Suzanne Gieser: Individual Dream Symbols in Relation to Alchemy In the Terry Lectures, 1937, Jung addressed an academic audience for the first time about the importance of alchemical philosophy. Here Jung chose to discuss Pauli’s dream of the reconstruction of the gibbon (no. 16) and the church dream (no. 17), which he had started to…
When I was in Africa I always went to the places which were said by the Negroes to be haunted LECTURE VI 15June 1932 Today we have a rather crowded program. There are certain questions to deal with,…
James Hillman: Because our Western culture declared “Nature abhors a vacuum,” we abhor emptiness. The Void in the Vessel Each vessel has its particular shape. Inside is emptiness. Each vessel is shaped around this emptiness. Because our Western culture declared “Nature abhors a vacuum,” we abhor emptiness. (“Empty” from Old English meaning “at leisure, unoccupied,”…
Freema Gottlieb: The Kabbla, Jung and the Feminine Image Jung had access through secondary sources to many key concepts of Jewish mysticism. Especially when it comes to descriptions of the psychic accoutrements of femininity, his entire opus bears the distinctive mark of Kabbalistic influence. For example, in discussing gradations of consciousness, he uses a terminology…