Tabula Smaragdina. Modern Psychology: C. G. Jung’s Lectures at the ETH Zürich, 1933-1941 Lecture VII 20th December, 1940 I read you the text of the “Tabula Smaragdina” at the end of the last lecture. Its importance can hardly be over-estimated, for it had an enormous influence on medieval alchemy. Even the most modern alchemists (if…
The Nature of Four Jung’s Quaternity, Mandalas, the Stone and the Self During a difficult period in his life in which he withdrew from his teaching position and devoted much of his time investigating the nature of the unconscious, Jung frequently painted or drew mandalas, but only learned to understand the mandala symbology many years…
ERICH NEUMANN – AMOR AND PSYCHE Amor and Psyche (Mythos Books) In Search of Cupid and Psyche: Myth and Legend in Children’s Literature ERICH NEUMANN. AMOR AND PSYCHE (1956) The overall presupposition of Neumann’s interpretation is that this story represents a mythical expression of the psychic development of the feminine. This perspective is similar…
Carl Jung and Wolfgang Pauli Atom and Archetype: The Pauli/Jung Letters, 1932-1958 – Updated Edition “When the hard-boiled rationalist… came to consult me for the first time, he was in such a state of panic that not only he but I myself felt the wind blowing over me from the lunatic asylum.” Looking Back: The…
The Jung Schmid Letters The Question of Psychological Types: The Correspondence of C. G. Jung and Hans Schmid-Guisan, 1915–1916 (Philemon Foundation Series) THE JUNG-SCHMID LETTERS Between 1915 and 1916, Jung conducted an extensive theoretical discussion on the question of psychological types with his colleague, Swiss psychiatrist, Hans Schmid-Guisan (1881–1932). Schmid first met Jung in 1911…