On the Psychology of the Trickster Figure ~C.G. Jung It is no light task for me to write about the figure of the trickster in American Indian mythology within the confined space of a commentary. When I first came across Adolf Bandelier’s classic on this subject, The Delight Makers, many years ago, I was struck…
Carl Jung on “Aztecs” – Quotations Carl Jung Depth Psychology Facebook Group Among the Taos Pueblos, a virgin was made pregnant by beautiful stones and bore a hero son, who, owing to Spanish influence, assumed the aspect of the Christ child. The stone plays a similar role in the Aztec cycle of legends. For instance,…
Carl Jung on the Pope Anthology Pope with the unicorn as the symbol of the Holy Ghost.—From Scaligcr, Explanntio imaginum (1570); antithesis to Paracelsus, Auslegung der Figuren (1569) ~Editor, CW 12, Image 261 So, you see, I brought these people back into the Church, with the result that the Pope himself gave me a private…
It is a striking paradox in all child myths that the “child” Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious It is a striking paradox in all child myths that the “child” is on the one hand delivered helpless into the power of terrible enemies and in continual danger of extinction, while on the other he possesses powers…