I would strongly advise you to do this bit of analysis with a woman, C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 Anonymous Dear Fraulein N., 23 May 1935 As it is at the moment essentially a question of consolidating your personality, I would strongly advise you to do this bit of analysis with a woman, since…
Every man carries within him the eternal image of woman Every man carries within him the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite feminine image. This image is fundamentally unconscious, an hereditary factor of primordial origin engraved in the living organic system of the man,…
When the Anima brings forth she dies. Mrs. Jung: Could you say something about the relation of the animus to immortality in the same way that you discussed the anima and immortality? Dr. Jung: The animus seems to go back only to the fourteenth century, and the anima to remote antiquity, but with the animus…
It is wonderful to see medieval mentality still at its best. C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 To H. G. Baynes My dear Peter, 27 May 1941 Thank you very much for your long letter! Your lecturing activity is really astonishing. But I can understand that the public realizes a certain need to compensate the…
Carl Jung upbraids a colleague C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 Anonymous Dear Colleague, 6 August 1938 It is remarkable how people can act so dumb when dealing with inner figures. Forgive me, but that’s what you are doing. When you are treating a woman with an animus that proclaims the opinions of her father…