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
Theory gives Facts their Value Psychology of the Unconscious Guglielmo Ferrero “Therefore theory, which gives to facts their value and significance, is often very useful, even if it is partially false, for it throws light on phenomena which no one observed, it forces an studied, and it gives the impulse foi more extended and more … Read more
The Remarkable Journey to India Jung The Remarkable Journey to India G. Jung’s assistant and later successor at the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich, C. A. Meier, gave an account of a private seminar in 1930 in which Jung discussed the case of a patient who in the course of her analysis described the … Read more
You only can help people to understand themselves. Letters of C. G. Jung: Volume I, 1906-1950 (Vol 1) To J. Allen Gilbert My dear Dr. Gilbert, 19 June 1927 Analysis is not only a “diagnosis” but rather an understanding and a moral support in the honest experimental attempt one calls “life.” For the individual you … Read more