Carl Jung: We can never abandon self, or else we will abandon our work of redemption. Black Books It lies in giving. One should give what one can relinquish or the abundance that makes one suffer. Otherwise one gives according to the principle of the do ut des. The joy I have intentionally given to the other obliges…
Carl Jung Depth Psychology Facebook Group Visions Seminar 3 March 1931 Visions Seminar Lecture VI We will continue our discussion of the symbol of the tree. We spoke about the meaning of the transformation into the tree, but we must also consider the picture of the situation. You remember our patient is in a wood…
His nature is like the flame; he is like Eros, but a God; Eros is only a daimon. Black Books The God of the frogs or toads, the brainless, is the uniting of the Christian God with Satan. His nature is like the flame; he is like Eros, but a God; Eros is only a daimon. ~Jung’s Soul,…
Carl Jung: Why are people such fools that they do not simply do this? Black Books Thursday. Jung saw one patient. Scrutinies {4} (IN, pp. 483ff.). On November 6, he concluded his theoretical correspondence with Hans Schmid in a manner that signaled a return to the elaboration of his fantasies in the Black Books. On November 5,…
The atom of which the physicist speaks is not an hypostasis, it is a model. Psychology and Alchemy Psychology, like every empirical science, cannot get along without auxiliary concepts, hypotheses, and models. But the theologian as well as the philosopher is apt to make the mistake of taking them for metaphysical postulates. The atom of…