April 8th 2021

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Carl Jung: “Meetings with Jung” by E.A. Bennet

C.G. Jung by E.A. Bennet

He [Jung] listened daily to the B.B.C. and knew that England was the only hope, and that they would never give in. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 24.

During this visit to London [in 1935], Jung had occasion to look up some references, and he went to the Reading Room of the British Museum. He was asked if he had a reader’s ticket. ‘No’, he replied, ‘I’m afraid I haven’t. I did not know that was required’. ‘Who are you?’ he was asked. ‘What is your name?’ ‘I am a Swiss doctor on a visit to London. My name is Jung – Dr. Jung.’ ‘Not Freud, Jung, and Adler?’ exclaimed the assistant. ‘Oh no’, he replied. ‘Only Jung!’ ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 6

Synchronous events are widely accepted in Chinese philosophy and are the basis of astrology. ~Carl Jung, Conversations with C.G. Jung, Page 51.

He [Jung] said that until 1935 it had seemed possible, in Germany and Italy, that some good could come from Nazism. Germany was transformed; instead of roads crowded with people without work, all was changed and peaceful. Then he saw other things and knew it was evil. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 25.

At breakfast he [Jung] spoke of astrology (one of his daughters is interested in it), and of a German book in which he is criticised for giving support to horoscopes. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 91

This man also asked C.G. if he believed in astrology because he had mentioned it; but, said C.G., it is not necessary to ‘believe’ in such concepts – he simply observes that they are sometimes relevant. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 102

And now we are coming to the end of the Pisces era, as was foretold nearly two thousand years ago by the Arabian astrologer Albumasar. The pre-Christian time was Aries. ~Carl Jung, Meetings with Jung, Page 302

He [Jung] became so outspoken in his criticisms of Germany that Mrs. Jung was afraid he would get into trouble, with so much German influence in Zürich. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 25

Referring to the rumours of his so-called Nazi sympathies, C.G. told me that his name was on the blacklist in Germany because of his views, and that he would certainly have been shot at once had he fallen into Nazi hands. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 26

Then he woke and was glad, for he knew that Germany would be beaten by Russia. This, he said, was a collective dream, and very important. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 27

No, the Virgin was the archetypal figure of the soul of man, the anima, and it is only in the soul of man that God can be born, where else could it be? ~Carl Jung, Meetings with Jung, Page 32

He [Jung] dislikes crowds and dislikes majorities, so at Yale he asked for a small hall in which to lecture. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 32

He [Jung] went on to speak of obsessional people as always fearing death; they want to remain adolescent and never grow up. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 44

Freud was kind to people and gave them his interest, that was what cured and that is what always cures – the human contact. ~Carl Jung, Meetings with Jung, Page 48

He [Jung] spoke of unmindful coincidences, that is, coincidences which could not have been anticipated. He gave an example of a dream he had recently of Churchill, and next day he read that Churchill had just passed through Switzerland. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 49

He [Jung] alluded by way of illustration to the decay of radium, that after about 1400 years the granule of radium had gone. It diminishes at a certain rate; space, time and causation do not account for this. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 50

The shadow can represent the whole of the unconscious – that is both personal and archetypal contents – or just the personal material, which was in the background and not recognised, not wanted. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 55

He [Jung] said he had learned never to start an interview beyond a few pleasantries – ‘How are you?’ – but to wait for the patient, because the instincts, the archetypes, lie in between and we don’t know what may be there. ~E.A. Bennet, Meeting with Jung, Page 55

But the spiritual power of the Church has fallen, and Communism is the opposite: it has arisen as the glorification of the materia. ~Carl Jung, Meetings with Jung, Page 57

I asked C.G. about the Christmas tree; he said it was a great symbol because it was the life growing in winter, the winter solstice, and that is what Christ is, the light in the darkness. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 59

He [Jung] had on the table the little oil lamp he used when he wrote about the association tests, and always used here – a very soft light. He would not have electric light installed, or the telephone. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 60

He [Jung] values the things he has to do here, the necessary things, little jobs; they are not a waste of time. We get emptied by too much work and these trivial things restore us. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 61

It is better to live and be someone and not get absorbed in activity all the time. ~Carl Jung, Meetings with Jung, Page 61

He [Jung] said this work with the physicist on synchronicity was the last of such writing he would do; it required tremendous concentration and took too much out of him. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 62

He [Jung] told me his wife had started to learn Latin, and also some natural science, after her fifth child went to school. Now she can read all the mediaeval Latin texts. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 62

