For it is just as sinful from the standpoint of nature and of truth to be above oneself as to be below oneself. Visions Seminar 10 February 1932 Visions Seminar Lecture IV Here is a question from Mrs. Sawyer: “How does it happen that the shadow assumes such a positive and helpful role? Has the…
In Memoriam: Edward F. Edinger, 1922-1998 A Personal Tribute by Daryl Sharp The writings of Edward Edinger have had a profound effect on my psychological attitude ever since I read his Ego and Archetype in 1976, while I was training in Zurich. I was at that time, and still am, hooked on Jung. To my…
10 June 1931 The Visions Seminar Lecture V Visions Seminar 10 June 1931 The Visions Seminar Lecture V We are now coming to the new series of visions, but continuing the same theme. You remember the Negro’s head was the most important content. The head is, of course, only a part of the body. It…
Modern Day Cannibalism as a “Supreme Act of Devotion.” Visions Seminar In primitive legends the old mother in the West is often a sort of cannibal, and primitive man eats the flesh of the dead. He celebrates cannibal feasts as a sort of sympathetic magic, he does what the earth does in order to increase…
25 March 1931 Visions Seminar Lecture IX Visions Seminar 25 March 1931 Visions Seminar Lecture IX Last time we dealt with the symbol of the eye, which is a very widespread archetypal image; it appears in the history of the human mind at different periods and in many parts of the world. I could have…