Quadrant: The Journal of the C.G. Jung Foundation
American Nekyia, Part Two — Edward F. Edinger
In the interlude following his meeting with Queequeg and prior to his signing on the ship, Ishmael attends the whalemen’s chapel and hears a dramatic sermon on Jonah. This sermon presents us with the voyage of Jonah as an analogy to the coming voyage of Ishmael. We must therefore consider the psychological meaning of the Jonah story as well as the general archetypal motif of which it is a particular example.…
The monster represents unconscious psychic energy in its natural, elemental, and undifferentiated state. It is untamed animal energy, not yet available for conscious civilized functioning. The ego is in constant danger of being devoured by the monster …
Psyche and Matter In Alchemy and Modern Science — Marie-Louise von Franz
Western alchemy originated in Alexandrian times when the philosophical mind of the Greeks encountered the techno-magic of the Orient and the North African cultures. Before this time, that great turn of mind had happened in Greece from the seventh to the fourth centuries B.C., that turn which one could call the birth of western science. Ultimately it consisted in a change of the god-image. Before this the Greeks venerated, as you all know, a group of anthropomorphic gods. But now a new archetypal image arose from the depths. The idea of one divine basic principle — arche, as they called it — of the universe. …
Through the influence of eastern astrology, a new idea came into the foreground which had been rather strange to the Greek mind before. Namely, the idea that certain basic psychic structures — we would now call them the archetypes — had a relation to time and to certain numinous moments of time. … When the speculative mind of the Greeks met with the experimental techno-magical practices and experiences of the Orient, they cross-fertilized each other tremendously. This was the moment of birth of alchemy. …
Birth Chart of the C.G. Jung Center — Pseudo-Scorpitarius
This Horoscope is a diagram of the actual physical pattern of our solar system at the moment of the C. G. Jung Center’s public opening. As has been known since ancient times, there is a high probability of synchronistic connections between the pattern in the sky and the quality of the moment it represents. Readers will recognize the chart as a time-bound mandala, which probably explains why a horoscope is particularly suitable for mirroring the total order of a significant moment. …
Book Reiviews
Number and Time: Reflections Leading Toward a Unification of Depth Psychology— Marie-Louise von Franz. Translated by Andrea Dykes. Evanston: Northwestern University Press. 1974. Two reviews: “A Physicist’s View” by Edward H. Russell, and “An Analyst’s View” by Nathan Schwartz.
The Mythic Image— Joseph Campbell. Assistd by M.J. Abadie. Bollingen Series C. Princeton University Press. Reviewed by Joseph Henderson.
In Time Like Glass: Reflections on a Journey in Asia— Evelyn Ames. Drawings by Joe Veno. Houghton Mifflin. Reviewed by Dorsha Hayes.
The Finger and the Moon— Geoffrey Ashe. Dun-Donnelley Publishing Co. Reviewed by Clare Keller.