Carl Jung: The purified and nourished serpent alchemy is the mercurial serpent. Modern Psychology: C. G. Jung’s Lectures at the ETH Zürich, 1933-1941 The purified and nourished serpent in alchemy is the mercurial serpent, the Ouroboros, which is connected with the round thing. It is one of the basic symbols in alchemy and refers to…
The Lexicon of Auxiliary Function Carl Jung Lexicon NYAAP Auxiliary function: A helpful second or third function, according to Jung’s model of typology, that has a co-determining influence on consciousness. Absolute sovereignty always belongs, empirically, to one function alone, and can belong only to one function, because the equally independent intervention of another function would…
Taoism Anthology The truth is one and the same everywhere and I must say that Taoism is one of the most perfect formulations of it I ever became acquainted with. ~Carl Jung, Letters Volume 1, Pages 559-560. The central idea of Taoism is no moral question, but is the Tao, the indefinable essence of the…
Carl Jung and a Psychological Function Carl Jung Lexicon NYAAP Function: A form of psychic activity, or manifestation of libido, that remains the same in principle under varying conditions. (See also auxiliary functi0n, differentiation, inferi0r function, primary function and typology.) Jung’s model of typology distinguishes four psychological functi0ns: thinking, feeling, sensation and intuition. Sensation establishes…
Carl Jung on Ahura Mazda Nietzsche’s Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar given in 1934-1939. Two Volumes (Jung Seminars Book 600) The dogmatic teaching is that in the beginning there was one all-wise and all-powerful god called Mazda (which means simply the wise one, something like Lao tze) with the attribute of Ahura. Ahura is the…