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The great Christian symbol is a living thing

The Christian symbol is a living thing As at the beginning of the Christian Era, so again today we are faced with the problem of the moral backwardness which has failed to keep pace with our scientific, technical and social developments. ~Carl Jung, The Undiscovered Self, This is not to say that Christianity is finished.… 

madman

1. Madman and the mob are both moved by great impersonal Forces

Madman and the mob are both moved by great impersonal Forces Psychology and Religion: West and East (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 11) Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be. When fate, for… 

Mother archetype

1. Carl Jung and “Mother” in The Black Books

Carl Jung and “Mother” in The Black Books Jung: What then will remain of me? Mother: “Nothing but your shadow.” Jung: But where is my I? Mother: “Nowhere. No longer are you an I, but a river that pours forth over the lands. It seeks every valley and streams toward the depths, toward the sea.”… 

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Dedicated to the Soul: The Writings and Drawings of Emma Jung Jung, Emma

Dedicated to the Soul: The Writings and Drawings of Emma Jung Jung A richly illustrated collection of never-before-seen writings and drawings from the notebooks, portfolios, and personal papers of C. G. Jung’s wife and collaborator Emma Jung (1882–1955) was the life and work partner of one of the great intellectual figures of the twentieth century,…