Symbolism of the washing of the hands. Children’s Dreams: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1940 [Carl Jung on the Symbolism of the “washing of the hands.”] We have shown the connection between the nature of the girl and the elves. Elves don’t have souls. In her playful way, the girl now does something very…
Carl Jung’s view of Animal “Vivisection.” Memories, Dreams, Reflections What fascinated me most of all was the morphological point of view in the broadest sense. With physiology it was just the opposite. I found the subject thoroughly repellent because of vivisection, which was practiced merely for purposes of demonstration. I could never free myself from…
That you find Kierkegaard frightful has warmed the cockles of my heart. C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 To Rudolf Pannwitz Dear Dr. Pannwitz, 27 March 1937 That you find Kierkegaard “frightful” has warmed the cockles of my heart. I find him simply insupportable and cannot understand, or rather, I understand only too well, why…
The spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters Children’s Dreams: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1940 [Carl Jung: “The spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters”—like the hen on the egg—He impregnated it.] Professor Jung: This idea also suggested itself to the classical Pythagorean and the Neoplatonist philosophers.…