Jung, in one discussion with Von Franz, mentioned a patient, who asserted that she has been on the moon where she had to fight a demon. So vividly was she talking as though this woman had really been on the moon. Marie-Louise von Franz, somehow irritated, objected that this young woman might have dreamed or fantasized that she was on the moon. Hereupon Jung looked at her very seriously and replied: \u201cNo, she was on the moon!\u201d Throughout his work Jung variously refers to the psyche as \u201c\u2026 reality par excellence,\u201d the \u201cauctor rerum\u2026 the ground and substrate\u201d of reality, \u201c\u2026the greatest of all cosmic wonders and the sine qua non of the world as an object.\u201d Accordingly, when coming to any encounter with the unconscious, be it mystical ecstasy \u00a0or psychotic torment, the images erupting into view are taken as holding ontological status, as being real. This seminar will explore both the psychological and philosophical grounds of such a claim, aiming to explore the ontic \u2018reality of the psyche\u2019 and the deep underworld of the unconscious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jung, in one discussion with Von Franz, mentioned a patient, who asserted that she has been on the moon where she had to fight a demon. So vividly was she talking as though this woman had really been on the moon. Marie-Louise von Franz, somehow irritated, objected that this young woman might have dreamed or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":108931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[542],"mec_speaker":[2279],"class_list":["post-108930","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-webinar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n