C.G. Jung’s Active Imagination by Leon Schlamm C.G. Jung’s development of the dissociative technique of active imagination, the visionary practice of ‘‘dreaming with open eyes,’’ arose out of his early experimentation with paranormal phenomena, especially mediumship, itself a dissociative technique of contacting the dead which traces its provenance to shamanism. His discovery of active imagination…
Carl Jung: Self as the primal source of all things LECTURE 7 Here’s another sentence that causes the Westerner categorical difficulties. For we are used to the idea that whatever a man says is human, all too human. “So, whoever said so and so is after all only a man, and he simply said so…
Jung, Carl Gustav, and Feminism by Vivianne Crowley Jung, Carl Gustav, and Feminism by Vivianne Crowley Cherry Hill Seminary, Columbia, SC, USA Carl Gustav Jung’s analytical psychology was important in valuing the feminine in counterbalance to what he saw as an excessive shift towards “masculine” logos, rationality, and science in Western society. But, infused with…
Lance Owens: History and the Transformation of Jung With publication of The Red Book: Liber Novus in 2009 and the subsequent publication of Jung’s Black Book journals in 2020, understanding of Jung in his historical context has entered a generational period of transformation. I review here both the past understanding of Jung, and the potential…