Carl Jung’s response to a question about the relation between symbolic and rational-conceptual thinking C.G. Jung Letters Vol. 1 1906-1950 [Carl Jung’s response to a question about the relation between symbolic and rational-conceptual thinking and to what extent the loss of the former during the Middle Ages was responsible for the alienation of scientific thought…
Jung’s Ka: Why do you feel the eternity of your I? Indeed, why do you want the eternity of your I? Black Books Will you finally listen? Am I less than Philemon? Is white better than black? Philemon called me his shadow. I call him my shadow. I am solid, he is thinner than air.…
Bollingen: An Adventure in Collecting the Past – Quotations Bollingen: An Adventure in Collecting the Past by William McGuire Alexis Leger had no partiality for any system of psychology and, indeed, no patience with psychoanalysis, Jungian or otherwise. There has been scarcely a glimmer of interest in his poetry from critics of a Jungian leaning.…
Contact With Carl Jung by Michael Fordham Quotations Contact With Jung by Michael Fordham The proof is in the facts, was Jung’s contention; he does not have to believe because he knows; this knowledge is based on experience and empirical findings. ~Renee Brand, Contact with Jung, Page 232 Miss Miller then became a representation of…
The symbol is a Living Body The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious The symbol is a living body, corpus et anima; hence the “child” is such an apt formula for the symbol. The uniqueness of the psyche can never enter wholly into reality; it can only be realized approximately, though it still remains the absolute…