“Anyone who does creative work is familiar with this problem, and in many ways active imagination is similar to writing, painting, and so on; all creative work entails a give-and-take between inspiration (unconscious) and execution (conscious). (As I am writing… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share Image
“What, then, is active imagination? In practice it’s exactly what Jung did in his visions and conversations with inner figures such as Philemon, Ka, and Salome mentioned above: entering a fantasy and talking with one’s “self”—at least a part of… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
