Man’s capacity for wholesale suicide Memories, Dreams, Reflections Man is bound to follow the adventurous prompting of his scientific and inventive mind and admire himself for his splendid achievements. At the same time his genius, the uncanny tendency to invent things, becomes more and more dangerous, because they represent better means for wholesale suicide. ~Carl…
Some Carl Jung Quotations LII Man is the mirror which God holds up to himself, or the sense organ with which he apprehends his being. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Page 112 As you know, in olden times the ancestral souls lived in pots in the kitchen. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. I, Page 168 Incidentally,…
It would help our psychological research considerably. C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 To Mark Wyman Richardson Dear Dr. Richardson, 14 June 1934 Thank you very much for kindly sending me the offprints of the Margery case I know the case from the Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research, but I’m indeed very…
The sacrifice has been accomplished The Red Book The sacrifice has been accomplished: the divine child, the image of the God’s formation, is slain, and I have eaten from the sacrificial flesh. The child, that is, the image of the God’s formation, not only bore my human craving, but also enclosed all the primordial and…