Marie-Louise von Franz – The Transformed Berserk: Unification of Psychic Opposites At the core of the relationship between individual transformation and social responsibility is the problem of psychic opposites. For, as Carl Gustav Jung once pointed out, ”there always will be the two standpoints: the standpoint of the social leader who, if he is an…
Marion Woodman: “And a Crone Shall Lead Them” Reading ancient myths and fairy tales can be very helpful because these stories came spontaneously from people who had not studied psychology. The stories came straight out of their unconscious and, therefore, show us how the unconscious works unimpeded by conscious intervention. The images are clear and stark. For…
The seeress of Prevorst revelations concerning the inner-life of man The following phenomena are similar to those known of persons who could read what was laid on the pit of the stomach, or else, by the sense of feeling, obtained a knowledge of it. I gave Mrs. H two pieces of paper, carefully folded: “There…
Pauli’s Life Crisis Pauli and Jung first met in 1931, when Pauli sought help for acute depression. Pauli says in a much later letter to Jung that his neurosis had already been quite apparent in 1926, while he was living in Hamburg. His exclusive preoccupation with scientific interests had suppressed all other human qualities and…
Marion Woodman: Assent to the Goddess But O alas, so long, so far Our bodies why do we forbear? They are ours, though not we; we are The intelligences, they the sphere. We owe them thanks because they thus, Did us to us at first convey, Yielded their forces, sense, to us, Nor are dross…