Lucia Joyce, schizophrenia and Carl Jung
“…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…
…”the wonderful simplicity of Jung’s presence…”
In an interview late in his life Eliade again recalled his first meeting with Jung: After half an hour’s conversation I felt I was listening to a Chinese sage or an east European peasant, still rooted in the Earth Mother yet close to Heaven at the same time. I was enthralled by the wonderful simplicity…
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your golden hair….
(excerpt) After they had lived like this for a few years, it happened one day that a Prince was riding through the wood and passed by the tower. As he drew near it he heard someone singing so sweetly that he stood still spell-bound, and listened. It was Rapunzel in her loneliness trying to while…
Synchronicity and the Death of Jung
From Time Magazine December 1, 1975 On the very afternoon that Jung died in Zurich, writes van der Post, “lightning struck his favorite tree in the garden.” Van der Post was on a ship bound from Africa at the time. Unaware that his old friend had died, he had a vision of Jung atop the…
C.G. Jung, On the Symbolism of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary
“One could have known for a long time that there was a deep longing in the masses for an intercessor and mediatrix who would at last take her place alongside the Holy Trinity and be received as the ‘Queen of heaven and Bride at the heavenly court.’ For more than a thousand years it has…