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Mare-Louise von Franz Puer Aeternus

Accompanying this neurosis is often, a savior or Messiah complex

Accompanying this neurosis is often, a savior or Messiah complex This all leads to a form of neurosis which II. G. Baynes has described as the “provisional life”; that is, the strange attitude and feeling that the woman is not yet what is really wanted, and there is always the fantasy that sometime in the… 

archetype

We must first return to simpler facts to the individual numbers

We must first return to simpler facts to the individual numbers Through the discovery of the unconscious it has now become possible to throw a clearer light on these hitherto vaguely surmised relationships. If, following Jung’s suggestion, we admit that the unconscious participates in the formation of our representations of natural numbers, then all statements… 

magic

Magic and music have stood under the rule of the Archetypal Feminine

Magic and music have stood under the rule of the Archetypal Feminine While the Eternal Feminine in Faust II still appears in personalized form as the Madonna, she works her effects in The Magic Flute as an invisible spiritual power, as music. But this music is the expression of divine love itself, which unites law… 

ego

In the uroboric situation, however, the ego is still germinal and consciousness

In the uroboric situation, however, the ego is still germinal and consciousness In these circumstances, when consciousness is insufficiently differentiated from the unconscious, and the ego from the the group member finds himself as much at the mercy of group reactions as of unconscious constellations. The fact that he is preconscious and preindividual leads him…