Dec 31, 2023 | Essays
“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...
Nov 30, 2023 | Essays
“All the libido that was tied up in family bonds must be withdrawn from the narrower circle into the larger one,…”[1] “It frequently happens that when a person with whom one was intimate dies, either one is oneself drawn into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...
Nov 8, 2023 | Essays
Oct 31, 2023 | Essays
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...
Sep 29, 2023 | Essays
“… the dawning aeon of Pisces… is prefigured in the fish symbol: )-(, showing two fishes, joined by a commissure, moving in opposite directions…. This applies to the zodion of the Fishes. In the astronomical constellation itself, the fish that corresponds...
Aug 30, 2023 | Essays
Restoring Values “Because the contemporary scientific attitude is exclusively concretistic and empirical, it has no appreciation of the value of ideas, for facts rank higher than knowledge of the primordial forms in which the human mind conceives them.”[1]...
