The Psychologist as Biographer Homo sapiens is the biographical animal. Humans differ from other creatures not only in anticipating their group and individual future but in reviewing and recounting their personal past—and in being fascinated by the personal pasts of other humans. Even in cultures where formal biography has remained undeveloped, details of individual life…
Turning Toward Individuation: Carol Sawyer Baumann’s Interpretation of Jung, 1927-1932 To assess fully Sawyer Baumann’s inner response to Jung would be difficult, given the available documentation. However, understanding the context of her family of origin could help to both enrich our understanding of Sawyer’s move to Zürich and draw in new characters for examination. In…
A.E. Crawley, The Idea of Soul CHAPTER I PSYCHOLOGY AND PRIMITIVE CULTURE i. Nature of the Investigation. Few conceptions can show the universality and permanence, the creative power and morphological influence which have characterised throughout history the Idea of the Soul. To it we owe the conception of an order of spiritual beings, and of…
Marie-Louise von Franz, Projection and Re-Collection in Jungian Psychology Reflections of the Soul The Original Meanings of Reflection The “momentary flashes of consciousness” we recall when we look back on our childhood have usually grown together in adults into a more or less continuous field of egoconsciousness. But still earlier, before these momentary flashes were…