Carl Jung: We no longer live on what we have. Memories Dreams Reflections “We no longer live on what we have, but on promises, no longer in the present day, but in the darkness of the future, which, we expect, will at last bring the proper sunrise. We refuse to recognize that everything better is … Read more
Carl Jung on the Ancestral Elements of our Soul Carl Jung Depth Psychology Facebook Group Memories Dreams Reflections “Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The “newness” in the individual psyche is an endlessly varied recombination of age-old components. … Read more
Carl Jung on “Libido.” Lexicon. Jung Lexicon NYAAP Libido: Psychic energy in general. Libido can never be apprehended except in a definite form; that is to say, it is identical with fantasy-images. And we can only release it from the grip of the unconscious by bringing up the corresponding fantasy-images.[“The Technique of Differentiation,” CW 7, … Read more
Carl Jung on “Detachment.” Modern Psychology: C. G. Jung’s Lectures at the ETH Zürich, 1933-1941 Lecture VII 9th June, 1939 You will remember that I read you a long passage from Meister Eckhart’s sermon on “Detachment” at the end of the last lecture. This is, as we saw, a western conception of the separation between … Read more