Biography read closely: the lives Deirdre Bair wrote, what the record shows, and where it runs out.
Jung gets credit, in casual accounts, for inventing most of his own vocabulary. Look closely at where these words actually came from and a different picture appears: he was one of the great borrowers …
Jung spent the last two decades of his working life writing about alchemy — not as a historian curious about a dead pseudoscience, but because he had come to believe the old alchemists were …
Search this question and you will get answers ranging from a dozen to over two hundred, usually with no source attached beyond another page making the same unsourced claim. The one fact that sits …
Al Capone did not die the way his reputation suggests. No rival gang caught up with him, no gunfight ended it. He died in bed, in his own house, eight years after he had last held any real power, from …
If you came here looking for a list of dream symbols and what they mean, the useful thing to know first is that Jung rejected exactly that idea. He held, consistently, that no symbol has a fixed …
Carl Jung’s best-known book to general readers is one he tried, in two separate ways, to keep out of his own official record. He asked that it not be included in his Collected Works, on the grounds …
In March 1959, in his own house in Küsnacht, Carl Jung sat for a BBC interview with John Freeman and, asked whether he believed in God, answered: “Now… difficult to answer. I know. I don’t need to …
Three women shaped Carl Jung’s life and work in overlapping, complicated ways, and the historical record has treated them very differently. One got a standing Wednesday dinner and a place at his …
This page is, by necessity, a gallery with most of the pictures missing. Carl Jung’s most striking visual work — the mandalas and painted figures in The Red Book — remains under copyright until 2031. …
On 30 January 1961, four months before he died, Carl Jung wrote a letter containing two Latin words that Alcoholics Anonymous still quotes today: spiritus contra spiritum. Spirit against spirit.
