Man therefore succumbs to a reactionary mass-mindedness and falls victim to the collective shadow In these circumstances the disoriented, rationalistic consciousness of modern man, having become atomized and split off from the unconscious, gives up the fight because, understandably enough, his isolation in a mass which no longer offers him any psychic support becomes unendurable.…
The hero is an ego hero The patriarchal father-son relationship ousted the once dominant mother figure, Isis, in the religious, psychological, social, and political spheres. Vestiges of the original matriarchal rule still remained, but in historical times they were already overshadowed by the father-king. The investiture and enthronement of the son are based on the…
Edward F. Edinger on Prayers as a Active Imagination Transformation of the God-Image: An Elucidation of Jung’s Answer to Job I thought this would give me an opportunity to say a few words about the psychological implications of the passage that we know of as the Lord’s Prayer. This comes from the sixth chapter of…
The anima is the guide toward the realisation of the Self, but sometimes in a very painful manner. There again loyalty to the reality of the psyche gives the only possible solution, and generally the anima tends to manoeuvre a man into a situation which is meant to be without issue. Jung said that to…
The sacrificer and what is sacrificed are one and the same: it is always the Self. Only by sacrificing what we have can we know what we have. Real sacrifice is made with the same definiteness and lack of bargaining that is involved in throwing something away. We can do this only if we are…