Aniela Jaffé

Aniela Jaffé was given permission to quote from Jung's highly personal 'Red Book', and she does so in her essay on Jung's creative phases. Shortly before her death, the author also updated and expanded her long-famous article addressing the National Socialism accusations levelled against Jung. Sir Laurens van der Post provides a sharp echo in his Epilogue, written especially for this edition.

From the Life and Work of C.G. Jung

jung offered the hypothesis that they [sleepwalking] represent attempts at character development, anticipating a process of differentiation.

"simply new character formations, or attempts of the future personality to break through [which], in consequence of special difficulties (unfavorable circumstances, psychopathic disposition of the nervous system, etc.) get bound up with peculiar distrurbances of conciousness."

he had some to the conclusion that beyond the world of the psyche with its casual manifestations and relations in time anf space (that is, beyond consciousness and the personal unconscious) there must lie a transpsychic reality (the collective unconscious ) where, as one of its main characteristics, a "relativation" of time and space occurs, and where, consequently, the law of casuality loses its absolute validity.

From the Life and Work of C.G. Jung quotes

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