Marie-Louise von Franz: Restored 1977 Interview with Prologue by The Jungian Aion
September 12, 2025 at 04:00PM
Hello Brothers and Sisters, and welcome to the Jungian Aion!
Enjoy this rare and fascinating interview with Marie-Louise von Franz and Suzanne Wagner. It was filmed in 1977 at von Franz’s tower retreat in Bollingen, Switzerland – a place blessed with Jung’s spirit and in the silence of the Swiss landscape.
Von Franz, Jung’s closest collaborator and interpreter of alchemy, dreams, and fairy tales, speaks here with clarity and depth. This conversation opens a window into her way of seeing the psyche, where symbols are living realities and the unconscious is treated as a guiding presence rather than an abstract idea.
Thank you for being here and for sharing this moment in our collective human experience. My aim in offering this interview is to let Jung’s work permeate our modern consciousness, bridging the gap between the archetypal reality of the collective unconscious and the practical fabric of our daily lives. That means recognizing how ancestral wisdom continues to move through our rituals, habits, and the unconscious patterns we usually don’t notice.
I share this with passion and devotion, in service to our individual and collective path of individuation – the lifelong journey of self-realization, transformation, and the discovery of our soul’s true purpose.
00:00 T.J.Aion Prologue
03:14 Suzanne Wagner’s Introduction
06:06 Interview Begins
11:47 Method with Jung and entering the Grail work
18:53 Projection, shadow, and animus
24:55 Relationships and love beyond projection
34:48 Fate and chance
40:49 Heaven round, earth square
46:08 Science and psyche – dialogue at the edge
51:57 Main value of Jung’s psychology
59:02 Synchronicity and first notes on number
1:04:57 Disidentifying with the animus
1:14:59 Psyche as reality – direct confrontation
1:23:47 Number archetypes and time
1:36:04 Finishing Jung’s Grail book and Parzival
1:42:24 Individuation and the subtle body – what endures
1:52:01 Grail as vessel in life
2:03:57 Jealousy and anima-anima mischief – ethical work
2:11:58 Power complex and humility in practice
2:17:46 Marriage today
2:23:59 Vow, container, and relation
2:30:01 Self-reflection and shared conclusions
2:36:22 Final counsel – supporting the unconscious
Thank you for being here.
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