The Life, Work and Legacy of Carl Jung
Psyche, you see, tends to ignore that gender question, curiously enough L.P. Gender words. J.H. Yes, there may be only a few hundred such words out of thousands. Besides that, there are thousands of things about you that have nothing to do with gender. If I put you into your gender, I have made a racist move. It’s like … Read more
The Battle for Deliverance from the Mother For Jung, the hero is a symbol of the developing ego’s libido. By libido, Jung means not simply desire or psychological energy but psychological purpose as well. For him, the hero myth expresses the ego’s desire to replace dependency upon the unconscious with self-direction—a purpose that necessitates an … Read more
Jung acknowledged his own debt to his patients most of them women. In Barbara Hannah’s biographical memoir of Jung she said, One of Jung’s most striking characteristics was the fact that he never asked anything of people that he had not first asked of himself, and he told me once, when he was nearly sixty, … Read more
The Animus, a Woman’s Inner Man The embodiment of the unconscious of a woman as a figure of the opposite sex, the animus, also has positive and negative features. The animus, however, does not express itself so often in women as an erotic fantasy or mood, but rather as “sacred” convictions. When these latter are … Read more