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Post by Admin on Jul 7, 2021 11:40:47 GMT
carljungdepthpsychologysite.blog/2021/07/07/sonu-shamdasani-interviewed-by-ann-casement/Sonu Shamdasani interviewed by Ann Casement pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20433495/Abstract Sonu Shamdasani interviewed by Ann Casement about Jung's The Red Book: Liber Novus in the course of which they range over issues to do with what drew Shamdasani to Jung; how he came to be involved in editing, translating and publishing Liber Novus; why he is so passionate about it; where it stands in relation to Jung's other work; some of the central figures that appear in the book such as Philemon and Izdubar; what Liber Novus might offer training candidates and succeeding generations of Jungians; how it has changed Shamdasani's own impression of Jung and what he hopes this enormous project will achieve; why Jung did not publish it in his own lifetime and whether he was mistaken in not doing so; and what impact the publication of Liber Novus will have on Jung's reputation worldwide as well as within the Jungian community. Similar articles After liber novus. Shamdasani S. J Anal Psychol. 2012 Jun;57(3):364-77. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-5922.2012.01975.x. PMID: 22724599 The egg, the vessels and the words. From Izdubar to Answer to Job for an imaging thinking. Gaillard C. J Anal Psychol. 2012 Jun;57(3):299-334. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-5922.2012.01973.x. PMID: 22724597 How to read The Red Book and why. Stein M. J Anal Psychol. 2012 Jun;57(3):280-98. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-5922.2012.01972.x. PMID: 22724596 The interiorizing movement of logical life: reflections on Wolfgang Giegerich. Casement A. J Anal Psychol. 2011 Sep;56(4):532-49. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-5922.2010.01927.x. PMID: 21884097 Review. The analyst in action: an individual account of what Jungians do and why they do it. Colman W. Int J Psychoanal. 2010 Apr;91(2):287-303. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-8315.2009.00226.x. PMID: 20536854 Review. See all similar articles
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Post by Admin on Jul 7, 2021 21:04:19 GMT
Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end. ~Carl Jung (Book: Man and His Symbols amzn.to/3ArMT19)
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Post by Admin on Jul 18, 2021 7:01:26 GMT
The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. ~Carl Jung (Book: Memories, Dreams, Reflections amzn.to/3hIpGjU)
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Post by Admin on Jul 24, 2021 12:37:20 GMT
"Unfortunately, it is my fate that other people, especially those who are themselves possessed by demons, think me mad because I believe in these powers. But that is their affair; I know they exist. There are demons all right, as sure as there is a Buchenwald (WWII German concentration camp)." - Carl Jung Jung theorized that our own psyche, or at least a part of it, can produce negativity.
When this happens, we are often not aware that this part, call it the demonic, is us. And when we resist it, when we react to it, we create more fear inside of ourselves and it strengthens. It's like having another person inside, an entity, that we do not know is us. "...we discover that the ‘other’ in us is indeed 'another,' a real man, who actually thinks, does, feels, and desires all the things that are despicable and odious.. A whole man, however, knows that his bitterest foe, or indeed a host of enemies, does not equal that one worst adversary, the 'other self' who dwells in his bosom."
- Carl Jung
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Post by Admin on Jul 24, 2021 22:22:34 GMT
“The alchemist saw the union of opposites under the symbol of the tree, and it is therefore not surprising that the unconscious of present-day man, who no longer feels at home in his world and can base his existence neither on the past that is no more nor on the future that is yet to be, should hark back to the symbol of the cosmic tree rooted in this world and growing up to heaven - the tree that is also man. In the history of symbols this tree is described as the way of life itself, a growing into that which eternally is and does not change; which springs from the union of opposites and, by its eternal presence, also makes that union possible. It seems as if it were only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own “existence” and making a philosophy out of it, can find his way back to a world in which he is no longer a stranger.”
