c/marie-louise-von-franz
Primary-source archive of Jungian analyst Marie-Louise von Franz (1915–1998): her dream films, interviews, and lectures on dreams, death, time, and alchemy.
…as he got But the danger is inflation. You see it a bit, the same thing in St. Paul is always bordering inflation because he saw Christ and he deduces a bit that he wouldn't say he is Christ, but you know, he has the great word now to tell. It's a…
…the same thing in St. Paul is always bordering inflation because he saw Christ and he deduces a bit that he wouldn't say he is Christ, but you know, he has the great word now to tell. It's a very different fate than Jung had. I mean, to come after…
…its opposite. A band of cowboys shoot pregnant women and children. An ex-husband and his friends stop a woman from swimming a river. Christ appears as a furry dog with golden eyes. A woman's inner man can make her life heaven or hell. In his negative…
…was a small, ginger-colored, furry dog with gold eyes. And the animal was smiling at me. And I knew that this little dog represented the Christ. I don't know how I knew that, but I knew it. now this is the idea of the inner Christ in the depth of…
…this little dog represented the Christ. I don't know how I knew that, but I knew it. now this is the idea of the inner Christ in the depth of the soul he's not out there in the sky as christian teaching wants to have it or in some metaphysical…
…womb of the goddess earth or the goddess of nature so the cave is the depth of the inner nature and the dream says Christ is not some model figure as you have been taught a spiritual something you have to follow it is something which you find when…
…other world to the dream world he's the guiding god in the unconscious and that's why in our dream it is very fitting that Christ is a dog because he's a guardian of souls he's what watches over her soul and guides her in the darkness of the unknown…
…decorated with gold and so on to stress that it is eternal shining immortal everlasting and so the woman realizes this golden dog is Christ so to speak the way how Christ appears within her he would be an image of what we call the self of the inner…
…on there is the black Shulamite who is transformed also later according to medieval tradition into a white woman she's redeemed by Christ into becoming a white woman by her bridegroom and this This motif has played a tremendous role also in the legend of…
…crucifixion in the medieval mystery play. They were rehearsing the play in a church in modern times, and two actresses were nailing the Christ figure to the cross. The cross was lying flat in the transept of the church in the middle, and you could hear…
…dangerous for that person. Then the scene changes, and it's the actual performance in the church. The actor who will play the Christ comes solemnly processing down the church, and to my amazement, it's a woman, and not only that, but it's a woman who…
…and the inner wife and here the dream runs that first there is a kind of mystery play which enacts the crucifixion of Christ but it's only acting it is a bit dangerous because the cross is high but actually it's only acting this illustrates exactly the…
…historical past and also it is a outer imitation there has always been the problem that the churches have taught us to imitate Christ in the wrong way namely to imitate his outer actions I would rather call that to ape Christ and this aping of Christ…
…sitting for 20 years like that in an asylum another when you begin to talk to him tells you confidently that he's really Jesus Christ but nobody seems to understand him and so on they have been swallowed by the dream world that's why when we speak of…
…him literally falls upon his back that means from now on what's back one carries a load and that means he has now just as Christ had to carry his cross he has now to carry like his cross the burden of having to become himself to become the unique…
…whom people have projected their star? Hitler was a malefic star so to speak to whom thousands of Germans followed and Christ was a beneficent star who million followed there are naturally false prophets and good leaders bad leaders and even that history…
…the pregnancy of his wife and he needed this dream of God to tell him that the supernatural divine birth of Christ had taken place In all religions the central teaching contains such paradoxes namely generally something which is right against human…
…in the realm of the psyche and Joseph also needed the angel a messenger from God to in a dream tell him that Christ was born in a supernatural way conceived by the Holy Ghost which is how most heroes mythological heroes and heroes in different religions…
…Grail castle. In our Christian church, the Catholics carry and accompany the holy tabernacle containing the host, the body of Christ, around their towns, villages, and fields at the Feast of Corpus Christi. One underlying idea of these processions is…
…a disruptor of balance similar to what we saw in other systems, how then God himself incarnated, at least with his light side in Christ, at the beginning of of the aeon of the fishes, and how later his dark side also wanted to become man in the age…
…sickle, the instrument of the old harvest god, Saturn. He reaps the corn, and man is like the wheat which he cuts down. As Christ says, I say unto you, unless the grain of wheat falling into the ground die, itself remaineth alone. But if it die, it…
…other human beings. There is a parallel in the Christian tradition that after his resurrection through the coming down of the Holy Ghost, Christ is now, so to speak, living in every one of us as the inner Christ, which happened only after his death as a…
