The Life, Work and Legacy of Carl Jung
FREUD AND JUNG: CONTRASTS E D I T O R I A L NOTE For about six years, from 1907 to 1912, Jung practiced and wrote and presumably thought as a psychoanalyst, in close association with Freud.1 The work that was to be his major statement, Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido, proved instead to be … Read more
Carl Jung on “Madness” – Anthology Socrates distinguished four types of divine madness: (1) inspired divination, such as by the prophetess at Delphi; (2) instances in which individuals, when ancient sins have given rise to troubles, have prophesied and incited to prayer and worship; (3) possession by the Muses, since the technically skilled untouched by … Read more
Marie-Louise von Franz: Archetypal Dimensions of the Psyche [The Self] When a person has inwardly struggled with his anima or with her animus for a sufficiently long time and has reached the point where he or she is no longer identified with it in an unconscious fashion, the unconscious once again takes on a new … Read more
Paul Bishop: Jung Looking at the Stars: Chaos, Cosmos and Archetype Taking as its starting-point an aphorism in The gay science, this paper examines Nietzsche’s distinction between the (chaotic) ‘total character of the world’ and the (cosmic) ‘astral order in which we live’. It relates this distinction, not only to Nietzsche’s earlier claim in The … Read more