It was ridiculous for Freud to say there was only one kind of energy, we don’t know what energy is. ~Carl Jung, Meetings with Jung, Page 63

Speaking of intuitive people, he [Jung] said it was important for them to get down to some task and make it real, ‘Otherwise they are like someone looking at that mountain over there through a telescope, and the next thing is they feel they have been there. But they haven’t, they must do the work.’ ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 73

He [Jung] mentioned that in free association tests breathing was restricted when a complex was touched and that this could be related to TB. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 74

He [Jung] doesn’t believe in using a couch but looks on patients as healthy people interfered with by their neurosis. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 74

He [Jung] spoke of communists as people without ideals, with whom you could never make a treaty; the peace talks were all nonsense, to wear out the Americans. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 77

He [Jung] said it was always like this with his dreams; he would dream of what he would write – like the mediaeval house dream and the notion of the collective unconscious. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 83

It’s no help just to search for causes and then blame the parents. Why not have the parents as the patients? ~Carl Jung, Meetings with Jung, Page 88

At times C.G. has had to re-create a neurosis in order to get vitality into the treatment – for instance when a patient is just flat and deflated. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 89

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 Jung, Meetings with Jung, Page 99

He [Jung] added that he never has had good reviews; but, like Schopenhauer, ‘People read me, and people will read me. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 101

The average is a statistical truth, and this is a concept; but it implies that there must be exceptions, and there are exceptions to the general rule of space, time and causality. ~Carl Jung, Meetings with Jung, Page 101

Later we talked again, and C.G. said how interesting it would be if someone were to study the dreams people had under anesthetics; he mentioned one or two examples. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 157

Also he [Jung] spoke of his great interest on reading that a neuro-surgeon, concerned with epilepsy, had stimulated the corpora quadrigemina and the patient had had a vision of a mandala, a square containing a circle. This vision could be reproduced – and was reproduced – by the stimulation. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 157

He [Jung] said he had for a long time thought that the brain stem was important in our thinking life and how interested he was that the corpora quadrigemina, the four bodies, was the area, for it confirmed his idea of the importance of the square and the circle as symbols. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 157

In the evening after dinner, we somehow got onto the subject of numbers which, C.G. said, had a life of their own. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 158

C.G. spoke also of participation mystique – that everything is known. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 162

He [Jung] said that even at school he had always been suspected of being a fraud – as when the teacher refused to believe he had written his essay; there was so much in it the teacher had never heard of that he concluded C.G. had got someone else to write it for him. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 146

He [Jung] struggled with himself about telling her [Emma] but he did so; she was quite undisturbed, and in a way relieved for ever since her operation she had been preparing for death. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 147

He [Jung] mentioned the witch doctor at Bollingen, whose house on the hill we had seen from the boat yesterday. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 134

The witch doctor has a very ancient book which was given to him by a monk of Einsiedeln who liked him when he was a boy. It is a reprint of an older volume and contains the so-called sixth and seventh books of Moses. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page134

With it, in the same chamois leather bag, he [Jung] had a little jade Chinese wishing wheel (it looked eighteenth century and was celadon jade with a movable centre). ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 136

Then some left, and C.G. went out and returned with a selection of gramophone records; they were all of Negro spirituals. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 139

The painting of this ceiling was C.G.’s idea; his coat of arms, or the separate parts of it, fill a long panel at one end and at the other end is that of Mrs. Jung. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 182

I asked of his first impressions of the anima and he [Jung] said it came in his dream of the white dove when the little girl stood beside him; she was like his eldest daughter. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 189

The extraverted person cannot value anything from the inside, hence the superficiality of much academic psychology – psychological tests for example, or the physical explanations of mental experiences. ~Carl Jung, Meetings with Jung, Page 194

There is no understanding of the fact that the mind itself has its causality; something from the inner life exerts its influence – ideas just arrive in the mind, or symptoms appear. ~Carl Jung, Meetings with Jung, Page 195

Then when C.G. was in India, he was invited to Mysore State where this man was the guru to the ruler; he was treated very well, stayed in the ruler’s guest-house, and was taken for drives in an ancient but comfortable motor car. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 199

He [Jung] mentioned also the archetypes as the representation of the instincts, that is, the instincts can be expressed in many ways – there are hundreds of possibilities. But one form is selected because it corresponds to the instinct – it is an image of it. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 200.

