Tag Archives: psyche

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 | 17 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

From Lascaux Cave Paintings to Greta Thunberg

Posted on December 15, 2019 by Symbol Reader

It fascinates me when similar ideas come to me simultaneously from completely different directions. The first revelation was a must-read article in The Guardian on how the cave paintings of Lascaux remind us that “in our self-obsessed age, the anonymous, … Continue reading →

Posted in Psyche, Uncategorized | Tagged archetypes, earth, ego, Ferdinand Hodler, Freud, Greta Thunberg, humility, landscape, Lascaux, narcissism, nature, painting, psyche, subject, symbolism, symbols, unconscious, Yeats | 7 Comments

Reading The Red Book (10)

Posted on September 15, 2019 by Symbol Reader

“The good and the beautiful freeze to the ice of the absolute idea and the bad and hateful become mud puddles full of crazy life.” C.G. Jung, The Red Book (Liber Primus, chapter VIII) Chapter VIII of The Red Book (Liber Primus) … Continue reading →

Posted in The Red Book by C.G. Jung, Uncategorized | Tagged analytical psychology, archetypes, C.G. Jung, child, Christ, depth psychology, divine child, God, hell, Jungian psychology, mustard seed, opposites, psyche, seed, Soul, symbols, The Red Book, Underworld | 9 Comments

Reading The Red Book (7)

Posted on July 28, 2019 by Symbol Reader

I. “The spirit of the depths is pregnant with ice, fire, and death. You are right to fear the spirit of the depths, as he is full of horror.” II. “You thought you knew that abyss? Oh you clever people! … Continue reading →

Posted in The Red Book by C.G. Jung | Tagged alchemy, analytical psychology, archetypes, C.G. Jung, depth psychology, khepri, Liber Novus, madness, psyche, scarab, Soul, symbols, The Red Book, the red stone, the unconscious, the underworld | 1 Comment

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

Reflections on Narcissism: The Feminine and Masculine Experience of Sexual Love

Posted on April 5, 2019 by Symbol Reader

“I love myself…I love you. I love you…I love myself.” Rumi You have probably seen this image – the illustration to a short story by Kristen Roupenian’s entitled “Cat Person,” which was published in December 2017 in The New Yorker and … Continue reading →

Posted in Kristen Roupenian | Tagged archetypes, C.G. Jung, Cat Person, depth psychology, Echo, Else Voigtländer, extroversion, Freud, Greek mythology, introversion, Kristen Roupenian, lierature, Murray Stein, myth, mythology, narcissism, Narcissus, psyche, self-love, short stories, Soul, symbolism, symbols | 10 Comments

The Seeds of the Sixties

Posted on February 3, 2019 by Symbol Reader

“His disciples said to him, ‘When will the kingdom come?’ ‘It will not come by watching for it. It will not be said, ‘Look, here!’ or ‘Look, there!’ Rather, the Father’s kingdom is spread out upon the earth, and people … Continue reading →

Posted in The Sixties | Tagged archetypes, astrology, conjunction, depth psychology, Dionysus, Don Draper, Mad Men, myth, mythology, Pluto, Prometheus, psyche, Ram dass, Richard Tarnas, social change, suffrage, symbolism, symbols, the 60s, The Sixties, the unconscious, Tobias Churton, Uranus | 16 Comments

Jung on Alchemy (9): the Coniunctio – part 3 – the Red Stone

Posted on September 9, 2018 by Symbol Reader

“We must sleep with eyes open, we must dream with our hands, we must dream the active dreams of a river seeking its course, the dreams of the sun dreaming its worlds, we must dream out loud, we must sing … Continue reading →

Posted in Alchemy, Uncategorized | Tagged albedo, alchemy, analytical psychology, C.G. Jung, coniunctio, depth psychology, Faust, feeling, feminine, Four elements, Goethe, green lion, hermaphrodite, intuition, masculine, philosopher’s stone, psyche, red stone, Rosarium Philosophorum, rubedo, sensation, Soul, thinking, white stone | 5 Comments

Struggle for Love in a Dream

Posted on September 20, 2015 by Symbol Reader

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Poliphilo’s Strife of Love in a Dream or Poliphilo’s Struggle for Love in a Dream), more than just a book but rather a milestone in depth psychology, was published in Venice in 1499. It featured beautiful woodcut illustrations and … Continue reading →