“As a rule, people who have a certain maturity, who are philosophically inclined, more or less successful in the world and not too neurotic share my views.” - C.G. JungIn my journey to read and understand everything from Jung, there are still some concepts that I have a hard time to wrap my head around. I am feeling that has to do with inconsistenc…

“The idea in the dream is that something has happened, a new worm has suddenly appeared, the worm which seemed to be a terrific danger; yet we saw that it also has a very positive meaning, the beginning of higher consciousness. That is why so many people are afraid of higher consciousness. For it bears a greater responsibility and danger.” - C.G. J…

PLEASE NOTE: This event is a purely intellectual investigation into Jung’s thoughts and opinions about psychological therapy and therapists. The event is not an instruction for neither diagnosis nor treatment. If you have the feeling to be personally affected in your psychological health, please consider contacting a certified professional. No piec…

“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. JungWhat do you get when you combine romance and spectacle? On…

“The smaller the personality, the dimmer and more unconscious it becomes, until finally it merges indistinguishable with the surrounding society, thus surrendering its own wholeness and dissolving into the wholeness of the group. In the place of the inner voice there is the voice of the group with its conventions, and vocation is replaced by collec…

“Everything unknown and empty is filled with psychological projection: it is as if the investigator’s own psychic background were mirrored in the darkness. What he sees in matter, or thinks he can see, is chiefly the data of his own unconscious which he is projecting into it.” C.G. JungJung and his ideas were already hard to understand in his time …

“Once the unconscious gets into active opposition to consciousness, it simply refused to be suppressed.” C.G. JungWhile failing at the box-office when it was released, David Fincher’s “Fight Club”, based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk, became a hit and cultural phenomenon on home video. Viewed through a Jungian lens, there is…

“There, in the East, is the metaphysical philosophy, and that is what we call psychology” C.G. JungWhile the march of modernity made cultures seem more and more homogenised, was Jung in his time still able to see and perceive cultures in their more unique expression. Deeply concerned with the decay of European civilisation during both world wars, h…

“Freud’s only interest is where things come from, never where they are going.” C.G. Jung“Freud's original idea of the unconscious was that it was a sort of receptacle or storehouse for repressed material, infantile wishes, and the like. But the unconscious is far more than that: it is the basis and precondition of all consciousness.” C.G. JungNothi…

“Statements by men on the subject of female psychology suffer principally form the fact that the projection of unconscious femininity is always strongest where critical judgment is most needed, that is, where a man is involved emotionally” C.G. JungHere I want to try something new and move away from only using material directly from Jung to talk ab…

“At first, the Self is always something simple, something little, or cheap. It turns out, however, that it’s the king or even the savior. It is the crown, the phoenix, the saint, the savior, even the deity. It is the center toward which everything is oriented” C.G. JungLife moves in circles, but what is in the center? Jung saw a fixed point in the …

“The shadow is on the one side regrettable and reprehensible weakness, on the other side healthy instinctivity and the prerequisite for higher consciousness.” C.G. JungThere is a hidden side to everything, but sometimes what is hidden from our sight is the most obvious to other people. While the shadow is always right next to us we tend to find it …

“When somebody has an archetypal experience, he gets one hell of an inflation and is inebriated by power. That's also the reason why Nietzsche was a megalomanic.” C.G. JungWhile we think to be always the master of our thoughts and actions, there are other forces lingering in the background, gripping people and pushing them along. Being driven does …

“It is the goal of individuation to reach the sense of the continuation of one’s life through the ages. It gives one a feeling of eternity on this earth.” C.G. JungJoin to find out what’s happening in the psyche as it grows, even though the body decay. How much free will is possible when the world within, the world without, the personal and collect…

“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 al…

“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 wh…

“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 sub…

“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…

“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,…

“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 drov…

“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. JungJung as a therapist often experienced the influences that f…

“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.JungHow 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, thinki…

“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 sh…

“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 ag…

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 …

“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. JungCarl Gustav Jung was a trained psychologist and practiced his whole life. His studies and exp…

“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. JungThere are patterns deep inside the human psyche that are older than humans. They were experienced and codified by past cultures as myt…

„All life is a loss of balance and a struggling back into balance“ - C.G.JungFor 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 descen…