Carl Jung: One could describe these movements . . . as levitation, Jung’s Last Years and Other Essays (Jungian Classics Series) In 1961, the year of his death, looking back on the phenomena he had observed, Jung wrote in a letter: “I have seen objects moving that were not directly touched, and moreover under absolutely … Read more
The symbolic story of the beginning, which speaks to us from the mythology of all ages, The form of representation peculiar to the unconscious is not that of the conscious mind. It neither attempts nor is able to seize hold of and define its objects in a series of discursive explanations, and reduce them to … Read more
Man therefore succumbs to a reactionary mass-mindedness and falls victim to the collective shadow In these circumstances the disoriented, rationalistic consciousness of modern man, having become atomized and split off from the unconscious, gives up the fight because, understandably enough, his isolation in a mass which no longer offers him any psychic support becomes unendurable. … Read more
The hero is an ego hero The patriarchal father-son relationship ousted the once dominant mother figure, Isis, in the religious, psychological, social, and political spheres. Vestiges of the original matriarchal rule still remained, but in historical times they were already overshadowed by the father-king. The investiture and enthronement of the son are based on the … Read more