You clearly understand that I am not a mystic but an empiricist. Letters of C. G. Jung: Volume I, 1906-1950 (Vol 1) To Norbert Drewitt, O.P. Dear Father, 25 September 1937 I am much obliged to you for kindly sending me your offprints and notes. It has interested me very much indeed to read them.…
The End of Meaning and the Birth of Man Wolfgang Giegerich: The End of Meaning and the Birth of Man “No, evidently we no longer have any myth.” “Our myth has become mute, and gives no answers.” [Today] “we stand empty-handed, bewildered, and perplexed […]” “There are no longer any gods whom we could invoke…
Carl Jung on “Friedrich Nietzsche” – Anthology When Nietzsche said, “God is dead,” he uttered a truth which is valid for the greater part of Europe. People were influenced by it not because he said so, but because it stated a widespread psychological fact. ~Carl Jung, CW 11, Para 145. Jung said that people often…
Dr. Jung on Freud and Adler Carl Jung Depth Psychology Facebook Group Letters Volume I To Ernst Hanhart Dear Colleague, 2 March 1957 Best thanks for your explanatory remarks. With your permission, I will annotate your MS in places I should be glad if you would treat my analysis of Freud’s character with discretion. I…
Psychology and Alchemy But the doctor who fails to take account of man’s feelings for values commits a serious blunder, and if he tries to correct the mysterious and well-nigh inscrutable workings of nature with his so-called scientific attitude, he is merely putting his shallow sophistry in place of nature’s healing processes. Let us…