Marie-Louise von Franz: Archetypal Dimensions of the Psyche [The Self] When a person has inwardly struggled with his anima or with her animus for a sufficiently long time and has reached the point where he or she is no longer identified with it in an unconscious fashion, the unconscious once again takes on a new…
Members of Nietzche’s Zarathustra Notes of the Seminar given by C.G. Jung in 1934-1939 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The editor of a work as richly allusive as any of J ung-but especially in the seminar notes, which he did not himself provide footnotes formust seek help from colleagues, acquaintances, and highly recommended strangers on matters historical, theological, astronomical,…
The Rose Maiden 473 Another tale from Transylvania, «The Rose Maiden;» also has the horses take on decisive actions and can be useful to amplify the earlier tales. 474 Once there was a woman who lived in the forest. One day she came upon a poor orphan boy who had lost his way. She took…
The Syzygy: Anima and Animus in Jung’s Aion Jung begins his chapter on the syzygy in paragraph 20 of Aion, using the term to describe the masculine and feminine principles yoked together in the psyche. Derived from the Greek syn (with) and zygon (yoke), the word originally referred to the cross-bar of a harness that…