Introducing Jung: A Graphic Guide

317 Pages·2004·43.33 MB·English

by  Maggie Hyde

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ISBN: 978-184831-856-4
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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Boyhood Soul-Searching
Zofingia Days
Psychiatry
The Discovery of the Unconscious
Freud
Burghölzli
The Case of Babette
Family Life
Meeting Freud
(1) The Issue of Freud’s Authority
(2) Theoretical Differences
(3) Philosophical Differences
A Strange Incident
The Case of Miss Frank Miller
The Nekyia or Night-Sea Journey
An Overpowering Vision
Liber Novus: The Red Book
Spirit of this Time (the Zeitgeist)
Spirit of the Depths
Mythopoeic Imagination
Mandala: the Path to the Centre
Instincts and Archetypes
Archetypes and Images
Voyage into the Unconscious
Some Basics of Jungian Analysis: (1) The Symbolic
(2) The Transcendent or Healing Function
(3) Active Imagination
The Centring Process – Individuation
Dreams and Visions
Building Stones…
…the Bollingen House
Jung’s Practice of Analytical Psychology
The Structure of the Psyche
Psychological Types: (1) Two Attitudes
(2) Four Functions
The Return of the Repressed
Eight Psychological Types
Four Archetypal Figures
Collective Shadow
Male and Female Soul-Images
The Anima
The Animus
Complementary Images
Mixed Types
Jung’s Women
A Stone in Space
“4.4.44”
The Uncanny
The Fox
Psychology of Religion
Symbolism of the Catholic Mass
Christ, an Archetype of the Self
The Faust Legend
The Fourth Term
The Age of the Fishes
The Birth of Christ in Pisces 1
The Spread of Christianity
Moving towards the Antichrist
Prophecies of the Antichrist
The Mirror-Image Opposite
Scientific Rationalism
The Psychology of Alchemy
The Alchemist’s Stone
The Spirit of Mercurius
Stages in the Individuation Process
The Chemical Marriage
The Rosarium Philosophorum – or – Philosophers’ Rose Garden: 1. The
Mercurial Fountain
2. King and Queen
3. The Naked Truth
4. Immersion in the Bath
5. The Coniunctio or Intercourse
6. Death and Putrefaction
7. Ascent of the Soul
8. Purification
9. The Return of the Soul
10. The New Birth or Rebis
Synchronicity
Is it “meaningful” or is it just coincidence?
Qualitative Time
Synchronicity and Post-Einsteinian Physics
Synchronicity and Quantum Mechanics
An Astrological Experiment
“Secret Mutual Connivance”
The Double Conception
Science and the New Age
The End?
Supplement: Jung and the Nazis
Little Dictionary
Further Reading
Index
Boyhood Soul-Searching
Carl Gustav Jung was a strange melancholic child who had no brothers or sisters
until he was nine, so he played his own imaginary games.
Am I the one sitting on the stone? Or am I the stone on which he is sitting?
This was his secret stone with a life of its own.
He was born 26 July 1875 in Kesswil, Switzerland, the only son of a Swiss
Reformed Church Evangelical minister.
The family were steeped in religion. Jung had eight uncles in the clergy, as well
as his maternal grandfather. His earliest playgrounds were churches and
graveyards. Men in black would bring a black box and talk of “Jesus”.
He even heard his father talk of a “Je-suit” (sounds like Je-sus), and that was
“something specially dangerous”.
This Jesus can’t be trusted. He “takes” people to himself and they’re put in a hole!
Jung says that his intellectual life began with a dream at the age of three. In his
dream, he descended into a hole in the ground.
It leads him into a large chamber, a red carpet and a golden throne on which a
strange being sits.
Huge like a tree trunk but fleshy…
Then I heard my mother…
“That’s the man-eater!”
And I awoke in terror.
Decades later, Jung came across a reference to the motif of cannibalism in the
symbolism of the Mass. And only then did the image of the “man-eater” make
sense to him. He realized that the “dark Lord Jesus, the Jesuit and the phallus
were identical”. They represented a dark creative force in nature, the
investigation of which he pursued throughout his life.