The Life, Work and Legacy of Carl Jung
God’s Wretched Servants: The Father’s Ambiguity The following myth reformulates several themes regarding human existence and describes very well what I call the propitious attitude. Its heroes adopt a nonheroic, pragmatic approach that allows them to survive, but that also implies giving up understanding or controlling their wretched situation. An abridged version will suffice to … Read more
The Prophet Elijah in Islam In the Koran, Elijah (usually called Ilyas or Idris) is at first mentioned briefly, together with Zechariah, John and Jesus: ‘and all these We exalted above Our creatures’.¹ A more detailed account of him is given in a later sura (chapter): ‘We also sent forth Elias, who said to his … Read more
Carl Jung: I have become an ascetic, a hermit in the pleasure gardens of the earth “Dear Hedy Wyss! Your letter presses deeply into the strings, sounding out chords that reverberate into the unfathomable. Yes, that’s it precisely, and that’s what women look like when they love. And I should not beg forgiveness that I … Read more
Nor Hall, Those Women PREFACE The red of Dionysus belongs to women. So dark it is almost black, it calls up old wine, deep wounds, and the marbled walls of the womb itself heavy with twisted veins reaching inevitably toward the heart. At the heart of the Mystery chamber that anchors these pages in Pompeii … Read more