… I regard the attitude of the unconscious as compensatory to consciousness… Jung (1921)[1] Compensation… as the term implies, means balancing and comparing different data or points of view so as to produce an adjustment or a rectification. Jung (1945)[2] The...
… I am often classed among the Gnostics…. Jung (1952)[1] Some while ago… I was characterized as ‘unspiritual.’… another utterance from an authoritative theological source [accuses] me of agnosticism—the exact opposite of Gnosticism. Jung (1952)[2] As a philosopher and...
Experiencing the Mortificatio: Jung on Grief, Grieving and Mourning No new life can arise, say the alchemists, without the death of the old. They liken the art to the work of the sower, who buries the grain in the earth: it dies only to waken to new life. Jung...
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“… in the course of the centuries, man has repeatedly experienced that the life which is not lived here, the life which is lived as something provisional, is utterly unsatisfactory, that it leads to neurosis…. As long as it is a case of provisional life your...
A monk once asked the Master: “Has a dog a Buddha nature too?” Whereupon the Master replied, “Woof!” Jung (1939)[1] I was once the guest of a pretty stiff and solemn New England family of a rather terrifying respectability. It felt almost like home. (There are very...
