Jung accords special significance to Joachim of Fiore Black Books In Alon (CW 9i, Para 139ff.), Jung accords special significance to Joachim of Fiore (1135-1202), who spoke of a series of three states of the world of increasing spirituality: the Age of the Father, corresponding to the Old Testament, characterized by obedience to the rules of…
The Visions Seminars 18 February 1931 Visions Seminar 18 February 1931, Visions Seminar, Lecture V Last week I read the first sentence of the new series of visions referring to the sacrifice of the sheep. That is the Christian sacrifice of the lamb, as I explained. Today I will give you the whole text of…
This lack of parallelism is not just accidental or purposeless, Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche Experience in analytical psychology has amply shown that the conscious and the unconscious seldom agree as to their contents and their tendencies. This lack of parallelism is not just accidental or purposeless, but is due to the fact that…
Death: His personal transformation, his individuation, was a preparation for death. Black Books In the Black Books in the 1920s, one finds the lengthening shadows of death, commencing with Jung’s grief at his mother’s death, followed by the premature deaths of close friends (Hermann Sigg in 1927, and Hans Schmid in 1932) and patients (George…
11 March 1931 Visions Seminar LECTURE VII Visions Seminar We got as far last time as the union of that pair of opposites, the two white snakes that approached this woman and said that they were night and day, good and evil, her two eyes, her two hands, and her two feet. And I tried…