November 2012
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On twisting a content psychologically
“My way of working is to take something already in place and twisting it, turning it, give it your own turn. They say about Bach, “He left no form as he found it,” and what I want to do with Jung or with Freud is to leave no form as I found it. Therefore, people say I’m twisting Jung – I think that the spirit in Jung’s work gets another shape each time you pick it up,...
August 2012
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First English Language Translation (1928) of...
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“Two Essays on Analytical Psychology” 1928 Translation by Carl Gustav Jung
First English Language Translation of Jung’s Two Essays
August 28, 2012
This is the Baynes translation. In my opinion, Baynes, a medical doctor, analytical psychologist who trained under Jung, gives a translations that has quite a different feel from the Collected Works of Jung...
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Comments on Jung's Seminar about Zarathustra
A Psychological Look at Spirit (Part 2)
“Ye know only the sparks of the spirit: but ye do not see the anvil which it is, and the cruelty of its hammer” (Lecture VI, 9 June 1937).
As mentioned in Part 1, Nietzsche’s intuitive genesis presents a new picture of geist (spirit): the “sparks” produced when a hammer strikes an anvil representing the new (spirit) of his...
July 2012
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Comments on Jung's Seminar about Zarathustra
A Psychological Look at Spirit (Part 1)
“Ye know only the sparks of the spirit: but ye do not see the anvil which it is, and the cruelty of its hammer” (Lecture VI, 9 June 1937).
The passage can be thought of as an image that shows the effect of man upon nature: Nietzsche’s “sparks” represented as an analogy to the dynamic power of friction which can start a...
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Jung's "self" is different from what is generally...
The following quote from Jung is easily misunderstood:
“The possibilities of development discussed in the preceding chapters were, at bottom, alienations of the self, ways of divesting the self of its reality in favour of an external role or in favour of an imagined meaning. In the former case the self retires into the background and gives place to social recognition; in the latter, to the...
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What is Emotion?
“I take emotion as affect; it is the same as something affects you. Emotion is the thing that carries you away. You are thrown out of yourself; you are beside yourself as if an explosion had moved you out of yourself and put you beside yourself” (Jung, CW 17, para. 46).
Jung distinguishes between emotion, as an involuntary, temporary, and chiefly unconscious behavior, and...
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Comments on "Jung's Children's Dream Seminar" of...
Below I give my comments on two excerpts from Jung’s “Psychological Interpretation of Children’s Dreams.” Notes on Lectures given by Prof. Dr. C.G. Jung at the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Autumn and Winter, 1938-39.
“The dream is, as you know, a natural phenomenon. It arises from no conscious effort. It cannot be explained by a psychology which is...
March 2012
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About Dr. Winer
Live, write, consult, and practice medicine and psychotherapy on a limited basis in Boulder, Colorado. I am the president of the C.G. Jung Center of Boulder.
Professionally, I am:
a board-certified neurologist
psychoanalyst (Jungian analyst) trained in Switzerland
fellowship-trained psychopharmacologist
perform psychological and neuropsychological testing.
I act as:
a consultant in the...
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