To live oneself means to be one’s own task The Red Book (Philemon) To live oneself means: to be one’s own task. Never say that it is a pleasure to live oneself It will be no joy but a long suffering, since you must become your own creator. If you want to create yourself then…
Wolfgang Pauli and the Pauli Effect Atom and Archetype: The Pauli/Jung Letters, 1932-1958 Dear Professor Jung, Zollikon-Zurich, 16 June 1948 When that amusing “Pauli effect” of the overturned vase occurred, on the occasion of the founding of the Jung Institute, I had the immediate and vivid impression that I should “pour out water inside” (“innen…
Abase yourself and live your Animal The Red Book (Philemon) If you read the books of history, you will find men who sought the strange and incredible, who ensnared themselves and who were held captive by others in wolves lairs; men who sought the highest and the lowest, and who were wiped by fate, incomplete,…
For us the zone of disturbance already begins with the concept of the psychic. The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche (Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 8) Restriction to material reality carves an exceedingly large chunk out of reality as a whole, but it nevertheless remains a fragment only, and all round it is…
Carl Jung: The results obtained by this method can be interpreted in several ways C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 To Smith Ely Jelliffe Dear Dr. Jelliffe, 26 February 1936 The reports of my seminars are mere protocols which are exclusively destined for members of the said seminars. They wouldn’t be fit for scientific use.…