The new attitude gained in the course of analysis tends sooner or later to become inadequate in one way or another, and necessarily so, because the flow of life again and again demands fresh adaptation. Adaptation is never achieved once and for all.… In the last resort it is highly improbable that there could…
“The great problems of life—sexuality, of course, among others—are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are really balancing or compensating factors which correspond with the problems life presents in actuality. This is not to be marveled at, since these images are deposits representing the accumulated experience of thousands of…
Jung’s Last Mandala: 1927From Memories, Dreams, Reflections, page 223 I found myself in a dirty, sooty city. It was night, and winter, and dark, and raining. I was in Liverpool. With a number of Swiss—say half a dozen. I walked through the dark streets. I had the feeling that there we were coming from the…
I did not reduce them [dreams] to personal factors, as Freud does…. I compared them with the symbols from mythology and the history of religion, in order to discover the meaning they were trying to express. Saturn Devouring His Son Francisco Goya 1819–1823. Oil mural transferred to canvas 143cm x 81cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid…
Psyche’s Second Task Romano Guilio 1526-28 Fresco Sala di Psyche, Palazzo del Tè, Mantua 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 When night was passed Venus called Psyches, and said, Seest thou yonder…
Leonard Cohen, the Canadian poet, novelist, musician and songwriter, utilized the I Ching early in his career. In researching this on the Web, the following article appeared, written by Ruth Wisse in 1995. (She is a professor of Yiddish literature at Harvard). It bespeaks of the prejudice about the I Ching, and how little it…
(Continuing on theme of how the I Ching — essentially introduced to the West by Carl Jung and Richard Wilhelm in 1950 — influenced the culture…) Joni Mitchell: Amelia I was driving across the burning desert When I spotted six jet planes Leaving six white vapor trails across the bleak terrain It was…
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…
One of the best writers about the world of Jungian thought is Murray Stein. He has written a number of excellent books: The Principle of Individuation Jung’s Map of the Soul Jungian Analysis Jung’s Treatment of Christianity In Midlife Practicing Wholeness Transformation Emergence of the Self Solar Conscience Lunar Conscience In the biography section of…