marie louise von franz psychotherapy .pdf

#Marie louise von franz psychotherapy .pdf series

Whereas Paracelsus and his school treat imagination as a mental faculty, Jung and his school treat it as a mental pro- cess. Her lectures on the “alchemical active imagination” show one direction that Paracelsian ideas have taken in the last century.

#Marie louise von franz psychotherapy .pdf series

Jung (1875–1961), and Jung’s comments on it were later elaborated in a series of English- language lectures by his long-time collaborator Marie-Louise von Franz (1915–1998). His writing provided an important point of reference for the alchemical studies of C. In an early book on “the whole of the alchemical philosophy,” he made alchemy into an allegory of good living, showing that it had moral as well as medical applications.

1584) translated a great many Paracelsian texts into Latin he also wrote a large body of work broadly inspired by Paracelsus. However Jung was clearly inspired further by the I Ching when 1 Jung had contact with Chinese philosophy at an early stage in his life: 'I was already fairly familiar with the I Ching when I first met Wilhelm in the early nineteen twenties' (Jung 1950/1969, CW 11, ♩66). says of psychological premises on which Tao is based: 'the state in which the ego and non-ego are no longer opposed is called the pivot of Tao'' (Jung 1952/1969, CW 8, ♩23). Jung quotes Chuang-tzu to explain its meaning: 'Chuang-tzu. The concept of Tao pervades the philosophical thinking of China, which is both composed and derived from the I Ching. The hexagram's presentation of the opposites, and their potential union in forming a new symbol, enables confrontation and reconciliation, effects that are comparable to dream analysis in assisting the individuation process. Each hexagram (built from six yin and yang lines) is an opposite binding symbol with a transforming potential. Yin and Yang, evolved from the metaphors receptive/creative, are, within I Ching's sixty-four hexagrams, a rich and resourceful manifestation of the energy change dynamics found in nature and in human life. According to Jung, 'This phenomenon is a kind of development process in the personality itself' (1957/1969, CW 8, ♥50), 'a process not of dissolution but of construction, in which thesis and antithesis both play their part' (1921/1971, CW 6, ♨27). In our experience the practice of analytical psychology and I Ching consultations both support the individuation process, in which our sense of purpose is revealed through the realization and integration of unconscious compensation. Thus, we set ourselves the following project: to compare the approach, setting, content, and outcome of an I Ching reading session with an analytical psychology dream session. We hope to shape a common story that inspires future practice through a collaborative study of Jungian analytical psychology and the Chinese I Ching. Jung, 'Foreword to the I Ching' (1950/1969, CW 11, ♡018) We, a European analytical psychologist and a Chinese I Ching expert, respond to Jung's call to explore and discover the extensive resource that is the I Ching. Like a part of nature, it waits until it is discovered. In Man and His Symbols, von Franz described active imagination as follows: 'Active imagination is a certain way of meditating imaginatively, by which one may deliberately enter into contact with the unconscious and make a conscious connection with psychic phenomena.The I Ching does not offer itself with proofs and results it does not vaunt itself, nor is it easy to approach. She also wrote on subjects such as alchemy, discussed from the Jungian, psychological perspective, and active imagination, which could be described as conscious dreaming.

Von Franz also wrote over 20 volumes on Analytical psychology, most notably on fairy tales as they relate to Archetypal or Depth Psychology, most specifically by amplification of the themes and characters. In The Way of the Dream she claims to have interpreted over 65,000 dreams. In addition to her many books, Von Franz recorded a series of films in 1987 titled The Way of the Dream with her student Fraser Boa.

She cites the reference to the publication in an expanded essay Symbols of the Unus Mundus, published in her book Psyche and Matter. Von Franz, in 1968, was the first to publish that the mathematical structure of DNA is analogous to that of the I Ching. Two of her books, Number and Time and Psyche and Matter deal with this research. Due to his age, he turned the problem over to von Franz. He also believed that this concept of the unus mundus could be investigated through research on the archetypes of the natural numbers. Jung believed in the unity of the psychological and material worlds, i.e., they are one and the same, just different manifestations. Von Franz worked with Carl Jung, whom she met in 1933 and knew until his death in 1961. Marie-Louise von Franz was a Swiss Jungian psychologist and scholar.