8 March 1933 Visions Seminar LECTURE VI Visions Seminar I don’t know whether you got a clear idea about that hermaphrodite symbol last time; I can quite understand it if you did not, for the unconscious in that case did not invent a very good form-“the head of a woman, the hands of a man,…
7 February 1934 Visions Seminar LECTURE III Visions Seminar Our last seminar produced two very complicated questions. Miss Hannah says: “I should be very grateful if you would say a few words about the best attitude to take towards the Self in the aspect you talked of last seminar: that of not wanting this or…
Carl Jung: The answer to human life is not to be found within the limits of human life. C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 To Linda Gray Oppenheim Dear Mrs. Oppenheim, 12 August 1933 A year ago I heard through a friend of Mr. Oppenheim’ s most unexpected death. Yes, it is true, such a…
3 May 1933 Visions Seminar LECTURE I Visions Seminar Ladies and Gentlemen: Our last seminar ended with the vision of the terrible mother goddess, that most archaic and many breasted idol within another idol. The patient did not know what to do about that figure, but finally told her guide that she would pass it,…
The soul of humanity is like the great wheel of the zodiac that rolls along the way. Red Book But what is the resolution? It is always something ancient and precisely because of this something new, for when something long since passed away comes back again in a changed world, it is new. To…