Jan 31, 2024 | Essays
… 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...
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“All the libido that was tied up in family bonds must be withdrawn from the narrower circle into the larger one,…”[1] “It frequently happens that when a person with whom one was intimate dies, either one is oneself drawn into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...
