Religion as the Counterbalance to Mass-Mindedness In order to free the fiction of the sovereign State – in other words, the whims of those who manipulate it – from every wholesome restriction, all sociopolitical movements tending in this direction invariably try to cut the ground from under the religions. For, in order to turn the…
~Suzanne Gieser, Dream Symbols of the Individuation Process In 1936 and 1937, Jung delivered consecutive seminars in Bailey Island, Maine (see figure 1), and in New York City. The seminars ran for a total of eleven days, six days on Bailey Island and five days in New York. Jung’s lecture series was titled “Dream Symbols…
The Concept of the Collective Unconscious Carl G. Jung (1875-1961) was a Swiss psychologist whose principles have been found to be applicable to nearly all academic disciplines from mythology to religion to quantum physics, and to nearly all aspects of modern life. In the following selection, Jung discusses his most well-known (and controversial) concept, the…
The Collective Unconscious and Its Archetypes From Carl Gustav Jung’s “The Structure of the Psyche”, 1927: Just as some kind of analytical technique is needed to understand a dream, so a knowledge of mythology is needed in order to grasp the meaning of a content deriving from the deeper levels of the psyche…. The collective…