What is Illusion? The Practice of Psychotherapy: Essays on the Psychology of the Transference and Other Subjects (Bollingen Series) By what criterion do we judge something to be an illus!on? Does anything exist for the psyche that we are entitled to call illus!on? What we are pleased to call illusion may be for the psyche…
Carl Jung on Adolph Hitler Adolf Hitler as an infant (c. 1889–1890) There is no question but that Hitler belongs in the category of the truly mystic medicine man. As somebody commented about him at the last Nürnberg party congress, since the time of Mohammed nothing like it has been seen in this world.…
I shall have to write something about the concept of collective guilt C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 To Albert Oeri Dear friend, 26 May 1945 Very many thanks for your kind assessment of my half-baked concoction which I myself found unsatisfactory. You are quite right, of course: it is too pessimistic, or rather, it…
This reconciliation symbolism as a cure for psychic dissociation is found in most religions. C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 Letters of C. G. Jung: Volume I, 1906-1950 (Vol 1) To Pastor Ernst Fischer Dear Pastor Fischer, 21 December 1944 The article you sent me in the Volksblatt may refer to a dreambut the…
Therapist Therapy Anthology Wisdom never forgets that all things have two sides, and it would also know how to avoid such calamities if ever it had any power. ~Carl Jung, Mysterium Conjunctionis, Para 135 As therapists we are subject to the unavoidable destinies of our patients. ~Carl Jung; Conversations with C.G. Jung, Psychotherapy, Page 113.…