But the delusion itself is something; one cannot deny its reality because it is unusual. ~Carl Jung, Meetings with Jung, Page 201

This is the puer aeternus and you need it, especially in old age for it keeps people healthy. ~Carl Jung, Meetings with Jung, Page 217

You can’t change people to fit a theory. ~Carl Jung, Meetings with Jung, Page 217

After dinner we sat on the verandah, C.G. behind the little table wearing, as usual, a blue apron, and on the table lay the stone he was carving of the family lineage on the male side. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 219

He [Jung] was particularly interested to see how they [Harvard] had translated the word ‘unconscious’ into Latin, and it was mens vacua, the unknown or unexplored mind. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 220

At the same time he [Jung] showed me a small tumbler of slightly tinted (red or pink) glass, and the rim at the top was sharp all round. He said that at the moment his wife’s mother died the upper part of the glass had broken off. ~E.A. Bennet, Meeting with Jung, Page 221

Janet never knew his patients; he was the opposite of Freud who could never see beyond his patients but saw them only through his own theory. ~Carl Jung, Meetings with Jung, Page 222

He [Jung] went on to speak of the natives in Africa – they had a natural psychology. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 236

Unless there is a personal religious experience – realizing from the inside what it means – nothing happens. ~Carl Jung, Meetings with Jung, Page 238

He [Jung] likes to be quiet in the evenings and let his mind unbend, uncoil. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 274.

His [Jung] father was Lutheran, but of the Basel Reformed Church. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 275

C.G. took me to see his carving of Attis at the end of the path near the boat house. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 278.

He [Jung] spoke of the story of Attis as one of the most beautiful in antiquity and classed it with that of Apollo and Demeter. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 278.

On the wall of the Tower he [Jung] had made a new carving of a woman kneeling; he said she was the mother of Attis. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 278

He [Jung] never finds it irksome to be alone. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 279

C.G. told me to read Dr. Zhivago, a novel by the Russian, Pasternak; it was a wonderful picture of the anima. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 281

There was quite a crowd there and Barker, the professor of English from Cambridge, said, ‘Now Jung, you must know the famous passage in Faust about the setting sun!’ And Jung did know it and recited it. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 284

‘But’ C.G. went on to tell us, ‘here was a living myth, for the mountain lit by the sun is said to be the wife of Vishnu; and the myth gives the story and the experience meaning. That is what myths are. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 284

Speaking of dreams he said we must always ask ‘Whose dream?’ ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 289

He [Jung] spoke of Aquarius and the significance of Khrushchev’s visit to America. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 295

The wedding cake is a mandala and the bride and bridegroom are the royal wedding couple, the King and Queen, for that evening, and they preside over the gathering. That is symbolism; it belongs to life. ~Carl Jung, Meetings with Jung, Page 297

“Omnis festinatio a parte diaboli est”,’ he quoted in Latin – ‘all haste comes from the devil’. It is an old alchemical saying. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 297

Typology is a description of specific manifestations of energy. ~Carl Jung, Meetings with Jung, Page 299

St. Paul’s teacher, Gamaliel, was a noted Cabbalist. ~Carl Jung, Meetings with Jung, Page 301

This was the spread of knowledge laterally as well as vertically (that is spiritually), and he [Jung] said he had mentioned this in Aion, and that Pisces – he pronounced it with a hard ‘c’, Piskes – was like this: the sign was a perpendicular and a horizontal fish, they went in opposite directions. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 302

The snake is endless time. [As depicted in images of Mithras] ~Carl Jung, Meetings with Jung, Page 303

So far as mythology goes the interesting thing is that the myths are repeated, that is a fact and a very important one. ~Carl Jung, Meetings with Jung, Page 304

We can have ideas about God; but whether they are ‘true’ or not, or whether they are ‘absolute’, cannot be answered. ~Carl Jung, Meetings with Jung, Page 305.

In his [Jung] father’s room in this house were many zoological specimens in glass vessels; C.G. had earlier a special interest in zoology. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 307

In his [Jung] mother’s room were cages, like bird cages, only they were houses, and they were for the ghosts (that is, the flitting ideas in the mind) to lodge in. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 307

C.G. spoke of Ernest Jones and some of the inaccuracies in his biography of Freud. He said Jones had always been simply a follower of Freud; he had not added any original ideas. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 296

When Jones was writing his book on Freud he never asked him (C.G.) anything about the early years when he and Freud were working together. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 296

I asked him [Jung] again about the carving of the face of Mercury on the stone at the side of the Tower. He said, ‘I got terribly stuck when I was working on synchronicity, in the part about statistics. Then I saw that face in the stone and put my papers away and got my tools and carved it. It was the impish Mercury. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 298

He [Jung] went on, ‘The alchemists knew this hindering thing and Mercury was often mentioned by them as the jester.’ ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 298

