Summary of Carl Gustav Jung's Memories, Dreams, Reflections

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I have many memories from when I was young, but the earliest is from when I was six months old. I was lying in a pram in the shadow of a tree, and I saw the sun glittering through the leaves and blossoms. Everything was wholly wonderful and splendid.
#2 I was born in 1878, and my parents were soon separated. I remember my mother spending several months in a hospital in Basel, and I remember the time when I was crossing the bridge over the Rhine Falls to Neuhausen. I may have been suicidal or resistant to life in this world.
#3 I had fears at night, and I would hear things walking about in the house. I would say a prayer every evening, which gave me a sense of comfort in face of the vague uncertainties of the night.
#4 I had a traumatic encounter with a Jesuit priest when I was between three and four years old. I was terrified of him, and hid under a beam in the attic. I did not know what Jesuits were, but I was familiar with the word Jesus from my little prayer.

Sujets

• Jesus
• Jesús de Nazaret
• Jésus de Nazareth
• Carl Jung

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 24 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781669363910
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Carl Gustav Jung's Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I have many memories from when I was young, but the earliest is from when I was six months old. I was lying in a pram in the shadow of a tree, and I saw the sun glittering through the leaves and blossoms. Everything was wholly wonderful and splendid.

#2

I was born in 1878, and my parents were soon separated. I remember my mother spending several months in a hospital in Basel, and I remember the time when I was crossing the bridge over the Rhine Falls to Neuhausen. I may have been suicidal or resistant to life in this world.

#3

I had fears at night, and I would hear things walking about in the house. I would say a prayer every evening, which gave me a sense of comfort in face of the vague uncertainties of the night.

#4

I had a traumatic encounter with a Jesuit priest when I was between three and four years old. I was terrified of him, and hid under a beam in the attic. I did not know what Jesuits were, but I was familiar with the word Jesus from my little prayer.

#5

I had a dream in which I saw a dark, rectangular, stone-lined hole in the ground. I ran forward curiously and peered down into it. Then I saw a stone staircase leading down. I was afraid to go down, but I did anyway.

#6

I had a recurring dream as a child in which I saw the underground God, a terrifying revelation which had been given to me without my seeking it. The God of Christianity seemed to me in some ways a god of death, helpful in that he scared away the terrors of the night, but also eerie.

#7

I had a childhood dream that was a burial into the earth, which was a initiation into the realm of darkness. My intellectual life had its unconscious beginnings at that time.

#8

My parents took me on an excursion to Basel when I was six years old.

#9

I was extremely sensitive and vulnerable as a child, and I spent a lot of time alone. I loved playing with blocks, and I would build towers that I would then destroy by an earthquake. I spent a lot of time drawing and painting.

#10

I had anxiety dreams about things that were now small, now large. For instance, I saw a tiny ball at a great distance, and it grew steadily into a monstrous and suffocating object. Or I saw telegraph wires with birds sitting on them, and the wires grew thicker and thicker.

#11

I had a premonition of an inescapable world of shadows filled with frightening, unanswerable questions. I was afraid of the change in me, and I feared the split between my inner security and the beauty of the bright daylight world.

#12

I had a secret library for my manikin, which I would fill with scrolls of paper on which I had written things in a secret language. I would take the case to the attic and look at it, and each time I did this, I would place a little scroll of paper on which I had written something during school hours.

#13

I had a secret that I was never able to share with anyone. It was an inviolable secret that must never be betrayed for the safety of my life depended on it. I was always absorbed by it and had the feeling I ought to fathom it, but I didn’t know what it was I was trying to express.

#14

I had carved two similar figures out of wood when I was in England in 1920. One of them I had reproduced on a larger scale in stone, and this figure now stands in my garden in Küsnacht. Only when I was doing this work did the unconscious provide me with a name.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

When I was nine years old, my mother had had a little girl. My father was excited and pleased. Tonight you’ve been given a little sister, he said to me, and I was utterly surprised, for I hadn’t noticed anything. I felt nothing for my mother’s lying in bed more frequently than usual.

#2

I had a very difficult time dealing with the fact that my sister was born after my mother had the unpleasant habit of calling after me all sorts of good advice when I was setting out for someplace new. I felt that it was unfair that the inferiority feelings that accompanied my self-importance were exposed to the world.

#3

I began to pray to God, and this somehow satisfied me because it was a prayer without contradictions. God was not a person in a black robe, and not Lord Jesus of the pictures, draped with brightly colored clothes, with whom people behaved so familiarly.

#4

I was bored with school. It took up too much of my time, and I would rather have spent it drawing battles and playing with fire. I was terrified of the mathematics class. The teacher tried to explain to me the purpose of the class, but I could not understand what numbers were.

#5

I was so afraid of failure that I did not dare to ask questions in class. I was also forced to copy prints of Greek gods with sightless eyes, and when that didn’t go properly, the teacher thought I needed something more naturalistic.

#6

In my twelfth year, I began to have fainting spells whenever I had to return to school. I spent the holidays with relatives in Winterthur, and when I returned home, everything was as before. I had to get to work.

#7

I had a neurosis when I was young, and it led me to become very punctilious and diligent. I would get up at five o’clock in the morning to study, and I would work until seven in the evening.

#8

I had an experience that changed my life when I was invited to spend the holidays with friends who had a house on Lake Lucerne. I was thrilled to have access to a boat and rowboat, and I used them to the fullest.

#9

I had a strange feeling when I saw an old carriage from the Black Forest drive past my house. It was as though someone had stolen something from me, or as though I had been cheated out of my beloved past.

#10

I began to realize that I was living in two ages simultaneously: the age of my grandfather, who had lived in the nineteenth century, and the age of me, who lived in the twentieth. I was confused, and I felt two different people. I could not think of the cathedral square without feeling overwhelmed by its beauty, because it was a symbol of God’s beauty. But I couldn’t think about it.

#11

I struggled to resist the temptation to think about the cathedral and God. I almost continued the thought! I felt my resistance weakening. I woke up from a restless sleep, and caught myself thinking about the cathedral and God. I was relieved that I had stopped myself from thinking about it.

#12

I was able to finally understand what God wanted with me, and I knew that I had to obey Him. I was not going to resist much longer. I gathered all my courage, as though I were about to leap into hell-fire, and let the thought come.

#13

After my experience, I understood what God’s grace was. I had never been sure of myself, but after that experience, I was completely sure of myself. I was also completely inferior, and I understood that God’s grace was something terrible.

#14

I had a secret that was part of the great secret, and it induced in me an almost unendurable loneliness. I was always trying to understand it, but I never did. I felt as if I were either outlawed or elect, accursed or blessed.

#15

I had many discussions with my father, but they always ended in disappointment.