It has come to my ears through Dr. Maeder that you doubt my bona fides. The Freud/Jung Letters Seestrasse, Kusnacht-Zurich, Dear Professor Freud 27 October 1913 It has come to my ears through Dr. Maeder that you doubt my bona fides. I would have expected you to communicate with me directly on so weighty a…
Freud had to give up the editorship of the Zentralblatt C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 To Trigant Burrow My dear Burrow, 26 December 1912 I am very glad to have your letter and the manuscript. I suppose you heard of the great change in Vienna, where Freud and Stekel are in full disagreement. Stekel…
It does not surprise me that psychology debouches into philosophy C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 It does not surprise me that psychology debouches into philosophy, for the thinking that underlies philosophy is after all a psychic activity which, as such, is the proper study of psychology. I always think of psychol0gy as encompassing the…
Carl Jung on the Old Alchemists. Psychology and Alchemy (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.12) The old alchemists were nearer to the central truth of the psyche than Faust when they strove to deliver the fiery spirit from the chemical elements, and treated the mystery as though it lay in the dark and silent womb…
Carl Jung on Agathodaimon Anthology The snake in alchemy is the “mercurial serpent”, the old Gnostic image for the Nous, the mind, where the spirit was represented as a serpent, as the Agathodaemon (the good daemon), or directly called the serpent of the Nous. ~Carl Jung, ETH, Alchemy, Page 215. The dead in general are…