Carl Jung Foreward: An Archetypal Approach to Death Dreams and Ghosts Foreword The author of this book has already made a name for herself by her valuable contributions to the literature of analytical psychology. Here she tells of strange tales which incur the odium of superstition and are therefore exchanged only in secret. They were…
Ann Belford Ulanov on “Personal Madness” Madness belongs to all of us. It comes in many forms and many degrees, from the craziness at the bottom of our neurotic symptom to a derangement that engulfs our whole life. Madness is simpler than it looks: it is our effort to express unbearable pain. Pain of shame,…
Carl Jung Quotations The symptomatology of an illness is at the same time a natural attempt at healing. ~Carl Jung, CW 8, Para 312 An unconscious Eros always expresses itself as will to power. ~Carl Jung, CW 9i, Para 167 Love, in the sense of concupiscentia, is the dynamism that most infallibly brings the unconscious…
Paul of Tarsus is a giant figure. He was born about 10 A.D. in the capital of Cilicia, near the Mediterranean in southern Asia Minor. Tarsus was one of the large cities of the times, a great commercial center with a population of probably 500,000. After Alexander’s conquest, it became a largely Greek city with…
Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology Lecture 1 Introduction I have given much thought as to how I should give this course introducing you to the symbolism of alchemy, and have decided on a short interpretation of a good many texts, instead of one text as at other times. As we have…