Jung’s Archetypes and Theory of the Collective Unconscious Introduction Mythology permeates almost every aspect of everyday life. Whether it is in the form of fairytales, religious ritual, literary epics, the list goes on. There are stories of the lionhearted hero, the vulnerable damsel, the mischievous trickster, the world-ending flood, and many more appear in the…
From India to the Planet Mars CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION In the month of December, 1894, I was invited by M. Aug. Lemaitre, Professor of the College of Geneva, to attend some seances of a non-professional medium, receiving no compensation for her services, and of whose extraordinary gifts and apparently supernormal faculties I had frequently heard.…
The Self and Autism by Michael Fordham Preface This volume is the culmination of my work on the self in childhood. Its contents are dominated throughout by the ideas of Jung, though it may seem to many that I have departed rather far from what he intended. The departures may be covered by the following…
C. G. Jung and Hermann Hesse A Record of Two Friendships The Last Meeting Hesse’s book The Journey to the East is the story of a celebration which the author offers to his own being, as well as to the characters he has created in his books and to the myths which have affected him.…