― Carl Jung
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Post by Admin on Aug 23, 2021 21:19:26 GMT
“If you comprehend the darkness, it seizes you. It comes over you like the night with black shadows and countless shimmering stars. Silence and peace come over you if you begin to comprehend the darkness. Only he who does not comprehend the darkness fears the night.
Through comprehending the dark, the nocturnal, the abyssal in you, you become utterly simple. And you prepare to sleep through the millennia like everyone else, and you sleep down into the womb of the millennia, and your walls resound with ancient temple chants. Since the simple is what always was. Peace and blue night spread over you while you dream in the grave of the millennia."
― Carl Jung
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Post by Admin on Sept 12, 2021 7:15:15 GMT
The Genius Carl Jung, the Collective Unconscious, and Science graham-pemberton.medium.com/the-genius-carl-jung-the-collective-unconscious-and-science-f768d0e89c0eThe purpose of this article is to make some brief observations about a recent article by James Cussen, entitled ‘Jung’s Collective Unconscious Explained’, with the subtitle ‘The strange story of the depths of the unconscious’. The theme of the first part of his article is that Jung is something of an unmentionable, taboo figure in scientific and academic circles, because of his interest in supposedly mystical and occult topics. “Any line of investigation gravitating too close to the religious or the occult is met with immediate suspicion”. There is a “primal fear that the ocean of irrationality could still swallow the tiny island of reason called science”. For some he is therefore “a captain of quackery”, his work is “overlooked or dismissed out of hand”. “Academics warn their colleagues and students against uttering his name in an academic context even today”. “His very name is liable to get one ostracised”. My response is that this is a problem for science and academia, not a reason to reject Jung, who should be congratulated for his willingness to investigate areas outside the normal scope of science, which will always remain very limited if it confines itself to topics only accessible to ‘reason’. As Cussen says: “Science is still in its rebellious adolescence”. We can only hope that one day it will grow up, and become a mature and wise adult. He then goes on to say that, despite all this hostility, he is sympathetic to some of Jung’s ideas, especially his belief in a collective unconscious. Again there is much scepticism about this in ‘scientific’ circles, because it sounds suspiciously metaphysical. Cussen believes that this is undeserved, that “in the case of the collective unconscious, this reputation is wide of the mark”. He believes that the concept of the collective unconscious is widely misunderstood. In his research he has indeed discovered some strange commentators who believe that it has something to do with a “paranormal hive mind” or panpsychism. Cussen therefore attempts to set us straight about what Jung’s collective unconscious really is: “This layer contains the accumulated historical, collective experiences of humanity. It is… the psychology of the instincts of humanity”. He then asks what the contents of this collective aspect of the mind are. His answer is that they “relate to the common experiences of humanity. They are the mental component of the instincts”. For Cussen therefore the collective unconscious is related purely to biology and instincts, the result of “four billion years of evolutionary refinement”, the mental components of the instincts “wired in alignment with these perennial aspects of being human”. “It is no more mystical than the freshly hatched turtle making a beeline for the sea”. It would seem therefore that he is attempting to rehabilitate Jung, to make him more acceptable to conventional science by removing any suspicion of metaphysics. Despite his subtitle, there is nothing at all strange or unscientific in his eyes about the depths of the unconscious. One wonders if Cussen has actually read Jung on this topic. Let’s be generous and say that most of what he says is true, for Jung did write about instincts in these terms. At best, however, this is only half the story. How is it possible to write about the contents of the collective unconscious without once mentioning the word archetypes? This word literally means ‘original types’, and is therefore considered to mean ‘blueprints’, thus organising causal factors, operating from a metaphysical dimension of the collective unconscious, shaping life at the material level. This was perhaps Jung’s most significant contribution to the understanding of the unconscious psyche. As Cussen says, “Carl Jung was a thinker who followed his own north star indifferent to the dangers of being labelled heretical”. Thank goodness for that. He does not have to be rehabilitated, in order to make him more acceptable to scientists incapable of freeing themselves from the prison of reason. He should rather be recognised for the genius that he was, and that ‘science’ is put back in the place where it rightly belongs.
