Jung’s most far-reaching discovery is the collective unconscious Jung’s most basic and far-reaching discovery is the collective unconscious or archetypal psyche. Through his rese… Read More

Edward F. Edinger: And often the coercion occurs under the guise of virtue, love, or altruism. In my experience, the basis of almost all psychological problems is an unsatisfactory relation… Read More

Happiness equals what we have, divided by what we expect. Carlyle has put it cleverly. He says that happiness is inversely proportionate to the quantity of our expectations, i.e., how much w… Read More

In 1902, he became engaged to Emma Rauschenbach, whom he married and with whom he had five children. Up till this point, Jung had kept a diary. In one of the last entries, dated May 1902, he… Read More

Marion Woodman: one of our tasks on this earth is to work with the opposites Whether we like it or not, one of our tasks on this earth is to work with the opposites through different levels… Read More

Marion Woodman: Death and life meet at the threshold of birth. And again Joseph turned himself about and saw her laughing, and said unto her: Mary, what aileth thee that I see thy face at on… Read More

Marion Woodman: What then do we mean by “virgin”? What then do we mean by “virgin”? It may help us to examine those ways in which we use the word which are not direct… Read More

Marion Woodman: Many people are being dragged toward wholeness in their daily lives, Many people are being dragged toward wholeness in their daily lives, but because they do not understand i… Read More

Marion Woodman: A free woman has a strong neck—an open connection between heart and head, a balance between reality and ideals. A free woman has a strong neck—an open connection… Read More

Marion Woodman: The door thuds, leaving them bitter or resigned. The undercurrent of despair in our society is epitomized in a German word that first appeared in English in 1963, and is now… Read More

Marion Woodman: The woman often dreams of a black goddess who becomes her bridge between spirit and body. Once the purging has taken place, the woman often dreams of a black goddess who beco… Read More

Marion Woodman Feminine anger cleanses; animus anger leaves me tense. As I understand the virgin archetype, it is that aspect of the feminine, in man or in woman, that has the courage t… Read More

Consciousness should defend its reason The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.9 Part 1) Consciousness should defend its reason and protect itself, an… Read More

Marion Woodman If we are blindly living out an archetype, we are not containing our own life. If we are blindly living out an archetype, we are not containing our own life. We are possessed… Read More

Tantric Yoga in the Dream of a Child. Children’s Dreams: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1940 (Philemon Foundation Series) I think there is a very elaborate parallel in Tantric Yo… Read More

Marion Woodman: From infancy, children have been programmed to perform. Standing alone today demands even more courage and strength than it did in former cultures. Rather than living from th… Read More

There are the winged demons, bats in the belfry Carl Jung Depth Psychology Facebook Group   Problem of the Puer Aeternus, The Speaking in spatial terms, if we are objective we have to a… Read More

Christiana Morgan: mythic visions chronicling her struggle Visions : Notes of the seminar given in 1930-1934 (2 Volume Set) (Bollingen) Christiana Morgan-When Carl Jung met Christiana he con… Read More

Carl Jung on Immortality Introduction to Jungian Psychology: Notes of the Seminar on Analytical Psychology Given in 1925 Our life is indeed the same as it ever was. At all events, in our sen… Read More

Marion Woodman The Pregnant Virgin Quotations Standing alone today demands even more courage and strength than it did in former cultures. From infancy, children have been programmed to perfo… Read More

C.G. told me to read Dr. Zhivago Meetings with Jung: Conversations Recorded During the Years, 1946-1961 Küsnacht, 20th March 1959 Arrived at the Hauptbahnhof at 2.20 p.m. and was met by… Read More

Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements.                   Memories, Dreams, Reflections Our souls as well as our bod… Read More

The real mystery does not behave mysteriously or secretively               Psychology and Alchemy (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.12) The real mys!ery do… Read More

Tantric Yoga, Astrology and the Final Transformation of Man. I think there is a very elaborate parallel in Tantric Yoga. This visualizing yoga knows seven mandalas, situated one above the ot… Read More

The Missionary in you. Jung, My Mother and I: The Analytical Diaries of Catharine Rush Cabot He [Jung] went back to say again that if you have the missionary in you which tells everyone what… Read More

Carl Jung: The question of whether man will accept the ugliest man in himself, or not? Jung, My Mother and I: The Analytical Diaries of Catharine Rush Cabot …Jung spoke about people w… Read More

