gesang reviewed Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Gustav Jung
The Pinnacle of Modern Schellingianism
5 stars
This is in effect, in the form of autobiography, a gentle introduction to the innermost core of theological anthropology, comparative mythology, and modern Schellingianism. Jung is not a psychologist or a psychoanalyst, he's a thinker and a "mystic" in the Boehmian-Schellingian tradition.
Schelling is the original theoretician of the unconscious, and his notion of unconscious is more in line with Jung than Freud. Jung read von Hartmann and Boehme diligently and was probably the greatest authority regarding medieval alchemy, hermeticism, gnoscitism, ancient Christianity, etc., adding a layer of textual and phenomenological evidence to Schelling and Boehme's prophetic insight.
And in the last three chapters, namely, "Visions", "On Life after Death", and "Late Thoughts", modern Schellingianism is on full display, in its full power, where psyche and matter are intermingled, and Time and Eternity become graspable. If you try to understand, try again and again, the shape of the reality that …
This is in effect, in the form of autobiography, a gentle introduction to the innermost core of theological anthropology, comparative mythology, and modern Schellingianism. Jung is not a psychologist or a psychoanalyst, he's a thinker and a "mystic" in the Boehmian-Schellingian tradition.
Schelling is the original theoretician of the unconscious, and his notion of unconscious is more in line with Jung than Freud. Jung read von Hartmann and Boehme diligently and was probably the greatest authority regarding medieval alchemy, hermeticism, gnoscitism, ancient Christianity, etc., adding a layer of textual and phenomenological evidence to Schelling and Boehme's prophetic insight.
And in the last three chapters, namely, "Visions", "On Life after Death", and "Late Thoughts", modern Schellingianism is on full display, in its full power, where psyche and matter are intermingled, and Time and Eternity become graspable. If you try to understand, try again and again, the shape of the reality that you perceive will be transformed fundamentally.
