Carl Jung on the death of Toni Wolff Letters of C. G. Jung: Volume 2, 1951-1961 To James Kirsch: Dear Colleague, Bollingen, 28 May 1953 At last I can find time to thank you personally for the kind letter you wrote to me on the occasion of the death of Toni Wolff. On the day…
Carl Jung on the Archetype of the Spirit As the horse is the brother, so the snake is the sister of Chiwantopel (“my little sister”). Rider and horse form a centaur-like unit, like man and his shadow, i.e., the higher and lower man, ego-consciousness and shadow, Gilgamesh and Enkidu. In the same way the feminine…
I shall hardly be spared the reproach of mysticism. Psychology of the Unconscious This time I shall hardly be spared the reproach of mysticism. But perhaps the facts should be fuller considered, doubtless the unconscious remnants, for it is one of the essential tasks of analysis to render impotent by dissolution the content of the…
In Defense of Sabina Spielrein Zvi Lothane, MD On revient toujours à ses premiers amours (first love springs eternal) (Freud, 1905). In the history of the psychoanalytic movement no other schism rivals the one between psychoanalytic titans Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) and Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) in its doctrinal, political and personal aspects. I…
I would be very chary of the assumption of make-believe. C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 To Dr. S. Dear Colleague, 28 January 1935 Your question about dreams relates to the little explored problem of the attitude of the dreamer to what is dreamt. There are various levels of realization, different degrees of intensity and…