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1. The Four Functions of Consciousness as a Compass

The Four Functions of Consciousness as a Compass Psychological Types In this way we can orient ourselves with respect to the immediate world as completely as when we locate a place geographically by latitude and longitude. The four functions are somewhat like the four points of the compass; they are just as arbitrary and just… 

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Carl Jung Dream Analysis Seminar Lecture IV 30 October 1929

Carl Jung Dream Analysis Seminar Lecture IV 30 October 1929 Dream Analysis Seminar LECTURE IV 30 October 1929 We will continue our dream. The two committees are at work now digging up material for the next seminar, so I will refrain from discussing the cross and the crescent symbolism because we shall hear about that… 

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1. Carl Jung: Hell has Levels

Carl Jung: Hell has Levels The Red Book Everything odious and disgusting is your own particular Hell. How can it be otherwise? Every other Hell was at least worth seeing or full of fun. But that is never Hell. Your Hell is made up of all the things that you always ejected from your sanctuary with a curse and… 

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Carl Jung: God’s Formation

Carl Jung: God’s Formation The Red Book The child, that is, the image of the God’s formation, not only bore my human craving, but also enclosed all the primordial and elemental powers that the sons of the sun possess as an inalienable inheritance. The God needs all this for his genesis. But when he has been created… 

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1. Dreams as another type of Reality

Dreams as another type of Reality Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche (Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 8) As in our waking state, real people and things enter our field of vision, so the dream-images enter like another kind of reality into the field of consciousness of the dream-ego. We do not feel as…