It is our own repressed desires that stick like arrows in our flesh. Carl Jung Depth Psychology Facebook Group Symbols of Transformation The same idea is expressed in the following passage from the discourses of the Buddha: But if those sensual pleasures fail the person who desires and wishes for them, he will suffer, pierced…
23 January 1935 LECTURE I Zarathustra Seminar Zarathustra Seminar Prof Jung: Ladies and Gentlemen: We were speaking a while ago of the Oxyrhynchus papyrus. Do you remember in what connection? Mrs. Fierz: The Ein-siedler and the Zwei-siedler. Prof. Jung: Yes, I said that Nietzsche, by this play of words, brings in the idea that if…
As a boy I was the victim of a sexual assault by a man I once worshipped. Freud – Jung Letters Dear Professor Freud, Burgholzli-Zurich, 28October 1907 I immediately put your good advice’ about the case of obsessional neurosis into practice with good results. Heartiest thanks. The Nacke” affair is most amusing. In any case N. is…
1934 21 November LECTURE 7 Zarathustra Seminar Zarathustra Seminar Dr. Jung: I have still another contribution to the symbol of the eagle and the serpent. I happened to come across it in the Gilgamesh epic. It is a different kind of symbolism, yet the meaning is particularly clear. You probably remember the two important figures…
1934 7 November LECTURE 5 Zarathustra Seminar Zarathustra Seminar Dr. Jung: Last week Mrs. Baynes asked a question which apparently I did not understand and now she corrects it: “I asked if one could say that from now on, i.e., after the sleep at the foot of the tree, the events could be said to…