Each individual has his own ethical level and form of reaction. There are, for example, thick-skinned people who can afford a lot of what we would call sins. Other people cannot afford anything; as soon as they sidestep a bit from their own inner law, they get the most awful dreams and inner reactions […]…
When this happens, both lovers cannot meet on earth. How does a man whose femininity is locked in the mother complex experience women in outer life? If a man has too close a tie to his mother, especially a positive one, then he tends to idealize women. He sees in every woman the Beatrice of…
Nietzsche, in his identity with Zarathustra. Carl Jung Depth Psychology Facebook Group Nietzsche, in his identity with Zarathustra, reviles the collective man without realizing that he is a collective man himself, so he is really reviling himself […] Unfortunately enough, he has certain thoughts which transcend the lower regions, but that does not mean that…
Patients read the analyst’s character intuitively Carl Jung Depth Psychology Facebook Group Because I know that, despite all rational safeguards, the patient does attempt to assimilate the analyst’s personality, I have laid it down as a requirement […] that the psychoanalyst should first submit himself to the analytical process, as his personality is one of…
The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola: Lecture 13 [16 February 1940] Lecture 13 16 February 1940 We talked last time about the meditation on the peccatum mortale. Today I want to give you an overview of the first week’s meditations, and then we’ll return to the peccatum veniale. The first exercise includes the…