C.G.Jung Helpdesk

“This is the stuff that drives people crazy, because they can’t catch themselves anymore; they can no longer control themselves when they have that animal psychology. It means they are driven by instinct. They see a thing and leap for it. That is the condition of schizophrenia, for all those things appear also in cases of insanity; they are dynamite that can easily explode in the human mind.” - C.G. Jung

The 2000 movie is an interesting case study of a slow descent into madness, but what would Jung say about it?

“This is the stuff that drives people crazy, because they can’t catch themselves anymore; they can no longer control themselves when they have that animal psychology. It means they are driven by instinct. They see a thing and leap for it. That is the condition of schizophrenia, for all those things appear also in cases of insanity; they are dynamite that can easily explode in the human mind.” - C.G. Jung

The 2000 movie is an interesting case study of a slow descent into madness, but what would Jung say about it?

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“Ladies and gentleman, considering that your seat, this room, this lightening, our entire culture are nothing other than products of human fantasy, then you cannot overlook this. There is nothing man-made known to you that is not fantasy. Fantasy is the alpha and the omega of psychic life. Fantasy is the greatest danger of all. Do you believe that a landslide or an earthquake is as dangerous as human fantasy? Well, you haven’t the faintest idea! Fantasy is catastrophe.” - C.G. Jung

Jung saw Fantasy as a fundamental phenomenon of the psyche. As something that can guide us, but also distract us. How we engage or ignore fantasies determines our development and our journey.

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„Real is, what has an effect“ - C.G. Jung

Jung‘s approach to therapy followed a basic principle: To meet the patient where they are. Reality is something incredibly subjective that can shape and transform just as we do.

„Although we human beings have our own personal life, we are yet in large measure the representatives, the victims and promoters of a collective spirit whose years are counted in centuries. We can well think all our lives long that we are following our own noses, and may never discover that we are, for the most part, supernumeraries on the stage of the world theater.“ - C.G. Jung

There is something deep in the psyche of humans, something that shapes and forms cultures and ages. Jung investigated the unconscious his whole life to hit something that is the foundation of centuries and millennia of human progress. And it was all visible in the sky long before anyone could see the connection.

„This means not only bringing the conflict to consciousness; it also involves an experience of a special kind, namely, the recognition of an alien ‚other‘ in oneself, of the objective presence of another will.“ - C.G. Jung

Shadow, Anima, Animus, Mercurius. Jung talks often about the figures of the unconscious that one encounters in one‘s life. We are not alone in our home and even though they all look and are different, are the all and the same in the end?

“Even on the primitive level man feels an irresistible need actually to invent secrets: their possession safeguards him from dissolving in the featureless flow of unconscious community life and thus from deadly peril to his soul.” - C.G. Jung

As we dive deeper into the hidden corners of Jung’s ideas about the psyche, we encounter one concept that seem innocuous but hugely influential under the right circumstances: The secret. Join to shed some light on it.

“Pretty much everything that currently moves the subject's soul is expressed in the associations.” - C.G. Jung

Within associations Jung saw the elemental structure of consciousness and the reason for dreams and fantasies. With every call, something in the psyche answered, but was it the patient themselves or something else? Jung investigated that and created his academic career that brought him to the attention of one of the leading figures of psychology of the time: Sigmund Freud. Join to learn about this fundamental part of analytical psychology.

“The child lives in a pre-rational and above all in a pre-scientific world, the world of the men who existed before us.” C.G. Jung

In the broad public little is known about Jung and his contributions to developmental psychology, the emerging psychology of children. Jung studied families and their ties and saw a unique opportunity in children to gaze into the depth of our psychology and in the past of human beings. Join us to learn more.