Carl Gustav Jung

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Comment by Luna Arjuna on Saturday

“How can we talk about women without conjuring their relation to semblants, that is to say, to these montages, these dispositives, these constructions that serve to veil what is lacking, what is not there, but also to cover the horror.”

Pascale Fari, Introduction to Jacques-Alain Miller, Of Women and Semblants, The Lacanian Review Volume 13 Lacancircle.com.au/book-shop/TLR13

Egon Schiele, "Nude Woman Reclining on her Stomach", (1917)

Comment by Luna Arjuna on Saturday

“The mirror stage is far from a mere phenomenon which occurs in the development of the child.
It illustrates the conflictual nature of the dual relationship.”

Jacques Lacan, Seminar IV, The Object Relation Ilaria's paintings

Comment by Luna Arjuna on August 13, 2025 at 6:04pm

It is a most painful procedure to tear off those veils, but each step forward in psychological development means just that, the tearing off of a new veil. We are like onions with many skins, and we have to peel ourselves again and again to get to the real core.

~ C. G. Jung
Art: Thomas Dodd

Comment by Eva Libre on July 30, 2025 at 10:39am

The celebrations of Carl Gustav Jung’s 150th birthday (happening all over the world this year) echo the lasting power of his ideas and perhaps the growing need for his psychology. Jung was one of the most fearless, original, and irreverent thinkers of the past two centuries. His psychology boldly challenges the dominant scientific and reductionist view of life by reintroducing the notions of soul and mystery into our understanding of the human experience. In a world increasingly shaped by materialism and hyper-technology, Jungian psychology stands as a small but steadfast island—a place of refuge for the curious, the contemplative, and for those called to deeper meaning.

– Luis Moris, PhD. Jungian analyst at ISAPZurich

Comment by Luna Arjuna on June 28, 2025 at 4:55pm

“The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.”

C. G. Jung

Art: "Maria"- Carl Strathmann

“Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.”

"The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it."

The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs.

(on being 36 yrs old)
Carl Gustav Jung, Symbols of Transformation (Collected Works 5)

"Younger people, who have not yet reached the middle of life (around the age of 35), can bear even the total loss of the anima without injury. The important thing at this stage is for a man to be a man. The growing youth must be able to free himself from the anima fascination of his mother." (p. 71)

"After the middle of life, however, permanent loss of the anima means a diminution of vitality, of flexibility, and of human kindness. The result, as a rule, is premature rigidity, crustiness, stereotypy, fanatical one-sidedness, obstinacy, pedantry, or else resignation, weariness, sloppiness, irresponsibility, and finally a childish ramollissement with a tendency to alcohol." (p. 71)

The distance from the heart to the head is sometimes 30 years, sometimes a whole lifetime :
"We say, “You know it in the head, but you don’t know it in the heart.” There is an extraordinary distance from the head to the heart, a distance of ten, twenty, thirty years, or a whole lifetime."

C.G. Jung, Seminars on Kundalini Yoga

Comment by Eva Libre on June 3, 2025 at 6:11pm

“I would rather be whole than good.”

C.G Jung
Art: William Blake

Comment by Nada Jung on April 22, 2025 at 12:37pm

Life isn’t handed to us like an opera libretto: It is an adventure into which we must throw ourselves. Failures cannot hold us back if we have fire in our hearts. We must allow ourselves to encounter life and God.

Pope Francis, Hope: The Autobiography

The rose he is holding is named "Pope John Paul II".

Comment by Eva Libre on January 25, 2025 at 12:59am

"The figure of the wise old man can appear so plastically, not only in dreams but also in visionary meditation (or what we call “active imagination”), that, as is sometimes apparently the case in India, it takes over the role of a guru. The wise old man appears in dreams in the guise of a magician, doctor, priest, teacher, professor, grandfather, or any other person possessing authority.

The archetype of spirit in the shape of a man, hobgoblin, or animal always appears in a situation where insight, understanding, good advice, determination, planning, etc., are needed but cannot be mustered on one’s own resources. The archetype compensates this state of spiritual deficiency by contents designed to fill the gap."
Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious Paragraph 388

Comment by Eva Libre on January 24, 2025 at 4:07pm

Comment by Carmen Elsa Irarragorri-Wyland on January 19, 2025 at 3:31am

So true, unless we awaken to that reality and change our course, which I believe it is happening, even as I write this!

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