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“Considered form the standpoint of realism, the symbol is of course not an external truth, but it is psychologically true, for it was and is the bridge to all that is best in humanity.” C.G. JungBridging the opposites, connecting them through a common ground, this is the beginning of a symbol. They can be for one’s moment, one’s life or even for all humankind. Join to learn more about the thing be...

“When someone is able to perform the art of touch on the archetypal, he can play on the souls of People like on the strings of a piano.” C.G. JungEverything that is created and endures through time is for Jung a manifestation of our collective unconscious. The layer of our psyche that connects all human beings, through space and time. The people who can access this layer and bring forth its fruits...

“Two people see the same object, but they never see it in such a way that the images they receive are absolutely identical” - C.G. JungFor Jung, everything we experience is filtered through our psyche. What we experience is all but objective and it can tell us so much about ourselves. This event will deal with this topic and what it means to be subjective as an subject. Find my work on Linktree: ...

“night after night our dreams practice philosophy on their own account” C.G.JungThere are few things in life as subjective as one’s dreams. Influenced by Freud’s use of dreams as an analytical tool in psychotherapy, Jung spent his life listening to and analyzing the dreams of his patients. While Freud saw in dreams as simple falsification of wishes, saw Jung the modest immediate feedback of the un...

“These zodiacal signs are symbols that have been projected onto the sky form times immemorial, and probably reflect the structures of the unconscious” C.G. JungJung was always interested in all products of human culture, the older, the better. And some of the oldest is astrology, the “oldest form of psychology”, as he says. But there is more to it, a factor of time for which the unconscious has a...

“One most not imagine for a moment that the alchemists always understood one another. They themselves complain about the obscurity of the texts, and occasionally betray their inability to understand even their own symbols and symbolic figures” C.G. JungObsession. There is no other way to describe Jung’s interest in the alchemical art. But what drove it? And what has willful fantasy to do with it?...

“It is not possible to live too long amid infantile surroundings, or in the bosom of the family, without endangering one’s psychic health. Life calls forth to independence, and anyone who does not head this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened with neurosis” C.G. Jung Jung as a therapist often experienced the influences that family has on the formation of a child, but those...

“Of the essence of things, of absolute being, we know nothing. But we experience various effects: from ‘outside’ by way of the senses, from ‘inside’ by way of fantasy” C.G.Jung How does the the fragile consciousness persist and orient in the endless chaos of the world? According to Jung, it does this utilizing the four functions of sensation, thinking, feeling and intuition to experience the world...

“Consciousness, no matter how extensive it may be, must always remain the smaller circle within the greater circle of the unconscious, an island surrounded by the sea; and, like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of living creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming” C.G. JungThe dynamics of our psyche shape our lives. We forget and repress things into t...

“It is only our ego-consciousness that has forever a new beginning and an early end. The unconscious psyche is not only immensely old, it is also capable of growing into an equally remote future. It’s mounds the human species and is just as much a part of it as the human body, which, though ephemeral in the individual, is collectively of immense age.” C.G. Jung Consciousness has changed during the...

Jap, this will be it, an event just about the many many books available by Jung. C.G. Jung wrote and published an impressive body of work through out his life. I can say that I read almost all of the works that are commercially available. During this event I want to provide you with a quick rundown on all the books with a short description. A very good event to find out where to start on specific...

“With the neurotic, the material produced is mainly of a personal origin. His thoughts and feelings resolve round his family and his social act, but in case of insanity the personal sphere is often completely swamped by collective representations” C.G. Jung Carl Gustav Jung was a trained psychologist and practiced his whole life. His studies and experiments provided some of the foundations what mo...

“The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure - be it a daemon, a human being, or a process - that constantly recurs in the course of history and appears wherever creative fantasy is freely expressed.” - C.G. Jung There are patterns deep inside the human psyche that are older than humans. They were experienced and codified by past cultures as mythology, stories and religion. These patterns of b...

„All life is a loss of balance and a struggling back into balance“ - C.G.Jung For Jung, a person‘s life, as well as the development of their consciousness, is best described with the movement of the sun during the day. Emerging barely in the beginning, moving upward to expand more and more until it reaches the middle point and it prepares its descent to disappear again. Join to learn more about Ju...