The Life, Work and Legacy of Carl Jung
The Self and Autism by Michael Fordham Preface This volume is the culmination of my work on the self in childhood. Its contents are dominated throughout by the ideas of Jung, though it may seem to many that I have departed rather far from what he intended. The departures may be covered by the following … Read more
DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY AND SELF-KNOWLEDGE Dr. Jung’s Answers to Questions Asked by Dr. J olande Jacobi Is depth psychology a new way to self ~knowledge? Yes, depth psychology must be termed a new way, because in all the methods practiced up to now no account was taken of the existence of the unconscious. Thus a new … Read more
Jung’s present-day approach to the Gnosis was never content with anything short of a knowledge of the heart Contemplating the mysterious panorama of the Seven Sermons, one is reminded of a saying of the philosopher Bacon: “Animus ad amplitudinem Mysteriorurn pro modulo suo dilatetur; non Mysteria ad angustias animi constringantur.” (Let the mind, so far … Read more
Woman’s fear of the female Self, of the experience of the numinous archetypal Feminine, Woman’s fear of the female Self, of the experience of the numinous archetypal Feminine, becomes comprehensible when we get a glimpse – or even only a hint – of the profound otherness of female selfhood as contrasted to male selfhood. Precisely … Read more