Carl Jung on the Dog Children’s Dreams: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1940 The dog is the gravedigger who disposes of the bodies, as happened in ancient times in Persia. There it was also customary to lead a dog to the bed of a dying person who then had to grant the dog a…
Carl Jung: The archetype compensates this state of spiritual deficiency The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.9 Part 1) The figure of the wise old man can appear so plastically, not only in dreams but also in visionary meditation (or what we call imagination”), that, as is sometimes apparently the…
Carl Jung and Catholicism and Protestantism C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 To Pastor H. Wegmann Dear Pastor Wegmann, 6 December 1945 Your standpoint, I think, is sufficiently clear. I have nothing against it in principle, since Protestantism stands or falls by it. There must be individual freedom in Biblical exegesis. The only question seems…
Carl Jung on “why one’s fate always strives for posthumous recognition. C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 To Alwine von Keller Dear Frau von Keller, 21 August 1944 Best thanks for your long letter. I have heard nothing from Frau X. for a long time. I only hope things are going better with her. She…
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves Memories, Dreams, Reflections [Carl Jung: “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves” in context.] We always require an outside point to stand on, in order to apply the lever of criticism. This is especially…