Jung and Others on Fear Part I: Definitions and Types of Fear

“The spirit of evil is fear, negation, the adversary who opposes life in its struggle for eternal duration and thwarts every great deed, …”  Jung (1952) “Fear, however, is an admission of inferiority; it shrinks back from chaos and longs for solid,...

Jung On There Are No Accidents: Making Meaning Out of Tragedy

“… in psychology there are no blind accidents, much as we are inclined to assume that these things are pure chance. You can hear this objection is often as you like from our critics, but for a really scientific mind there are only causal relationships and no...

Jung on Active Imagination: Features, Methods and Warnings

… active imagination… is a method (devised by myself) of introspection for observing the stream of interior images.” “… the method of ‘active imagination’ … I have been using for more than thirty years in the treatment of neurosis, as a means...

Jung on Imagination and the Imaginal Realm

“The imaginatio is to be understood here as the real and literal power to create images (Einbildskraft = imagination) – the classical usage of the word in contrast to phantasia, which means a mere “conceit,” “idea,” or “hunch” in the sense of insubstantial...

The Seduction of Death: Jung’s Thoughts on the End of Life

“All the libido that was tied up in family bonds must be withdrawn from the narrower circle into the larger one,…”[1] “It frequently happens that when a person with whom one was intimate dies, either one is oneself drawn into the death, so to speak, or...