His] Jung’s] study of alchemy had been foreshadowed in his dreams, and his work had always developed in this way – out of his own experiences and dreams. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 84

We looked at some of the many stone carvings he has done; a small one was of a snake which had swallowed a perch and died. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 183

A beautiful stone in the classical style was a memorial to Mrs. Jung; this, he [Jung] said, was to be put up on the wall by the loggia. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 183

But the detective stories were a rest, chiefly because they had no bearing on his [Jung’s]professional work; and he could sleep after reading them because they were not true. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 187

I asked of his [Jung’s] first impressions of the anima and he said it came in his dream of the white dove when the little girl stood beside him; she was like his eldest daughter. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 189

It is important to be alone and unhurried sometimes, for then we are close to Nature (as he was on the night of this dream); then we can hear the voice of Nature speaking to us. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 203

He was particularly interested to see how they had translated the word ‘unconscious’ into Latin, and it was mens vacua, the unknown or unexplored mind. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 220

He [Jung] had been described as the explorer of the unconscious, and he thought this phrase particularly apt. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 220

He [Jung] always treated Freud with respect and called him Professor. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Pages 69-75.

He [Jung] mentioned that in free association tests breathing was restricted when a complex was touched and that this could be related to TB. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 74

Carl Jung: “Jung: His Life and Work” by Barbara Hannah

Jung: His Life and His Work by Barbara Hannah

You see, he [Carl Jung] never took anything from me to give to Toni [Wolff] but the more he gave her the more he seemed able to give me. ~Emma Jung, Jung: His Life and His Work by Barbara Hannah, Page 119.

He was, at all events, much struck and interested when Marie-Louise von Franz called his attention to this classical [Penelope] example as a parallel to active imagination. ~Carl Jung, Jung: His Life and His Work by Barbara Hannah, Page 85.

At all events, he [Jung] told me more than once that the first parallels he found to his own experience were in the Gnostic texts, that is, those reported in the Elenchos of Hippolytus. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work by Barbara Hannah, Page 84,

He [Jung] explained that the principle of Logos does not produce logical or intellectual thinking, for Logos is an experience, a revelation. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 105

He [Jung] gave up a burning wish to learn Chinese only when his studies in alchemy convinced him that he could never find the time to learn that most difficult of all languages. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Word, Page 173

By 1937 he [Jung] had somehow found time to read a great deal “about Indian philosophy and religious history,” and he “was deeply convinced of the value of Oriental wisdom.” ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Word, Page 173

I do not know if Jung cast an I Ching for this journey, as he had before going to Africa, but I certainly got the impression, when I saw him for the last time before he departed, that he was reckoning with the possibility that he might not return. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Word, Page 174

Jung was sixty-two at this time and already considerably detached from life, although at the same time he still gave himself to it completely. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Word, Page 174

“India affected me like a dream, for I was and remained in search of myself, of the truth peculiar to myself.” ~Carl Jung, Jung: His Life and His Word, Page 174

He [Jung] even called the journey to Indian an intermezzo in that study, and he took with him a large volume, the first of the Theatrum Chemicum, and read it from beginning to end before he returned. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Word, Page 174

Readers familiar with the Mysterium Coniunctionis will remember that Jung quoted Dorn at considerable length in the last chapter, “The Conjunction,” because Dorn had seen deeper and knew more of alchemy’s subjective side than any of the other alchemists. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Word, Page 174

“India gave me my first experience of an alien, highly differentiated culture.” ~Carl Jung, Jung: His Life and His Word, Page 174

“I could not digest India, and that is why I had to be so ill in Calcutta.” ~Carl Jung, Jung: His Life and His Word, Page 174

He [Jung] had been enormously struck in India by the skillful behavior of the Indian woman and by the fact that she really lived by her Eros principle, and thereby giving the men in her environment the opportunity to live their principle, supported on the feeling side by every woman they met, instead of—as is all too general in Europe—being douched with cold water from breakfast time on. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Word, Page 175

I realized painfully at the time, however, that it is unfortunately a fact that Western woman is going through a stage in which it is very difficult for her to live by her own principle, Eros. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Word, Page 176

Masculinity means knowing what one wants and doing what is necessary to achieve it. Once this lesson has been learned it is so obvious that it can never again be forgotten without tremendous psychic loss. ~Carl Jung, Jung: His Life and His Word, Page 176

“When she still wears her national Tracht (costume), European woman dresses very meaningfully, if never quite so successfully as her Indian sister. But now that she has opened the door to greater consciousness, she can never shut it again “without tremendous psychic loss.” ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Word, Page 176

