Pauli’s Life Crisis Pauli and Jung first met in 1931, when Pauli sought help for acute depression. Pauli says in a much later letter to Jung that his neurosis had already been quite apparent in 1926, while he was living in Hamburg. His exclusive preoccupation with scientific interests had suppressed all other human qualities and … Read more
Marion Woodman: Assent to the Goddess But O alas, so long, so far Our bodies why do we forbear? They are ours, though not we; we are The intelligences, they the sphere. We owe them thanks because they thus, Did us to us at first convey, Yielded their forces, sense, to us, Nor are dross … Read more
Nora Mindell: The Task of Making the Meaning of Nature Conscious. Von Franz points out that Jung spoke of “the task of man to complete the meaning of nature by his efforts to become conscious.” In this context, Jung wrote: The importance of consciousness is so great that one cannot help but suspect the element … Read more
Lance S. Owens, History and the Transformation of Jung With publication of The Red Book: Liber Novus in 2009 and the subsequent publication of Jung’s Black Book journals in 2020, understanding of Jung in his historical context has entered a generational period of transformation. I review here both the past understanding of Jung, and the … Read more