Mythological Gods as Archetypes Marie Louise Von Franz on Solar/Lunar Mythology Mythological Gods as Archetypes: In our language a mythological god is an archetype and an archetype is always at the same time an instinctive pattern, an instinctive basis. Of the archetype of the mother, the biological basis would be motherhood, or of the archetype…
An international movement can only come into being if everyone goes along with it. C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 To J. H. van der Hoop Dear Colleague, 19 January 1935 With regard to the negotiations for the next Congress I have asked the Swiss representative of the secretariat, Dr. Meier, to send you the…
Carl Jung Letter on Technology C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 A Letter to the Zurich Student At the Federal Polytechnic Institute in Zurich September 1949 C.G. Jung The question you ask me, concerning the effect of technology on the human psyche, is not at all easy to answer, as you may well imagine. The…
Pre-Christian sources of the Trinity Concept from Greece. Psychology and Religion: West and East (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 11) III. GREECE In enumerating the pre-Christian sources of the Trinity concept, we should not omit the mathematical speculations of the Greek philosophers. As we know, the philosophizing temper of the Greek mind…
Freud, Jung and the Collective Unconscious By David Elkind Freud, Jung and the Collective Unconscious Freud, Jung and the Collective Unconscious By David Elkind Oct. 4, 1970 On Nov. 24, 1912, Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung, who Freud once hoped would succeed him as the leader of the psychoanalytic movement, met for next to…