The empathetic type suffers a similar fate Psychological Types (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Vol. 6) (Bollingen Series XX) Faced with the bewildering profusion of animated objects, we create an abstraction, an abstract universal image which conjures the welter of impressions into a fixed form. This image has the magical significance of a…
He must obey his own law The Development of Personality CW 17 “The fact that a man who goes his own way ends in ruin means nothing…He must obey his own law, as if it were a daemon whispering to him of new and wonderful paths…There are not a few who are called awake by…
The whole art lies in extracting wisdom from stupidity. Psychology and Religion: West and East (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 11) The man who is only wise and only holy interests me about as much as the skeleton of a rare saurian, which would not move me to tears. The insane contradiction,…
The Seven Sermons to The Dead The Red Book: A Reader’s Edition (Philemon) The Seven Sermons to the Dead Septem Sermones ad Mortuos by Carl Gustav Jung, 1916 (Translation by Stephan A. Hoeller) Seven exhortations to the dead, written by Basilides of Alexandria, the city where East and West meet. The dead came back from…
The dream that preceded Jung’s concept of the collective unconscious Memories, Dreams, Reflections The dream that preceded Jung’s concept of the collective unconscious, with his comments about it from Memories, Dreams, Reflections: “This was the dream. I was in a house I did not know, which had two stories. It was ‘my house.’ I found…