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Post by Admin on Sept 20, 2021 17:03:48 GMT
“The meaning of “whole” or “wholeness” is to make holy or to heal. The descent into the depths will bring healing. It is the way to the total being, to the treasure which suffering mankind is forever seeking, which is hidden in the place guarded by terrible danger. This is the place of primordial unconsciousness and at the same time the place of healing and redemption, because it contains the jewel of wholeness. It is the cave where the dragon of chaos lives and it is also the indestructible city, the magic circle . . . the sacred precinct where all the split-off parts of the personality are united.”
― Carl Jung
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Post by Admin on Oct 16, 2021 17:54:57 GMT
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Post by Admin on Oct 28, 2021 13:02:29 GMT
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible. If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely. But loneliness is not necessarily inimical to companionship, for no one is more sensitive to companionship than the lonely man, and companionship thrives only when each individual remembers his individuality and does not identify himself with others! ~Carl Jung (Book: Memories, Dreams, Reflections amzn.to/3BnB9vF)I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. ~Carl Jung (Book: Memories, Dreams, Reflections amzn.to/3jzC1HK)
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Post by Admin on Nov 2, 2021 17:14:41 GMT
The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy in the name of Christ—all these are undoubtedly great virtues. What I do unto the least of my brethren, that I do unto Christ. But what if I should discover that the least among them all, the poorest of all the beggars, the most impudent of all the offenders, the very enemy himself—that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness—that I myself am the enemy who must be loved—what then? As a rule, the Christian's attitude is then reversed; there is no longer any question of love or long-suffering; we say to the brother within us "Raca," and condemn and rage against ourselves. We hide it from the world; we refuse to admit ever having met this least among the lowly in ourselves.
C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
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Post by Admin on Nov 3, 2021 13:55:15 GMT
“I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.”
― Carl Jung
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Post by Admin on Nov 11, 2021 18:56:56 GMT
The difference between most people and myself is that for me the "dividing walls" are transparent. That is my peculiarity. Others find these walls so opaque that they see nothing behind them and therefore think nothing is there. To some extent I perceive the processes going on in the background, and that gives me an inner certainty. People who see nothing have no certainties and can draw no conclusions — or do not trust them even if they do. I do not know what started me off perceiving the stream of life. Probably the unconscious itself. Or perhaps my early dreams. They determined my course from the beginning. Knowledge of processes in the background early shaped my relationship to the world. Basically, that relationship was the same in my childhood as it is to this day. As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know. Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible. The loneliness began with the experiences of my early dreams, and reached its climax at the time I was working on the unconscious. If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely. But loneliness is not necessarily inimical to companionship, for no one is more sensitive to companionship than the lonely man, and companionship thrives only when each individual remembers his individuality and does not identify himself with others. It is important to have a secret, a premonition of things unknown. It fills life with something impersonal, a ‘numinosum.’ A man who has never experienced that has missed something important. He must sense that he lives in a world which in some respects is mysterious; that things happen and can be experienced which remain inexplicable; that not everything which happens can be anticipated. The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. For me the world has from the beginning been infinite and ungraspable.
- C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Vintage Books, 1965), pp. 355-356.
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Post by Admin on Dec 7, 2021 20:17:29 GMT
“It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others, yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.”
C.G. Jung
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Post by Admin on Dec 8, 2021 19:43:34 GMT
The mandala is an archetypal image whose occurrence is attested throughout the ages. It signifies the wholeness of the Self. This circular image represents the wholeness of the psychic ground or, to put it in mythic terms, the divinity incarnate in man. I had to abandon the idea of the superordinate position of the ego. … I saw that everything, all paths I had been following, all steps I had taken, were leading back to a single point — namely, to the mid-point. It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the centre. It is the exponent of all paths. … I knew that in finding the mandala as an expression of the self I had attained what was for me the ultimate.
_Carl Jung
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