Category: Jung
Carl Jung: the books, the record, and what Deirdre Bair could and could not see.
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Jung and Alchemy: A Glossary of the Key Terms
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…
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How Carl Jung Actually Interpreted Dreams
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,…
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Memories, Dreams, Reflections: Inside Jung’s Autobiography
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…
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Was Carl Jung Religious? What He Actually Said and Wrote
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…
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The Women Around Jung: Emma, Toni Wolff, and Sabina Spielrein
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…
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Carl Jung’s Art: The Paintings, the Tower, and the Stone He Carved
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 —…
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Carl Jung and the Letter Behind AA’s Twelfth Step
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.…
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Carl Jung’s Philosophy: The Thinkers Behind the Psychology
In 1916, Carl Jung privately printed fifty copies of a short work of Gnostic theology and gave them to friends. He did not put his own name on it. The…
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Shadow Work Prompts, Traced Back to What Jung Actually Wrote
The hashtag #shadowwork has more than 2.3 billion views on TikTok. Most of it has nothing to do with anything Carl Jung wrote, and quite a lot of it is…
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Which Carl Jung Book Should You Read First?
Almost every list of “best Jung books for beginners” recommends the same title first — Man and His Symbols — without mentioning that Jung himself wrote only one of its…