About Woman in Depth Psychology
Jung, they say, denies to woman any equality with man.
He accuses her of producing secondhand opinions and engaging in all manner of inferior masculine activity, as though she were by nature incapable of real creativity.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
What Jung does affirm is that the creative power in a woman can never come to fruition if she is caught in an unconscious imitation of men or identification with the inferior masculinity in her unconscious. ~Helen Luke, The Way of Woman
This book, she wrote to [Kurt] Wolff, was the work of Jung’s daimon.
As a woman, she conceded, it was perhaps easier for her to adapt to the vagaries of this daimon, whereas Wolff’s masculine ambition and desire to take the lead meant he reacted with bitterness when his plans were thwarted and had to be subordinated. ~ Elena Fischli, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 291-292
Because of this intense desire to understand the soul, as a young doctor I even wished that I could experience schizophrenia myself, or at least have a love affair with a schizophrenic woman, so that I could find out what went on in these people. ~Carl Jung, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, 15 “No Schizophrenia was threatening me.”
IN THE REALM OF THE PSYCHE MIRACLES CAN HAPPEN.
I remember the dream of a woman who dreamt that she saw a little mechanical animal. It was made of diamonds, but it was alive and walked around on the floor. She consulted Jung about the dream, and he said to her, “That is to prove to you that the impossible is possible. You are still too rational. You think such a thing cannot happen. You are not open to miracles, and there are miracles. In the realm of the psyche miracles can happen.” – Marie-Louise von Franz, The Way of the Dream, Page 70.
In general, the extraverted man has an introverted Anima, while the introverted woman has an extraverted Animus, and vice versa. ~Marie-Louise von Franz, Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales Page 30
This I must endure to the end. I am answerable not only to my ego-morality, but also and in equal measure to this second will.
The incarnation, however, means exactly this: God’s will occurs through me.
This I must endure to the end. ~Carl Jung, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 190
The older I grow and the more I observe animals, the greater my admiration for them.
The way an animal experiences the world must be of an unsurpassable abundance and originality. ~Carl Jung, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, 168
The Lord’s words, “Blessed are they who know what they do,” seem in direct contradiction to the other words of Christ, “Forgive them for they know not what they do.”
But life feeds on opposites.
When a little old woman carries wood to the pyre to burn a saint who is thought to be a heretic we might say, “Forgive her, 0 Sancta simplicitas”
We might also say that only he is blessed who knows what-he is doing.
A priori contradictions will always appear in life.
The words of the Bible and the sayings of Christ are paradox.
We too must be paradox, for only then do we live our lives, only
then do we reach completeness and integration of our personalities.
To be whole is to be full of contradictions.
The unity never be comes apparent because the opposites within us operate and mingle in various ways and it is their interaction that makes the whole man.
The complete human being, the hermaphrodite, is never visible. He is indescribable, always a mystical experience. ~Jung-Ostrowski Conversations, Page 4
