More specifically concerning: jung
Adversaria (3)
30 June 2023, around 4.22.
‘Their ideas were beautiful and academic, like pictures in a gallery, but somewhat remote’ —Carl Jung (Memories, Dreams, Reflections, trans. Richard & Clara Winston, p. 68) Just as his mission in life, to solve the puzzle of existence, represented an act of love for human kind, his love for Adele was analogous. His love of […]
all gibberish
2 July 2023, around 4.56.
I felt a downright fear of mathematics class. The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn’t know what numbers really were. They were not flowers, not animals, not fossils; they were nothing that could be imagined, mere quantities that resulted from counting. To my confusion […]
haven’t a clew
5 July 2023, around 4.27.
Like anyone who is capable of some introspection, I had early taken it for granted that the split in my personality was my own purely personal affair and responsibility. —Carl Jung (Memories, Dreams, Reflections, trans. Richard and Clara Winston, p. 234) 1. Things that I liked about David Kishik’s Self Study: the form, the idiosyncratic […]
Adversaria (4)
31 July 2023, around 4.19.
‘At this point the dialogue with myself became uncomfortable, and I stopped thinking. I had reached a dead end’ —Carl Jung (Memories, Dreams, Reflections, trans. Richard and Clara Winston, p. 171) ‘…psycho-analysis brings out the worst in everyone.’ —Sigmund Freud (The History of the Psycho-Analytic Movement [in the Standard edition, vol. 14], p. 39) ‘The […]
Adversaria (5)
31 August 2023, around 4.33.
‘Take a story from a place and drop it into another place and it doesn’t necessarily make sense, at least not at first. Like people, stories don’t always travel well. Nothing belongs everywhere, and some things only belong somewhere. But some stories, when they travel, can spark strange things in unmeasured hearts’ —Paul Kingsnorth (Savage […]
Citation (76)
6 January 2024, around 4.43.
Jung on bombast and Hegel.
pseudaphoristica (23)
4 August 2024, around 11.21.
The economical hobby of using pathetic fallacy to achieve the alchemical transformation, not of base metals into gold, but of worth (or value) into meaning.
start your cognitions
25 August 2024, around 17.40.
The story of the sleepers is followed by some moral observations which appear to have no connection with it. But this apparent irrelevance is deceptive… —C.G. Jung (The Four Archetypes, trans. R.F.C. Hull, p. 70) Slept in this morning until nearly six, when the dog made her desire for breakfast known. Managed to step onto […]
mythos
2 September 2024, around 9.05.
Here the compensation certain did not fall out as the dreamer would wish, by handing him a solution on a plate; rather it confronted him with a problem to which I have already alluded, and one which life is always bringing us up against: namely, the uncertainty of all moral valuation, the bewildering interplay of […]
Adversaria (18)
30 September 2024, around 4.26.
‘The concentration and tension of psychic forces have something about them that always looks like magic: they develop an unexpected power of endurance which is often superior to the conscious effort of will.’ —C.G. Jung (Four Archetypes, trans. R.F.C. Hull, p. 97) ‘A chaise was like an apartment: wines and provisions in the north-facing room, […]
common trickeries
25 March 2025, around 14.58.
Looking out the window in the morning to see the rain and fog, although the fog may be smoke from people who still use wood stoves for heating, or it could be from the burn piles going now to clear the deadfall before fire season. Only a few trees are budding, but the moss is […]
Adversaria (25)
30 April 2025, around 4.31.
‘Her psychic membrane was so permeable that she picked up on clues that lay far beneath the surface of daily life’ —James Hollis (Living with Borrowed Dust: Reflections on Life, Love, and Other Grievances, 42%) ‘Dream work is work, and it is a very uncertain forensic endeavor’ —James Hollis (Living with Borrowed Dust: Reflections on […]
curiouser
17 June 2025, around 15.47.
Like alchemy and behaviorism in their time, AI projects an image of good health in spite of its difficulties. However, its feverish activity and strident claims, and the tendency of its practitioners to abandon theory and exploit current techniques, may well be signs of its crisis. —Hubert L. Dreyfus & Stuart E. Dreyfus (Mind Over […]
thereof
24 June 2025, around 8.58.
Still keeping up with the morning books; only about a hundred pages to go in Ancrene Wisse, and Sallust is still the most enjoyable part of the morning (some frantic ladies praying nervously today), while Descartes is cute but becoming a bit dull (though a partially abridged version of anyone’s optics would probably be dull). […]
a few liberties
29 June 2025, around 14.05.
Adversaria (27)
30 June 2025, around 4.32.
‘Of course one must not tax an archaic god with the requirements of modern ethics’ —C.G. Jung (Answer to Job, trans. R.F.C. Hull, p. 9) ‘Although the disruptive students turned out to be very useful pedagogically—and analytically—for their willingness to express what others might only think about fat people, I still wondered: Why did the […]
subjected thus
8 July 2025, around 4.41.
Here as later there is reason to suspect that no conclusions were ever drawn from Omniscience: Yahweh did not consult his total knowledge and was accordingly surprised by the result. One can observe the same phenomenon in human beings, wherever in fact people cannot deny themselves the pleasure of their emotions. It must be admitted […]
Adversaria (28)
31 July 2025, around 4.02.
‘Irritability, bad moods, and outbursts of affect are the classic symptoms of chronic virtuousness’ —C.G. Jung (Answer to Job, trans. R.F.C. Hull, p. 87) ‘I have known some angry people I have encountered many people’s anger, but I have rarely found angry people illuminating or inspiring. Too often their anger—a feeling, a reaction, an interpretation—is […]
asynchronous
20 September 2025, around 18.46.
Two of the my holds at the library had vanished from the holds shelf, although they were supposed to be there until Tuesday. I asked after them, and the library staff was very apologetic and checked the remaining hold shelves and the basement and the secret ‘back room’ for holds, but the small books – […]
motes and beams
11 February 2026, around 4.30.
When I was a child, I wanted to live in a pine forest. Or, to be more accurate, a pine plantation. […] The tight ranks of conifer trees, planted so close together that most of their branches die for lack of light, and which acidify the soil for miles around, are hated by ecologists, landscape […]