One fact indeed rose from the very deepest levels of all: [He] grasped the life of Buddha as the reality of the Self which had broken through and laid claim to a personal life. [Jung had already realized much the same in regard to Christ.] ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Word, Page 176

Evil has become a determinant reality. It can no longer be dismissed from the world by a circumlocution. We must learn how to handle it, since it is here to stay. How we can live with it without terrible consequences cannot for the present be conceived. ~Carl Jung, Jung: His Life and His Word, Page 178

Even before Jung went to India he had been very much impressed by the way the Indian has integrated this problem of evil into his spiritual life. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Word, Page 178

Real life was always the most important thing of all to Jung, for he recognized it as the unique opportunity for the eternal Self to “enter three-dimensional existence.” ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Word, Page 179

Although the Indian sees the outline of the opposites far less clearly than we do, he undoubtedly lays far more emphasis on their union and for that reason has taken sexuality into his religion in a way completely unknown in the West. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Word, Page 179

The Indian realizes fully that sexuality is not just a personal matter between man and woman but is also the meaningful symbol for the reconciliation of all the opposites that remain tom apart so disastrously in the West. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Word, Page 179

Jung very often referred to the “Black Pagoda of Konarak,” to the obscene sculptures, and to the amazing remarks made to him by the pandit who was with him. These obscenities were there “as a means to achieve spiritualization.” ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Word, Page 179

It seems to me, however, that the main difference is that, in the West, we regard sexuality almost purely biologically, as a means of propagating the species and to further personal relationships between man and woman, whereas, in the East, it is (or was) regarded as belonging to the gods, a matter for them alone. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Word, Page 179

Jung always said that the more primitive a people were, the less important sexuality was to them; it is no problem to them because it is not repressed as with us. Food, Jung used to say, is far more problematic to the primitive because it represents much more uncertainty. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Word, Page 180

He [Jung] said that the dream was asking him: “What are you doing in India? Rather seek for yourself and your fellows the healing vessel, the servator mundi, which you urgently need. For your state is perilous: you are all in imminent danger of destroying all that centuries have built up.” ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Word, Page 180

But looking at the buildings which had sprung up like mushrooms all around his garden, he once said to me sadly: “When I look at all that, I feel I have outlived my age.” ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 28

As long as he was still of the required age, Jung was very enthusiastic about his military service. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 31

And, though he was as a rule not musical, if someone began to sing an old military song, he would join in with the enthusiasm of a boy. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 31

Jung often used to say that it is the fate of neutrals to be abused by both sides. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 37

The dream at the end of Jung’s school days taught him that he must leave his No. 2 personality behind and go out into the world exclusively in his No. 1 personality. ~Barbara Hannah; Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 306

He could never deny the existence of his No. 2 personality nor of the latter’s eternal world, but during the whole of his time at Basel University and during the nine years at Burghölzli he gave his full attention to No. 1 and its world: the outer. ~Barbara Hannah; Jung: Life and His Work, Page 306

Some dreams of his German patients, as early as 1918, had indeed drawn his attention to the situation in Germany, but he did not know with any certainty where trouble would first break out. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 151

Yet from the beginning of my time in Switzerland, he [Jung] frequently mentioned that he was especially uneasy about Germany, because Christianity had been forced by the sword upon the Germans and therefore their Christian veneer was thinner, their pagan roots much nearer the surface, than elsewhere. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 151

In the early thirties his [Jung] uneasiness was greatly increased by the dreams of his German patients, some of which were very ominous indeed. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 151

For some years before Hitler and his party seized power, Jung had kept an anxious eye on Germany, wondering what form a pagan revival was likely to take. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 151

My best thanks are due to the late Esther Harding for suggesting that I should write this book. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 151

I asked Jung before I set out whether he thought I could risk the drive, in view of the state of Germany then, and after careful consideration he replied: “Yes, risk it! Mind you, I don’t know what will happen, but it will be an interesting experience.” ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 151

Jung himself, with Emma, Toni, and a few others, went by train, and we all met at the Harnackhaus in Dahlem. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 151

He [Heinrich Zimmer] was a charming person, lively, interested in everything, particularly his own subject, but with curiously childlike hands which made Jung anxious about him from the beginning, with only too much reason as it turned out. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 152

Zimmer held the audience spellbound, a feat, since he was little known at that time and the large audience, which had collected from all over Germany and abroad, had come primarily to hear Jung and were disappointed that he was not lecturing that first Sunday evening. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 152

