Active Imagination : Hugh de St. Victor’s Conversation with His Anima An Early-Twelfth Century Example of Active Imagination Hugh de St. Victor’s Conversation with His Anima Before we begin with our material, I would like to make it clear that I will be concerned with this text only from the standpoint of active imagination. I…
Carl Jung and The Shadow In 1886 the writer Robert Louis Stevenson had a striking dream: a male character, pursued for a crime, swallowed a powder whereupon his personality was instantaneously transformed.! ! Stevenson found his dream so striking that it inspired him to write the now famous tale The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll…
Preface: Essays on Contemporary Events Preface by C.G. Jung Medical psychotherapy, for practical reasons, has to deal with the whole of the psyche. Therefore it is bound to come to terms with all those factors, biological as well as social and mental, which have a vital influence on psychic life. We are living in times of great disruption:…
MarionWoodman: Integration of Body and Soul The task, then, is to bridge “the seeming incommensurability between the physical world and the psychic.” Jung himself attempted to bridge this “seeming incommensurability” in his concept of the psychoid nature of the archetype. “Since psyche and matter are contained in one and the same world,” he writes in…