These are the demands I put to a pupil. C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 To Otto Korner Dear Colleague, 22 March 1935 Thank you for your letter. I am in some doubt as to whether the faithful account you have given of the meaning of my psychology will be properly understood by anyone who,…
Agathodaemon and the Afterlife The Agathodaemon and Afterlife Roman marble sculpture of Agathodaemon restored with an unrelated head, as “Antinous Agathodaemon”, purchased in Rome ca. 1760, (Staatliche Museen, Berlin) The myth of the agathodaemon can neither be proved nor disproved. “Agatho” stems from the Greek “to agathon,” meaning the highest or supreme good in a…
Carl Jung and James Kirsch and the Jewish Question The Jung-Kirsch Letters: The Correspondence of C.G. Jung and James Kirsch Letters between James Kirsch and CG Jung ~By Thomas B. Kirsch, M.D. I always knew that there were letters from CG Jung to my father among the papers he left behind, although I did not…
Today I will briefly recapitulate the exercitia spiritualia. The Jung-Kirsch Letters: The Correspondence of C.G. Jung and James Kirsch Lecture III 22nd November, 1940 Today I will briefly recapitulate the exercitia spiritualia. These exercises were the invention of ST. IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA, but they have their forerunners in previous history. They originated from two main…
Carl Jung quotations When one considers that for over 50 years there has been a definite conception of the unconscious which is supported by empirically demonstrable facts, it is little short of amazing that philosophers still haven’t found the time to do anything but pooh-pooh it. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 559-560 I was…