THE AMBIVALENCE OF THE SOUL l am the first and the last. I am the honored one and the scorned one. I am the whore and the holy one. lam the wife and the virgin. I am the mother of the daughter. I am the members of my mother. I am the barren one and…
Paracelsus: Concerning the Life of Natural Things. NONE can deny that the air gives life to all corporeal and substantial things which are born and generated from the earth. But as to what and of what kind the life of each particular thing is, it should be known that the life of things is none…
From what has been said, it should be clear that the psyche consists essentially of images. I shall return to this question in the course of my exposition. We will put it aside for the time being and turn back to the original question of mind and body. From what has been said, it should…
When discussing the animus, the same prerequisites apply as for the anima. Animus When discussing the animus, the same prerequisites apply as for the anima. This is particularly true of its origins in syzygy, and so it is essential for the reader to have digested the comments on the syzygy motif in the revious section.…
Belief and the Basic Postulates of Analytical Psychology IT was universally believed in the Middle Ages as well as in the Græco-Roman world that the soul is a substance. Indeed, mankind as a whole has held this belief from its earliest beginnings, and it was left for the second half of the nineteenth century to…