“Jung came to understand that in this regard, we are all fragmented, and that the work of individuation is to fuse our… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share Image
“the outcome, if successful, in both alchemy and individuation is a union of opposites—the coniunctionis or transcendent function—leading to alchemical gold, the… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share Image
It’s not enough to withdraw from society and seek your own salvation, your own individuation. The individuator must return to society (“collectivity”)… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share Image
“Jung made clear that far from simply rejecting society’s norms and “dropping out,” “individuators” had a responsibility to create new values and… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share Image
“Jung told his students that in grasping the meaning of the union of conscious and unconscious, “we become aware of the ancestral… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share Image
“What troubled Jung most was Freud’s tendency to reduce any expression of spirituality—in a cultural or philosophical sense—to something smaller. Freud sniffed out sex… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share
“Jung recognized that society advances only slowly, through the gradual integration of new insights gleaned through the often unrecorded work of individuals, whose attempts… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share
“One result of active imagination, according to some reports, is an increase in synchronistic and paranormal phenomena. 32 This was certainly true of Jung.… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share
“Again Jung wanted to make contact with “archaic man” and he asked the Pueblo chief why he thought the whites were mad. Ochwiay told… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share
“But Jung did speak out against Hitler some years before he left the society. In 1936 he condemned the Fuehrer as a “raving berserker”… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share
“Dulles knew of Jung through his wife, who had an interest in psychoanalysis and had trained as an analyst in Zürich before the war.… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share
“Western man, Jung saw, always wants to do something, to “get somewhere”; this kind of restlessness is characteristic of us all. A few years… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share
“Jung’s remarks about how in North Africa he “felt cast back many centuries to an infinitely more naïve world of adolescents who were preparing,… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share
“Anyone who does creative work is familiar with this problem, and in many ways active imagination is similar to writing, painting, and so on;… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share
“Jung came to understand that in this regard, we are all fragmented, and that the work of individuation is to fuse our disparate parts… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share
“As he argued in The Undiscovered Self, Jung told the “average” reader that any possibility of avoiding disaster “must begin with an individual.” “It… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share
“Jung had had enough, and in his reply he made clear his disgust with Freud’s infuriating practice of treating criticism of his ideas as… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share
“Gross was a habitué of the decadent bohemian café society of Munich’s Schwabing district—a kind of early-twentieth-century Haight-Ashbury—and embraced the radical social ideas prevalent… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share
“With practice one can follow the material as it develops and can actually speak with it, as Jung did, which means, of course, that… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share
“That life could be ugly wasn’t news, and Jung found that the neurotics who were supposed to be cured by making their neurosis clear… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share
