“… 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...
… 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...
“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...
“All the libido that was tied up in family bonds must be withdrawn from the narrower circle into the larger one,…”[1] “It frequently happens that when a person with whom one was intimate dies, either one is oneself drawn into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...
July 29,1931–October 23, 2023 This is an essay unlike any other among the dozens of essays on our Jungian Center website. It is a eulogy honoring the life of a woman who played a central role at our Center but always behind the scenes. It has three parts: a...
