jung’s Red Book inspired Gloria Vanderbilt to discuss her experiences of motherhood: from her hallucinations during childbirth, to the pet snake of her son, journalist and personality Anderson Cooper. Cooper loved the snake so much that he had it taxidermied after its death. She spoke with the Brazilian-born, New York-based psycholanalyst Andrea Fiuza Hunt…