But Zimmer had not only an excellent knowledge and grasp of his subject but also a very creative mind and an extremely lively delivery; in short, he was one of the best lecturers I have ever heard. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 152

Curiously enough, although he [Zimmer] had an unrivaled knowledge of Sanskrit and of the old Indian texts, he had never been to India, a gap that was to have been filled in the autumn of 1939 when he planned to go there, probably with Peter Baynes, but was—alas, for always—prevented by the outbreak of war. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 152

I could make lttle or no contact with anyone at the seminar and even had difficulty in speaking to the people from Zürich whom I knew so well. One morning—it was about the middle of the week—Jung stopped me on the stairs and said: “Take care, you are getting dangerously out of yourself.” ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 152

He [Jung] had been persuaded by a German doctor that one of the high officials of the new government felt very uncertain of the course of events and was most anxious to consult him, so, though unwillingly, Jung had consented to go to see him. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 152

But [Jung] the moment he got into the room he realized he had been misled, that the official had also been told that Jung wanted to see him! Jung was angry at such a foolish, time-wasting deception, and left as soon as possible, but with added apprehension concerning the future of Germany in such hands. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 152

He [Jung] never spoke to any of the other leading Nazis, but he felt hopeless from the beginning about the colleagues of such a windbag as he had seen. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 152

He [Jung] spoke again at greater length of the panic that was gripping the German people and of his fear that nothing could stop a disaster. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 152

Jung had been afraid for some years that the thin Christian veneer in Germany was likely to crack. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 152

It may be remembered that much later, some years after the Second World War, when Jung was asked if he thought there would be an atomic war, he replied that he thought it depended on “how many people could stand the tension of the opposites in themselves.” ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 153

He [Jung] had already learned painfully in Africa how necessary it was for the individual to realize the outer collective tension fully, and he had known before—at least since his “confrontation with the unconscious” or even much earlier—that one must first learn to stand that tension in oneself. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 153

To anyone who, like myself, was with Jung in Berlin in July 1933, and who saw and heard him frequently during the next twenty-eight years, the libel that Jung was a Nazi is so absurd and so entirely without foundation that it goes against the grain to take it seriously enough to contradict it. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 154

Jung says, for example, of the “isms” (and from the start he always said Nazism and Bolshevism, as it was called then, were two names for the same thing. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 154

To return to Berlin in 1933: Jung’s seminar was taken down at the time in an unusually good stenogram and multigraphed for the use of the class in almost verbatim form. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 155

Jung had no sympathy whatever with Theosophy—for he always felt it speculated in the air, with no empirical foundation—so I do not know how Frau Fröbe originally persuaded him to lecture at Ascona. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 155

Jung lectured extemporaneously that year on the “Empirical Basis of the Individuation Process.” It is due to the merit of Toni Wolff that the lecture was preserved in the 1933 Eranos Jahrbuch, since she was able to contribute a written version. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 156

The cooking at the Monte Verità itself in those days was often a trial to Jung; being such a cordon bleu himself, he hated to see good food (it was all of the best quality) indifferently cooked. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 156

It was also in 1933 that Jung began to lecture again at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zürich, for the first time since 1913; this time the lectures continued, almost without interruption, until 1941. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 156

Thank God I’m Jung and not a Jungian. ~Carl Jung, Jung: A Biography (Hannah), Page 78.

To Jung’s great disgust, therefore, he had to give his lectures in the Auditorium Maximum, which holds 435 people and was always practically full. As mentioned before, Jung hated large groups except occasionally for single lectures, and he found his mammoth audience every week exceedingly tiring. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 156

At that time—in fact, during most of the thirty-two years I saw Jung—I used to write down afterward all I could remember of my analytical hours, seminars, and especially interesting conversations. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 158

As I had driven a great deal longer than Toni or either of the Jungs, I found myself their chauffeur in the dark or on the most difficult roads, and thus began to drive Jung about, an activity that was to increase (particularly after he gave up driving himself) right up to one month before his death, and to which I owe a great many of our most interesting conversations. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 164

In 1928, although he [Jung] was fascinated by The Secret of the Golden Flower, he did not realize that it was an alchemistic text. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 165

Marie-Louise von Franz had a strikingly alchemistic dream around Christmas, 1933, and by the spring she had plucked up her courage to ask Jung for an appointment in order to understand it. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and Work, Page 165

He [Jung] told her [Von Franz] that he had definitely made up his mind to study alchemy and that she could have the analysis she longed for but could not afford if she would pay him by looking up some of the Greek and Latin texts which he needed to understand the confused web of alchemy. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 165

