The problem of love (Eros) and power came down upon me like a leaden weight. Carl Jung Depth Psychology Facebook Group Memories Dreams Reflections After that second conversation in Vienna I also understood Alfred AdIer’s power hypothesis, to which I had hitherto paid scant attention. Like many sons, Adler had learned from his “father” not…
Carl Jung on Yoga and Karma Psychology of Yoga and Meditation In connection with the Yoga Sûtra, I told you last time that the practice consists of overcoming and subduing the kleshas. Klesha can be translated as compulsive urges—an instinctive type of impulse, or an inescapable mechanism, things that man is subject to, specifically understood…
I consider the puer aeternus attitude an unavoidable evil. Letters Vol. II To Oskar A.H. Schmitz Dear Herr Schmitz, 23 February 1931 I consider the puer aeternus attitude an unavoidable evil. Identity with the former signifies a psychological puerility that could do nothing better than outgrow itself. It…
Agni from the earth, Vayu from the air, and Aditya from heaven. Psychology of Yoga and Meditation A hymn from the Rigveda says: What was hidden in the shell, Was born through the power of fiery torments. From this first arose love, As the Germ of knowledge, The wise found the roots of existence in…
How can I be substantial without casting a shadow? Practice of Psychotherapy We may well take this saying as a motto for the first stage in psychotherapeutic treatment. The beginnings of psychoanalysis are in fact nothing else than the scientific rediscovery of an ancient truth; even the name that was given to the earliest method—catharsis,…