Marie-Louise von Franz: Analytical Psychology and Literary Criticism IT IS INEVITABLE that psychologys hould deal withl iterature,s ince both spring from the same womb: the human psyche. The great new discoveryi n psychologya t the beginningo f the centuryw as Sigmund Freud’s discovery of the unconscious, which, however, he conceived as purely personal, belonging to…
Mircea Eliade Mystery and Spiritual Regeneration in Extra-European Religions i. Australian Cosmology and Mythology The mysteries of the Karadjeri—that is to say, their secret initiation ceremonies— are bound up with cosmogony, as is indeed the entire ritual life of this people. In the burari times (“dream times”), when the world was created and human societies…
Jon Marshall: Jung, Alchemy and History Jung and Alchemy Jung attempted to explain the obscurity of alchemy, the drive of its marked and colourful symbols, and the reality behind people’s reporting the discovery of things, like the Philosophers’ Stone, which we might regard as chemically impossible. Basically Jung argued that the alchemical work acted as…
Carl Jung: Visions and altered states From: Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963), pp. 169-70, 265-8, 270-6, 276-7 Towards the autumn of 1913 the pressure which I had felt was in me seemed to be moving outwards, as though there were something in the air. The atmosphere actually seemed to me darker than it had been. It was as…
Daniela Boccassini: At the Roots of Jung’s Alchemy Part I: The Red Book’s Alchemical Quaternion In the last resort there is no good that cannot produce evil and no evil that cannot produce good. C. G. Jung (CW 12, ¶36) Jung made two journeys to Ravenna*: a first time by bicycle in April 1914, in…