In an unspoken voice

Protea!

Ingrid Jonker: I repeat you

I repeat you
Without beginning or end,
I repeat your body.
The day has a thin shadow
and the night yellow crosses
the landscape without regard
and the people a row candles
while I repeat you
with my breasts
that reforms the hollows of your hands

 

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The Layers of Therapy

“Therapy is like peeling away layers of an artichoke; as you peel away the outside layers, another layer is there to deal with. And those leaves can be prickly. After peeling away many layers , you get to the core of who you really are” Zimberoff (2013, p. 88).  

The knowledge of the heart

The knowledge of the heart is in no book and is not to be found in the mouth of any teacher, but grows out of you like the green seed from the dark earth...But how can I attain the knowledge of the heart? You can attain this knowledge only by living your life to the full.- Carl Jung, 1913

The prospective function of dreams in The Red Book

The dream is not only the fulfillment of infantile desires, but also symbolizes the future ... The dream provides the answer through the symbol, which one must understand. – Carl Jung, 1912

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul…The spirit of the depths even taught me to consider my action and my decision on dreams. Dreams pave the way of life, and they determine you without you understanding their language. One would like to learn this language, but who can teach and learn it? There is a knowledge of the heart that gives deeper insight. – Carl Jung, 1913

Inner images in The Red Book

            

In 1957, near the end of his life, Jung spoke to Aniela Jaffé about the Red Book and the process which yielded it; in that interview he stated:

"The years… when I pursued the inner images, were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It began at that time, and the later details hardly matter anymore. My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me. That was the stuff and material for more than only one life. Everything later was merely the outer classification, scientific elaboration, and the integration into life. But the numinous beginning, which contained everything, was then."