The Platonic Idea is in this case no longer intellectual but a psychic, instinctual pattern. Letters Volume II To Elisabeth Herbrich Dear Dr. Herbrich, 30 May 1960 Your letter brings me the unexpected and painful news of the death of Prof. Betschart to whom I am bound by many fond memories. I first became acquainted…
Carl Jung Review of Stekel: Conditions of Nervous Anxiety and Their Treatment Symbolic Life The book contains a presentation of states of nervous anxiety, buttressed by an abundance of case material: in Part I, Anxiety Neuroses, in Part II, Anxiety Hysteria. The clinical boundaries for either group are flung far afield, taking in much more…
The numinous experience of the individuation process Carl Jung Depth Psychology Facebook Group Psychology and Religion The numinous experience of the individuation process is, on the archaic level, the prerogative of shamans and medicine men; later, of the physician, prophet, and priest; and finally at the civilized stage, of philosophy and religion. The shaman’s experience…
Christianity had to fight for its life against Gnosticism Psychology and Religion The fact that the symbolism connected with the mandala traces its near relatives back to pagan sources casts a peculiar light upon these apparently modern psychological occurrences. They seem to continue a Gnostic trend of thought without being supported by direct tradition. If…