The sin to be repented is unconsciousness. Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.9 Part 2) St. Paul’s concept of ayvoia (ignorantia) may… Read More

Carl Jung on the Symbolism of Snakes. Children’s Dreams: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1940 (Philemon Foundation Series) The same was true of the snakes. If such a snake from th… Read More

The Mouse is a Soul Animal. Children’s Dreams: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1940 (Philemon Foundation Series) But why is it the mouse, of all animals, that is the medium of the… Read More

I have raised Corn, Beans, Potatoes and Poppy Garden C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 To Eugene H. Henley My dear Henley, 20 April 1946 I should have written to you long ago to thank you… Read More

Carl Jung on Old People, Death, Soul. C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 To Margaret Erwin Schevill Dear Mrs. Schevill, 25 July 1946 Thank you very much for your kind birthday-letter which… Read More

This leads to a restoration or apocatastasis of the lives of her ancestors The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.9 Part 1) The psyche pre-existent t… Read More

We must get in touch with the man of the ages Meetings with Jung: Conversations Recorded During the Years 1946-1961 Küsnacht, 29th August 1956 Arrived in Zürich. 30th August 1956 A… Read More

Carl Jung Quotations  Jealousy always means that we see someone else doing what we should have done but for our incapacity or laziness; it is easier to criticize other people. ~Carl Jun… Read More

Urdarbrunnr The Well of Fate Urdarbrunnr: The Well of Fate fate fate “The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate. That… Read More

For those interested in Runes The Red Book: A Reader’s Edition (Philemon) For those interested in “Runes” I suggest you read Footnotes 157 and 232 in Dr. Jung’s &ldqu… Read More

If we do not fashion for ourselves a picture of the world If we do not fashion for ourselves a picture of the w0rld, we do not see ourselves either, who are the faithful reflections of that… Read More

Carl Jung: Symbolism of Fish. Children’s Dreams: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1940 (Philemon Foundation Series) The fish, the next transformational form of the mouse, represent… Read More

Jung, My Mother and I – Quotations Carl Jung Depth Psychology Facebook Group Jung, My Mother and I: The Analytical Diaries of Catharine Rush Cabot I really do think that you [Katy Cabo… Read More

Victor White first letter to Dr. Jung Dear Professor Jung, Although I have never had the honor to meet you (outside of my dreams), I am taking the very great liberty of sending you some of m… Read More

Biological and Psychological Transformation of Instinct. The Jung-White Letters To Father Victor White My dear Father White, 13 February 1946 My answer to your kind letter comes very late in… Read More

The empathetic type suffers a similar fate Psychological Types (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Vol. 6) (Bollingen Series XX) Faced with the bewildering profusion of animated objects, we… Read More

He must obey his own law   The Development of Personality CW 17 “The fact that a man who goes his own way ends in ruin means nothing…He must obey his own law, as if it were… Read More

The Seven Sermons to The Dead The Red Book: A Reader’s Edition (Philemon) The Seven Sermons to the Dead Septem Sermones ad Mortuos by Carl Gustav Jung, 1916 (Translation by Stephan A… Read More

The dream that preceded Jung’s concept of the collective unconscious Memories, Dreams, Reflections The dream that preceded Jung’s concept of the collective unconscious, with his… Read More

Feeling, Sensation, Intuition Thinking Carl Jung Depth Psychology Facebook Group   Analytical Psychology: Notes of the Seminar given in 1925 by C.G. Jung (Collected Works of C.g. Jung)… Read More

Meister Eckhart and Are we not Sons of God? Dr. Jung often mentions the great influence Meister Eckhart who lived between the 11th and 12th century had upon his work. Let’s observe on… Read More

Wheelwright’s book about the Navajo Creation Myth. Carl Jung Depth Psychology Facebook Group C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 To Margaret Erwin Schevill Dear Mrs. Schevill, 1 Septe… Read More

Art can no more be fashioned from concepts than from the Pythagorean theorem. C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 To Karl Srnetz Dear Colleague, 19 December 1942 It would be very nice indee… Read More

Nidhogg tearer of corpses is a monstrous serpent                 In Norse myth, Nidhogg (“tearer of corpses”) is a monstrous serpent that… Read More

A Secret Unrest Gnaws at the Roots of Our Being The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.9 Part 1)   “Our unconscious, on the other hand, hi… Read More