Carl Jung: Chance is an event, too, and if it didn’t exist causality would be axiomatic. Letters Volume II To Hans Bender Dear Colleague, 12 February 1958 Your prefatory note on synchronicity is perfectly adequate up to the point where you speak of the “synchronistic effect that was sought.” This effect was, if I…
Carl Jung: Freud could explain the neuroses-up to a point on the principle of repression To Ernesto A. C. Volkening Dear Colleague, 19 August 1950 Many thanks for your kind wishes and also for your offprint. Unfortunately I am not on an intimate footing with Spanish, so I am having a report made of your…
Carl Jung: The Redemption of God by Man Psychology and Alchemy “From this point of view, alchemy seems like a continuation of Christian mysticism carried on in the subterranean darkness of the unconscious…. But this unconscious continuation never reached the surface, where the conscious mind could have dealt with it. All that appeared in consciousness…
Are Psychological Types Inherited or Learned? Psychological Types “There is, finally, a third group, and here it is hard to say whether the motivation comes chiefly from within or without. This group is the most numerous and includes the less differentiated normal man” (Jung, 1971. Jung, C. G. (1971). Psychological types. In W. McGuire (Ed.)…