Women with a negative mother complex often miss the first half of life Jung writes that women with a negative mother complex often miss the first half of life; they walk past it in a dream. Life to them is a constant source of annoyance and irritation. But if they can overcome this negative mother…
The woman places the thorn of her animus When the prince appears after a hundred years, the thorny hedge growing around the castle blossoms suddenly into beautiful roses. The rose, says one medieval author, belongs to the goddess Venus and means love, for “there is no love without thorns.” They also say “Ubi mel, ibi…
Accompanying this neurosis is often, a savior or Messiah complex This all leads to a form of neurosis which II. G. Baynes has described as the “provisional life”; that is, the strange attitude and feeling that the woman is not yet what is really wanted, and there is always the fantasy that sometime in the…
We must first return to simpler facts to the individual numbers Through the discovery of the unconscious it has now become possible to throw a clearer light on these hitherto vaguely surmised relationships. If, following Jung’s suggestion, we admit that the unconscious participates in the formation of our representations of natural numbers, then all statements…
Magic and music have stood under the rule of the Archetypal Feminine While the Eternal Feminine in Faust II still appears in personalized form as the Madonna, she works her effects in The Magic Flute as an invisible spiritual power, as music. But this music is the expression of divine love itself, which unites law…