He [Jung] told her [Von Franz] that his Latin, and particularly his Greek, were rusty from lack of use, and that to look through all the necessary Greek and Latin texts would take too much of his time. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 165

Jung told her [Von Franz] that when she was at Bollingen the summer before, he had already had a curious irrational feeling that she had something to do with alchemy. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 165

According to Jaffe, in the spring of the year 1959 Jung, after a time of lengthy ill-health, took up Liber Novus again, to complete the last remaining unfinished image. ~Sonu Shamdasani, The Red Book, Page 221

Some time before the fatal change of German government took place, Jung had accepted an invitation from the C. G. Jung Gesellschaft (the Psychological Club of Berlin) to give a seminar in July 1933, at the Harnackhaus in Dahlem, near Berlin. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 151

Now, of course, every intelligent doctor present knew that Jung was putting this through for the sake of the German Jewish doctors, who could thus either form a group of their own or simply join the International Society as individual members. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 158

A collective attitude naturally presupposes this same collective psyche in others. But that means a ruthless disregard not only of individual differences but also of differences of a more general kind within the collective psyche itself, as for example differences of race. ~Carl Jung, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 161

For my part, I do not belong to those savants who concern themselves exclusively with what is known already—an extremely useful activity, no doubt—but prefer to sniff around territories where nothing is yet known. ~Carl Jung, His and His Work, Page 162

Jung also took endless trouble later to help Jewish emigrants from Germany to settle in other countries. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 163

After the war when feeling ran so high and the worst thing that could be said of anyone was to accuse him of being a Nazi, the temptation proved too overpowering to those who wanted to discredit Jung. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 163

He had also mentioned that he thought Nietzsche’s idea of the Superman was the direct forerunner of the German idea that they were the Herrenmenschen (the Master- or Supermen), so it is possible that the vote of the class was swayed by the hope that we would get more understanding of and insight into the strange events that were taking place so near us, just over the German border. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 163

As he was dying, Zarathustra said to him: “Thy soul will be dead even sooner than thy body.” This, Jung said, was the “prophetic word,” for—as is well known—Nietzsche’s soul was dead before his body. ~Carl Jung, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 164

“His [Nietzsche] soul died in 1889, when his general paralysis began, but he lived on for eleven years more. His body lived, but his soul was dead. So the fate of that rope-dancer symbolizes Nietzsche himself.” ~Carl Jung, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 164

Right through this long seminar Jung made it abundantly clear that Nietzsche had become insane because of his identification with the Superman. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 164

From the beginning, although he allowed his lectures to be printed in the Eranos Jahrbuch as he had delivered them, Jung reserved the right to go on working on his papers later, to extend them and, in their new form, to reprint them as he wished. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 164

In 1933 Toni Wolff had found her large Chrysler terribly unwieldly in the narrow Tessin Lanes, so in 1934 she suggested we should take only one car (hers as a rule, but sometimes it was mine) and drive in turns. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 164

I will leave the full description of Jung and alchemy to Dr. von Franz, for she was his collaborator in alchemy from 1934 until his last alchemical book, the Mysterium Coniunctionis, of which she wrote the third volume. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 165

Jung said in his Foreword [CW 14]: “For Parts I and II I am responsible, while my co-worker, Dr. Marie-Louise von Franz, is responsible for Part III. We have brought out the book jointly, because each author has participated in the work of the other.” ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 165

Jung originally planned to publish all three volumes [CW 12,13,14] under both [with Von Franz] names. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 165

This is an anticipation indeed, for the foregoing happened just before Jung’s eightieth birthday, for which the first volume [CW 11] appeared, but I mention it here to show why I leave this theme almost entirely to Marie-Louise and to show how highly qualified she is to deal with it. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 166

It is true that Jung did talk to me quite a bit about it while he was doing his research on alchemy, but in a different connection, for I know little Latin and no Greek, so could be of no use whatever in this respect. It was of the “curious coincidence” between alchemy and analytical psychology that Jung spoke when he talked to me at the time. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 166

One wonders how he [Jung] could possibly have found the time in these particularly full years—it was not until the autumn of 1936 that he drastically reduced his practice and discontinued the English seminar for the whole winter. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 166

He [Jung] was, however, so fascinated that I do not think he could have continued his analytical work and his lecturing had he not pursued this overwhelming interest in alchemy. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 166

Quite at sea at first as to what these queer old texts were really driving at, he [Jung] made an enormous card index of recurring phrases, with cross-references, the sort of work that would have employed most people for at least a year working at it full-time; he made it in the sparse, spare time left after eight- or nine-hours’ analytical work each day. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 166

