Vincent Brome Prologue to Jung: A Biography Jung by Vincent Brome (1978-10-23) Prologue There were occasions in his eighties when, meeting Carl Gustav Jung on a cold winter day, one encountered a tall, slightly bent man wrapped in a full-length, fur-lined dressing-gown with a dark skull-cap fitting tightly on the white hair, and it was … Read more
Even the enlightened person remains what he is “Even the enlightened person remains what he is, and is never more than his own limited ego before the One who dwells within him, whose form has no knowable boundaries, who encompasses him on all sides, fathomless as the abysms of the earth and vast as the … Read more
What forced me to come here if not those “other” realities? Black Books It seems as if compulsory realities exist here. What forced me to come here if not those “other” realities? Apparently they are somehow superior to me as I did not know anything about them, whereas they knew about me and forced me-could … Read more
The Great and Puzzling Problem of Symbols Government Exhibit of The Red Book The “Great and Puzzling Problem” of Symbols In this letter to Smith Ely Jelliffe (1866-1945), an American physician, teacher, medical editor, and pioneering psychotherapist, Jung discusses schizophrenic patients and includes examples of drawings they produced. The images contain what Jung termed “Bruchlinien,” … Read more