It is a modern, scientific expression for an inner experience that has been known to mankind from time immemorial, the experience in which strange and unknown things from our own inner world happen to us, in which influences from within can suddenly alter us, in which we have dreams and ideas which we feel as if we are not doing ourselves, but which appear in us strangely and overwhelmingly. ~Marie Louise Von Franz, Jung: A Biography by Gerhard Wehr. Naturally he repudiated any sort of dictatorship or tyranny he did not believe in forcible ‘improvements’ in a system as long as the individual had not changed himself. The individual, in this sense, is even more important than the system. His passionate commitment was to the droits de l’homme, the fundamental rights of man and the greatest possible freedom of the individual, which are guaranteed on one hand by the federal state, and on the other even more by the maturity, wisdom, and conscientiousness of the individual members of a community. ~Marie Louise von Franz, Jung by Gerhard Wehr, This also made possible a connection with his insights into the historical roots of European intellectual development. The alchemistic tradition enabled him to connect the experiences and insights he had acquired through his direct, personal ‘descent into the unconscious with an objectively existing parallel material and to represent it in this way. ~Marie-Louise Von Franz, On Active Imagination, Marie-Louis von Franz reports that Jung once told her symbolic enactment with the body is more efficient than ‘ordinary active imagination’ but he could not say why. ~Marie Louise von Franz, Interpretation of Fairy Tales. A possessed man - Hitler, for example – has all the animus traits he is carried away by every emotion, is full of unconsidered opinions, and expresses himself sloppily and didactically, often in an emotional uproar. Similarly, a man who is drowned in the unconscious behaves like the animus of a woman. ~Marie Louise Von Franz, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales, Pages 6-7 ![]() We constantly build our lives by our ego-decisions and it is only in old age when one looks back that one sees that the whole thing had a pattern. … The unconscious “believes” quite obviously in a life after death. It is in fact true, as Jung has emphasized, that the unconscious psyche pays very little attention to the abrupt end of bodily life and behaves as if the psychic life of the individual, that is, the individuation process, will simply continue. ![]() The analysis of older people provides a wealth of dream symbols that psychically prepare the dreams for impending death. It is as if we are more inclined to ask the unknown ‘What shall I do?,’ while the East prefers the question: ‘To what total order does my conduct belong? ~Marie Louise Von Franz, Number and Time, p. Carl Jung Depth Psychology Facebook Group
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