…resurrection through the coming down of the Holy Ghost, Christ is now, so to speak, living in every one of us as the inner Christ, which happened only after his death as a human being. In a very early Greek alchemical text of the first century AD, The…
…her wedding dress ready. She always puzzled what that could mean at her age, but now she knew it would be the wedding with Christ. In the more archaic Egyptian text, the sacred marriage is often described as a great sexual orgy in which the soul of the…
…stress that it is eternal shining immortal everlasting and so the woman realizes this golden dog is Christ so to speak the way how Christ appears within her he would be an image of what we call the self of the inner guiding principle this image of the…
…image of the self masculine or feminine the dog in this dream is still more or less a masculine figure as identified with Christ and that is one of the problems of our civilization that we have no divine feminine figure if a divine feminine figure…
…Bethlehem so the dream tells her that just where she has difficulties of understanding she will in her innermost being find that Christ is born within her own soul the Christ child represents the saving factor which is born within oneself we are not We…
…just where she has difficulties of understanding she will in her innermost being find that Christ is born within her own soul the Christ child represents the saving factor which is born within oneself we are not We are not divine, but we are the stable…
…We are not divine, but we are the stable in which something divine is born. There's a painting of Holman Hunts in which Christ is portrayed carrying a lantern and knocking on the doorway of the heart. there you have the animus in his positive function…
…churches have taught us to imitate Christ in the wrong way namely to imitate his outer actions I would rather call that to ape Christ and this aping of Christ has not gone under our skin we have not become christianized if you look at the history of…
…imitate Christ in the wrong way namely to imitate his outer actions I would rather call that to ape Christ and this aping of Christ has not gone under our skin we have not become christianized if you look at the history of the western world and its…
…lips and outwardly but when it comes to psychological facts we are complete pagan barbarians that is because we only ape Christ outwardly we make pious historical reminiscences we read the gospels we have the gospels repeated in church and nobody is reached…
…is going to happen namely his this mysterious wife pregnant wife of his is going to be crucified in the place of Christ. And he trembles in realizing the solemn performance. That is the solemn and crucial moment where we can see that the Christian…
…the solemn performance. That is the solemn and crucial moment where we can see that the Christian teaching or the mystery of what Christ represents reaches his own soul. This dream told me a number of things. The initial thing it said to me was that the…
…fro from one side to another. And each time, it hurts. Because each time, it means giving up something that is you. Christ has always been thought of as a masculine symbol, yet the dream uses Christ to represent the dreamer's femininity. It has always…
…means giving up something that is you. Christ has always been thought of as a masculine symbol, yet the dream uses Christ to represent the dreamer's femininity. It has always been taught by certain Christian mystics that we should be Christified, that the…
…femininity. It has always been taught by certain Christian mystics that we should be Christified, that the true imitation of Christ is to become Christ ourselves, to be transformed into Christ ourselves inwardly or psychologically. And that is now what the…
…been taught by certain Christian mystics that we should be Christified, that the true imitation of Christ is to become Christ ourselves, to be transformed into Christ ourselves inwardly or psychologically. And that is now what the dream predicts is happening…
…mystics that we should be Christified, that the true imitation of Christ is to become Christ ourselves, to be transformed into Christ ourselves inwardly or psychologically. And that is now what the dream predicts is happening to the dreamer. Now he will be…
…crucified between the opposite and he will know what it means to carry his own cross and to carry his own destiny to the ultimate Christ in a way is the model of a man who went alone along with his own fate and carried his own cross and fulfilled…
…Arc which is an appropriate association because Joan of Arc herself was such a crucified figure Joan of Arc she didn't ape Christ she imitated Christ in the right way in living her own destiny individual destiny right through the cross and right through…
…appropriate association because Joan of Arc herself was such a crucified figure Joan of Arc she didn't ape Christ she imitated Christ in the right way in living her own destiny individual destiny right through the cross and right through even outer death…
…thinks of Christ's conversation with the Samaritan woman that is also the beautiful historical example of the meeting of the family Christ one of the few meetings where Christ in a meaningful way encounters the feminine and takes up contact with it what's…
…Samaritan woman that is also the beautiful historical example of the meeting of the family Christ one of the few meetings where Christ in a meaningful way encounters the feminine and takes up contact with it what's the meaning of the dream being set in…