During these years I went to Bollingen regularly, at least once every holiday, in order to do a pencil drawing of Jung (facing page 232) … (I must mention that at that time Jung was anxious for me to continue my profession as an artist, although he changed his mind later. ),,,The drawing was done only at Bollingen and he was always occupied with his own work while I drew. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 166

When it was finished (for his sixtieth birthday, in July 1935) he said that although he liked it [Hannah’s drawing of him]— “because it had something that none of the other portraits have”—it would never be popular, and I must be prepared for a great deal of negative criticism. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 167

I sometimes found it [drawing of Jung] difficult to proceed with it and at such times Jung took over and drew for a short time on it himself! In 1935 Jung attained the age of sixty. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 167

From his seventieth birthday on—every five years—this became impossible, and he was forced to be in Küsnacht and to attend large celebrations. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 167

The Swiss are very keen on such anniversaries and make much more of them than do the Anglo-Saxons. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 167

Toni Wolff—assisted by Linda Fierz and Emil Medtner—brought out a Festschrift in quite a large volume for his [Jung] sixtieth birthday. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 167

Since Jung had little or no curiosity about mundane matters, he had no idea that anything of the kind was in preparation and was genuinely astonished when a copy, beautifully bound in leather [From Wolff, Fierz, Medtner], was laid on his pillow the evening before his birthday. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 167

Toni Wolff’s long contribution, with which the book opened, was in my opinion the best thing in it. Naturally, it was a great pleasure to Jung that she had made such an effort to do the creative work he was always so anxious for her to do, but which she was unfortunately usually too willing to neglect. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 167

Although indeed she [Toni] did so only in order to save [Jung] him work in analysis, I think it was a mistake and that she might have remained with us much longer if she had developed her creative potential more. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 167

There was a single appearance [Eranos] that year by Robert Eisler (author of Orpheus, the Fisher), who was a most entertaining person and who told us several stories that really amused Jung. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 167

Both Toni Wolff and I attended these [Eranos] lectures and worked afterward on the typescript, which was multigraphed at the time. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 168

I had just bought a new car which had to be driven five hundred miles in order to have its first service before leaving England, so Jung used it freely while he was in London. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 169

He [Jung] felt we had not enough evidence to have a definite opinion concerning reincarnation, but he said then, “If I have lived before, I am sure I was at one time an Englishman.” ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 169

I remember Toni Wolff once arranging an auction at the Psychological Club to raise money for some important project. All club members gave things of value to be auctioned, and Jung was persuaded to give an hour of his time. He then bid for it himself and did not give up until it was well over a hundred francs! ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 169

Though Jung had a good attitude to money, he never threw it about, so his bidding convinced the members of the club of what a high value he set on his own time. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 169

He [Jung] had, it is true, given an earlier formation in three lectures at the Zürich Psychological Club in the late autumn of 1935, but it was still difficult for him to speak on the subject, since neither he nor Marie-Louise von Franz had yet had the time to go through anything like all the texts they had collected, and he still complained that he often felt lost in the impenetrable labyrinth of the alchemical texts. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 169

I remember particularly vividly how interested we all were in the lecture of a French professor, H. C. Puech, on the “Concept of Redemption in Manicheism.” ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 170

During his summer holiday in 1936, Jung found a dead snake, with a dead fish sticking out of its mouth, a most curious parallel to his thoughts at the time. He was so much struck by this synchronistic event, that he carved the incident on the wall of the courtyard in Bollingen. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 170

Jung’s idea was that the serpent represented the pagan spirit, which is emerging so strongly in our times, and that it is trying to eat the Christian spirit, represented by the fish. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 170

Toward the end of August, Jung went to the United States again, this time accompanied by his wife. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 170

Emma Jung had not had much (or any) desire to travel while her children were young, for she was an exceptionally devoted mother and always very anxious concerning her children’s welfare. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 170

But as they got older, Jung increasingly encouraged her [Emma] to develop a life of her own, for he knew better than anyone else how valuable undivided interest is to small children, and yet how this very devotion becomes destructive as soon as the children are old enough to form their own lives. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 170

Therefore, much encouraged by her husband, Emma Jung learned both Latin and Greek, when her children were all in school, and she was thus very valuable to him in the scientific side of his work. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 170

Now he [Jung] encouraged her [Emma] to enlarge her horizon still more and to go with him to America. I remember that she was rather in two minds about it herself, but eventually decided to go. ~Barbara Hannah,

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