Tag Archives: anima

The Feminine and the Masculine Revisited

Posted on March 9, 2020 by Symbol Reader

I have always believed that the concepts of anima and animus need to be updated for our times. According to Jung, the anima is the image of the woman in a man’s psyche, while the animus is the image of … Continue reading →

Posted in Male and Female, Uncategorized | Tagged analytical psychology, anima, animus, archetypes, C.G. Jung, depth psychology, female, feminine, initiation, male, masculine, opposites, psyche, symbols, the Self | 21 Comments

Reading The Red Book (15)

Posted on January 6, 2020 by Symbol Reader

“Your Hell is made up of all the things that you always ejected from your sanctuary with a curse and a kick of the foot.” Carl Jung, “The Red Book” The second chapter of Liber Secundus is entitled “The Castle … Continue reading →

Posted in The Red Book by C.G. Jung, Uncategorized | Tagged analytical psychology, anima, anima mundi, animus, archetypes, C.G. Jung, depth psychology, feminine, gender, Liber Novus, masculine, psyche, Soul, symbolism, symbols, The Red Book | 4 Comments

Reading The Red Book (12)

Posted on October 20, 2019 by Symbol Reader

I. “You may call us symbols for the same reason that you can also call your fellow men symbols, if you wish to. But we are just as real as your fellow men. You invalidate nothing and solve nothing by calling us symbols.” … Continue reading →

Posted in The Red Book by C.G. Jung, Uncategorized | Tagged analytical psychology, anima, archetypes, C.G. Jung, Dark goddess, depth psychology, gnosis, Gnostic gospels, Gnosticism, Gospel of the Egyptians, Kali, Liber Novus, Mary Magdalene, Nag Hammadi, Salome, shadow, symbolism, symbols, The Red Book, the Self, transformation, unconscious | 1 Comment

Reading The Red Book (11)

Posted on September 22, 2019 by Symbol Reader

“I am all that has been and is and shall be; and no mortal has ever lifted my veil.” (the words inscribed on the statue of Isis of Sais) The title of Chapter IX of The Red Book (Liber Primus) … Continue reading →

Posted in The Red Book by C.G. Jung, Uncategorized | Tagged analytical psychology, anima, archetypes, blindness, C.G. Jung, Carl Jung, dance, dance of the seven veils, Dark goddess, depth psychology, descent, earth mother, Elijah, Eros, goddess, Gustave Moreau, Inanna, Ishtar, logos, Moon, myth, mythology, opposites, Oscar Wilde, pleasure, prophet, Salome, serpent, snake, symbolism, symbols, The Red Book, thinking, Underworld, veil | 8 Comments

Reading The Red Book (3)

Posted on July 7, 2019 by Symbol Reader

In the chapter Soul and God Jung continues to dialogue with his soul. He regrets that it has taken him so long to find her. Looking back on his life’s events, he sees the soul behind all of them. He … Continue reading →

Posted in The Red Book by C.G. Jung | Tagged analytical psychology, anima, animus, archetypes, C.G. Jung, coincidentia oppositorum, constructivism, depth psychology, ego, gnosis, knowledge, psyche, Soul, symbolism, symbols, The Red Book, union of opposites | 3 Comments

Passionate Longing for Dialogue (1): Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Symbol Reader

I am starting a new series on my blog which will consist of conversations regarding books, films and potentially other soulful topics of interest. I am calling the series “Passionate Longing for Dialogue,” which is a quote from Martin Buber’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Soulful Dialogue | Tagged anima, archetypes, art, astrology, book, C.G. Jung, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki, depth psychology, Haruki Murakami, individuation, interpretation, literature, novel, review, symbolism, symbols | 9 Comments

The Erotic Watery Dreamland of Henri Rousseau

Posted on June 18, 2014 by Symbol Reader

“In 1910, the year of his death, Rousseau gave the world his last dream, his extraordinary painting Le Rȇve. In a moonlit jungle clearing, a naked woman lies on a brown velvet-covered couch. In attendance are she-lions, birds of paradise, … Continue reading →

Posted in Painting | Tagged anima, art, dream, Dreaming, goddess, Henri Rousseau, lotus, painting, symbolism, symbols | 24 Comments

Swann’s Dream

Posted on May 31, 2014 by Symbol Reader

“Sometimes, too, just as Eve was created from a rib of Adam, so a woman would come into existence while I was sleeping, conceived from some strain in the position of my limbs. Formed by the appetite that I was … Continue reading →

Posted in Quotations | Tagged anima, art, dream, Dreaming, Karl Briullov, literature, Marcel Proust | 14 Comments

Distant Music

Posted on October 31, 2013 by Symbol Reader

“He asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of. If he were a painter he would paint her in that attitude. Her blue felt hat would show off … Continue reading →

Quote | Posted on October 31, 2013 by Symbol Reader | Tagged "The Dead", anima, James Joyce | 6 Comments

The Eternal Charm of the Feminine

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Symbol Reader

Spirituality and sexuality are not your qualities, not things which ye possess and contain. But they possess and contain you; for they are powerful … manifestations of the gods, and are, therefore, things which reach beyond you, existing in themselves. … Continue reading →