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Mircea Eliade: Profane Duration and Sacred Time

Mircea Eliade: Profane Duration and Sacred Time For religious man time too, like space, is neither homogeneous nor continuous. On the one hand there are the intervals of a sacred time, the time of festivals (by far the greater part of which are periodical). On the other there is profane time, ordinary temporal duration, in… 

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Marie-Louise von Franz: The Problem of Evil in Fairy Tales

Marie-Louise von Franz: The Problem of Evil in Fairy Tales Most Fairy Tales hinge on the struggle between good and evil. As Max Lüthi said in his excellent work on the subject, fairy-tale style is characterized first and foremost by a simple, unshaded opposition between black and white, good and evil. Within the hero himself… 

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Sonu Shamdasani, From complex psychology to the Jungian School

Sonu Shamdasani, From complex psychology to the Jungian School From the 1940s onwards, a number of training societies and institutes bearing Jung’s name began to develop from the network of nonprofessional analytical psychology clubs in various countries. While he had a strong sense of the possibility of a discipline of complex psychology, he expressed skepticism… 

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Suzanne Gieser: Pauli’s Life Crisis

Suzanne Gieser: 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…