Gary Valentine Lachman

“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…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

“Jung recognized that society advances only slowly, through the gradual integration of new insights gleaned through the often unrecorded work of individuals,…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

“One result of active imagination, according to some reports, is an increase in synchronistic and paranormal phenomena. 32 This was certainly true…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

“Again Jung wanted to make contact with “archaic man” and he asked the Pueblo chief why he thought the whites were mad.…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

“But Jung did speak out against Hitler some years before he left the society. In 1936 he condemned the Fuehrer as a…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

“Dulles knew of Jung through his wife, who had an interest in psychoanalysis and had trained as an analyst in Zürich before…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

“Western man, Jung saw, always wants to do something, to “get somewhere”; this kind of restlessness is characteristic of us all. A…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

“Jung’s remarks about how in North Africa he “felt cast back many centuries to an infinitely more naïve world of adolescents who…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

“Anyone who does creative work is familiar with this problem, and in many ways active imagination is similar to writing, painting, and…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

“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

“As he argued in The Undiscovered Self, Jung told the “average” reader that any possibility of avoiding disaster “must begin with an…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

“Jung had had enough, and in his reply he made clear his disgust with Freud’s infuriating practice of treating criticism of his…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

“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…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

“With practice one can follow the material as it develops and can actually speak with it, as Jung did, which means, of…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

“That life could be ugly wasn’t news, and Jung found that the neurotics who were supposed to be cured by making their…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

“Jung told the Society that apparitions (ghosts) and materializations were “unconscious projections” or, as he spoke of them to Freud, “exteriorisations.” “I…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

“What, then, is active imagination? In practice it’s exactly what Jung did in his visions and conversations with inner figures such as…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

“Jung famously said that about a third of his cases weren’t suffering from some clinically definable illness, but from a sense of…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

“the need to have a secret became a fundamental element in Jung’s philosophy. “Like the initiate of a secret society that has…

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“Increasingly, Jung came to see that while his father and his uncles, six of whom were pastors, spoke to him about dogma…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

“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

“Even more disturbing was a dream Jung says he had then, the earliest one he remembered. Standing before a dark hole, he…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

“In 1933 a German branch of the International Society was founded with Matthias Göring as president; needless to say it was gleichgeschaltet…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

“The self is who we truly are, but the persona or mask (the word comes from the Latin for an actor’s mask)…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

“The Seven Sermons, Jung tells us, is what Philemon would have written, but by this time, Jung had assimilated this personification of…

— Gary Valentine Lachman