The Question of Medical Intervention Symbolic Life The medical journal Psyche published answers to a questionnaire sent to twenty-eight doctors concerning a report by Dr. Medard Boss, delivered at the 66th Congress of South-west German Psychiatrists and Neurologists in Badenweiler, in which he presented the case of a transvestite “under its existential-analytical aspect.” The treatment ended… 

Carl Jung The Functions of the Unconscious Zarathustra Seminars Our new method treats the dream as a spontaneous product of the psyche about which there is no previous assumption except that it somehow makes sense. This is no more than every science assumes, namely that its object is worthy of investigation. No matter how low… 

Carl Jung “Paracelsus” Spirit in Man, Art, & Literature That remarkable man, Philippus Aureolus Bombast von Hohenheim, known as Theophrastus Paracelsus, was born in this house on November 10, 1493. His medieval mind and questing spirit would not take it amiss if, in respectful remembrance of the customs of his day, we first glance at… 

Alchemy seems like a continuation of Christian mysticism Psychology and Alchemy “From this point of view, alchemy seems like a continuation of Christian mysticism carried on in the subterranean darkness of the unconscious…. But this unconscious continuation never reached the surface, where the conscious mind could have dealt with it. All that appeared in consciousness…