Jung’s Anima: Salome cooks poisonous potions. She is a Medea, adept in magic.
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26 VIII. 18.
My soul, what is going on? What’s brewing? I’m seized by uneasiness!
Anima. You’ve waited for too long. Why didn’t you ask earlier?
I. I thought that I must let things happen.
A. Yes, but you still need to take care of what is yours. You should have asked. I had to make you uneasy.
Salome cooks poisonous potions. She is a Medea, adept in magic.
A: I. What is she doing?
A. Ask her.
I. Salome, what are you doing?
Sal. I will get my revenge. Why have you given me a meaning? I don’t want to have a meaning. I only want sensation. I want,. the bare event.
I. But what if nothing happens?
Sal. Everything will happen according to its time. I have prepared poison for you if you don’t let it happen.
I. What should I let happen?
Sal. Whatever prepares pleasure.
I. Express yourself more clearly. What are you doing X:* and what do you want to do?
Sal. I want sensation. Do not disturb the event.
I. I won’t disturb it, but I want to know.
Sal. You shouldn’t know. You should let things happen.
I. I let things happen, but what do you strike up around me?
Sal. I will disturb your peace.
I. Why?
Sal. Because you should not look on calmly, but irritated. I irritate you. I. To what end?
Sal. Your irritation is good for women. It excites them. They need your irritation, otherwise they do nothing.
I. My soul, tell me, is that true?
A. Some of it is true. Women must have grounds, otherwise they let too much happen.
You must accept this irritation, let it be seen; it excites, as Salome rightly says.
You can do nothing. Accept and take care of yourself. You must suffer somewhat. You cannot make it happen. Patience, much patience.
Sal. will speak.
Sal. I must somewhat upset you. If you are too peaceful, then you give the appearance that everything is in order.
Commands are not useful, just feeling. You are too impatient. You have the power devil in you. Everything must happen as it does.
There is nothing to do. Others must also have their share in life.
I. My soul, do you know something beyond this?
A. Nothing to give away. I advise attachment. ~The Black Books, Vol. VII, Page 194-195
[A}Abbreviation for “Anima.”
This is the first place in the Black Books where Jung identifies the soul as the anima.
In an undated revision to his 1916 paper “The Structure of the Unconscious,” he introduced the notion of the anima as a
counterpart to that of the persona.
He regarded both of these as “subject-imagoes.” Here, he defined the anima as “how the subject is seen by the collective unconscious” (CW 7, § 521).
In 1921, he wrote “The inner personality is the way one behaves in relation to one’s inner psychic processes; it is the inner attitude, the characteristic face, that it is turned towards the unconscious.
I call the outer attitude, the outward face, the persona; the inner attitude, the inner face, I call the anima” (CW 7 § 803).
The inner attitude was the soul, which had a complementary relation to the persona. In women, he named this the animus. ~The Black Books, Vol. VI, Page 194, fn 124
Carl Jung on Salome – Anthology
A thinker should fear Salome, since she wants his head, especially if he is a holy man. A thinker cannot be a holy person, otherwise he loses his head. It does not help to hide oneself in thought. There the solidification overtakes you. You must turn back to motherly forethought to obtain renewal. But forethought leads to Salome. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 248.
The prophet loved God, and this sanctified him. But Salome did not love God, and this profaned her. But the prophet did not love Salome, and this profaned him. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 248.
Salome loves me, do I love her? I hear wild music, a tambourine, a sultry moonlit night, the bloody-staring head of the holy one—fear seizes me. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 264.
So—you see: even banal reality is a redeemer. I thank you, dear friend, and I bring you greetings from Salome. ~Scholar’s Daughter to Carl Jung, The Red Book, Pages 262-3.
He [Jung] showed a diagram of a cross with Rational/Thinking (Elijah) at the top, Feeling (Salome) at the bottom, Irrational / Intuition (Superior) at the left, and Sensation / Inferior (Serpent) at the right. ~The Red Book, Page 247, Footnote 173.
Salome is hence apparently no (complete) correct embodiment of Eros, but a variety of the same. (This supposition is later confirmed.) That she is actually an incorrect allegory for Eros also stems from the fact that she is blind. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 365.
Salome is represented as the daughter of Elijah, thus expressing the order of succession. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 365.
My pleasure is dead and turned to stone, because I did not love Salome. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 250, Draft, Footnote 198.
Salome’s approach and her worshiping of me is obviously that side of the inferior function which is surrounded by an aura of evil. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 253. Footnote 211.
It is strange that Salome’s garden lies so close to the dignified and mysterious hall of ideas. Does a thinker therefore experience awe or perhaps even fear of the idea, because of its proximity to paradise? ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 249, Draft, Footnote 178.
I see in splendor the mother of God with the child. Peter stands in front of her in admiration-then Peter alone with the key-the Pope with a triple crown-a Buddha sitting rigidly in a circle of fire-a many-armed bloody Goddess-it is Salome desperately wringing her hands-it takes hold of me, she is my own soul, and now I see Elijah in the image of the stone. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 248.
I: “How can I love you? How do you come to this question? I see only one thing, you are Salome, a tiger, your hands are stained with the blood of the holy one. How should I love you?” ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 246.
S: “You do me wrong. Elijah is my father, and he knows the deepest mysteries. The walls of his house are made of precious stones. His wells hold healing water and his eyes see the things of the future. And what wouldn’t you give for a single look into the infinite unfolding of what is to come? Are these not worth a sin for you?” ~Salome to Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 246.
E: “She loved the prophet who announced the new God to the world. She loved him, do you understand that? For she is my daughter.” ~Elijah to Carl Jung on Salome, Liber Novus, Page 246
Apart from Elijah and Salome I found the serpent as a third principle. It is a stranger to both principles although it is associated with both. The serpent taught me the unconditional difference in essence between the two principles in me. ~Carl Jung and Elijah, Liber Novus, Page 247.
The place where Elijah and Salome live together is a dark space and a bright one. The dark space is the space of forethinking. It is dark so he who lives there requires vision. ~Carl Jung and Elijah, Liber Novus, Page 247.
A thinker who descends in to his fore thinking finds his next step leading into the garden of Salome. Therefore the thinker fears his forethought, although he lives on the foundation of fore thinking. The visible surface is safer than the underground. Thinking protects against the way of error, and therefore it leads to petrification. ~Carl Jung and Elijah, Liber Novus, Page 248.
A thinker should fear Salome, since she wants his head, especially if he is a holy man. A thinker cannot be a holy person, otherwise he loses his head. It does not help to hide oneself in thought. There the solidification overtakes you. You must turn back to motherly forethought to obtain renewal. But forethought leads to Salome. ~Carl Jung and Elijah, Liber Novus, Page 248.
Because I was a thinker and caught sight of the hostile principle of pleasure from forethinking, it appeared to me as Salome. If I had been one who felt, and had groped my way toward forethinking, then it would have appeared to me as a serpent-encoiled daimon, if I had actually seen it. ~Carl Jung and Elijah, Liber Novus, Page 248.
In the garden it had to become apparent to me that I loved Salome. This recognition struck me, since I had not thought it. What a thinker does not think he believes does not exist, and what one who feels does not feel he believes does not exist. You begin to have a presentiment of the whole when you embrace your opposite principle, since the whole belongs to both principles, which grow from one root. ~Carl Jung and Elijah, Liber Novus, Page 248.
In my case the anima contains not only Salome, but some of the serpent, which is sensation as well. ~Carl Jung, 1925 Seminar, Page 100
Salome’s performance was deification. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 253. Footnote 211.
