The spirit of the times corresponds to personality NO. 1, and the spirit of the depths corresponds to personality NO. 2. Liber Novus thus presents a series of active imaginations together with Jung’s attempt to understand their significance. This work of understanding encompasses a number of interlinked threads: an attempt to understand himself and to…
“It is exactly as if a dialogue were taking place between two human beings . .. “ Once these fantasies had been produced and embodied, two approaches were possible: creative formulation and understanding. Each needed the other, and both were necessary to produce the transcendent function, which arose out of the union of conscious and…
Instinct wants to be transformed into spirit In his study entitled “The Incest Taboo and the Virgin Archetype,” John Layard makes clear that the word “virgin” was not synonymous with “chaste” in either its Greek or Hebrew origins. Referring to the Virgin Mary and to other mothers of divine heroes, he says, It would appear…
Death and life meet at the threshold of birth. — Marion Woodman Connecting to this archetypal image may result in dreams of a huge serpent, mysterious, coldblooded, inaccessible to human feeling. Seen as an appendage of the negative mother, it is the phallus stolen from the father and used to guard inviolate purity. Yet this…
The Goddess speaks through dreams and creative imagination We hear a great deal these days about women stepping into their own shoes, or finding their own voice. In other words, they are trying to live their own feminine potential and speak with their own feminine voice. If their voice is coming from their own musculature…