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.
…finally in his most sublime aspect is a God image and the anima in her sublime aspect is a goddess. See the Virgin Mary. So if that is projected, it makes for a very, very violent transference. And then slowly one discovers, naturally, no partner can…
…people anymore. And the Christian myth is deficient on not including enough the feminine, or in Catholicism they have the Virgin Mary, but it's only the purified feminine. It's not the dark feminine. And in excluding matter and treating matter as dead and…
…other is the prostitute with whom he has sex but whom he thoroughly despises this kind of split in the anima between the virgin Mary and the prostitute is typical for the mother complex and such men then if they have to approach a woman they don't know…
…in his dreams the anima has many stages and embraces a great range of psychological facts Jung once divided it in four Eve, Helena, Mary and Sophia the wisdom of God Eve would be the biological woman and when she appears as an anima she would be the…
…companion in the woman a companionship together with romantic sex the next stage is the anima fig in Christianity of the Virgin Mary which is the highest form of spirituality but a bit one-sidedly too high up the Virgin Mary is lacking the dark eve…
…the anima fig in Christianity of the Virgin Mary which is the highest form of spirituality but a bit one-sidedly too high up the Virgin Mary is lacking the dark eve side of woman the earthy side of woman so it is a bit too lofty ideal and when the…
…of woman so it is a bit too lofty ideal and when the church abolished the they forced the knights to worship the Virgin Mary instead and at the same time they began the witch hunting that means the dark side the shadow side or the more biological and…
…side or the more biological and while the more natural side of the anima is too much excluded from the ideal of the Virgin Mary and therefore the fourth stage is the wisdom of God is as Jung smilingly quoted is a come down because wisdom is not most…
…she was pregnant, he had this dream. Behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, Do not fear to take Mary for your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. She will bear a son, and you shall call His…
…and Joseph according to the spirit of the time took that completely literally and accepted it and stood up for the Virgin Mary and accompanied her and protected the child and carried all the difficulties for her without ever wavering in his faith because…
…have been in dreams in the jewish world in the old testament kings prophets leaders listen to their dreams In the New Testament, Mary listened to the inner voice, bore a divine child, and her husband Joseph was told to take the mother and child to Egypt…
…of his individual identity. In life, we derive our feeling of identity from the body. If you ask a small child, where is Mary? She says, here is Mary. We feel that way. And therefore, the Egyptians thought that the statue sometimes stylized in this form,…
…life, we derive our feeling of identity from the body. If you ask a small child, where is Mary? She says, here is Mary. We feel that way. And therefore, the Egyptians thought that the statue sometimes stylized in this form, stylized as a human being, or…
…positive one, then he tends to idealize women. He sees in every woman the Beatrice of Dante, so to speak, or the Virgin Mary, and then such men cannot approach women again with their lower parts, with sexually and in ordinary human life. Or they have a…