Claire Dunne 의 'Carl Jung - Wounded healer of the soul - 중

"My soul, my soul, where are you?"

"You should be ... not Christian but Christ, otherwise you will be of no use to the coming God."

Soul counsels acceptance of solitude, the inner loneliness of knowing, uncertainty of path or goal, and fear and possibility of madness as part of his journey.

"My path is not your path," and, "to live oneself is to be one's own task."

To the sensitive and vulnerable Carl it wass a suffocating atomosphere.

"soulstone"

But in Jung's midlife struggle for himself there was not much to give out to his family. It was he himself who still needed all the support he could find.

Jung's vision-figure Philemon was a winged spirit

Abraxas combines good and evil in a unity.

mandalas, the Sanskrit word for circle.

Individuation is the experience of a natural law, an inner self-regulating process by which man becomes a whole human being acknowledging and living the total range of himself. (skip) The human being thus recognizes itself as both material and spiritual, conscious and unconscious.

Individuation means that a man becomes an adult, knowing "that he does not only depend on God but that God also depends on man."

the wholeness he spoke of mean completion, not perfection.

Bollingen_ inviting solitude he needed.

I don't believe in the tiger who was finally converted to vegetarianism and ate only apples.

This man did in fact accept the shadow and ... this acceptance brought problems and tensions but also aliveness, reality, integrity, and depth of being. (skip)
Recognizing the shadow is what I call th eapprenticeship. But making otu with the anima is whta I call the masterpice shich not many bring off.

Toilers of the Sea; painting by Albert P. Ryer, c. 1915
long identified as the oceanic in man.
(인상깊은 그림. 바다, 하늘, 고래를 닮은 배)

walk on water - that is, he can see above the churning of his unconscious.

Nobody can live it for you or instead of you. Your life is what you try to live. If I should try to put you through something it would be my life and not yours.

1940, as the world entered the Age of Aquarius.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.

It is not the reality of the hydrogen bomb that we need to fear, but what man will do with it.

A change in the attitude of the individual can bring about a renewal in the spirit of the nations.

Happiness and contentment, equability of mind and meaningfulness of life - these can be experienced only by individual and not by a State, which, on the other hand is nothing but a convention agreed to by independent individuals and, on the other, continually threatens to paralyze and suppress the individual .... The social and political circumstances of the time are certainly of considerable significance, but their importance for the weal or woe of the individual has been boundlessly overestimated in so far as they are taken for the sole deciding factors. In this respect all our social goals commit the error of overlooking the psychology of the person for whom they are intended and - very often - of promoting only his illusions.

Just as men, as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, (skip) For this he needs the evidence of inner, transcendent experience which alone can protect him from the otherwise inevitable submersion in the mass.

When John Freeman asked Jung in a 1959 BBC interview if he believed in God, he answered, "I don't need to believe ... I know."
(같은 대답을 가진 나, 이 말은 진정한 이해보다는 많은 오해를 불러일으킨 듯하다.)

But Jung always knew at heart that his life, if understood, pointed a way.

If I ask the value of my life, I can only measure myself against the centuries and then I must say, Yes, it means something. Measured by the ideas of today, it means nothing.

In each aeon there are at least a few individuals who understand what man's real task consists of, and keep its tradition for future generations and a time when insight has reached a deeper and more general level. First the way of a few will be changed and such insight, no matter how isolated he is, should be aware of the law of synchronicity. As the old Chinese saying goes: "The right man sitting in his house and thinking the right thought will be heard a hundred miles away."

- 그림들이 곁들여진 아름다운 책. 자신의 입장에서 서술된 자서전과 제3자의 입장에서 조명된 개인의 일생은 분명 다른 부분이 있는 듯하다. 그러나, 융이 인생을 통해 끊임없이 추구하고, 통합하려는 모습은 어디서나 보여진다.
그의 고독에의 요구, 그러나 이해받지 못함에서 오는 외로움, 생의 의미에 대한 끊임없는 추구.

그의 통찰은 놀랄만큼 솔직하면서도 직관적이다. 사회적 동물로서의 인간에 대해서 꿰뚫어보면서도, 그 사회에 의해 인간이 처하게 되는 비인간적인 환경에 대해서도 정확히 짚어내고 있다. 그러나, 그가 작고한지 50년이 지난 지금 그가 우려하던 사회나 조직에서의 인간은 점점 그 크기가 작아지고 있다.
1900년대 초반에, 혹은 그 이전에, 기억되는 것이 사람의 이름들이라면, 현대에서는 오직 회사, 기관들의 이름들이 더 크게 울리고 있다. 새로운 상품의 이름은 기억되지만 정작 그 상품을 만든 사람들은 알려지지 않는다. 물건에 의해 지배받고, 사회에 갇혀산다. 개인의 삶의 의미에 대해서 생각할 시간은, 융이 경고했던 대로, 새로운 gadget 들에 의해 모두 사라졌다.
인간은 사라지고, 역할만 남았다. '내면에 대한 추구'는 웃음거리밖에 되지 않는다. 생각의 이해받지 못함에 대한 외로움은 그가 살았던 시대보다, 그 생각에 욕구조차 매장된 현대에 와서 더 크다. '생각'은 '역할'을 차지하기 위한 도구로서만 그 명맥을 이어갈 뿐이다.
인터넷과 대중매체를 통해 얻은 소통의 기회는 그 무절제에 의해 '무관심'과 '무감각'이라는 병만 안겨줬다. 기술이 안겨준 편의?에 정작 빼앗긴 것은 무엇인지 절실히 생각해봐야 하지 않을까?

그가 말한대로, 이 시대의 올바른 사람의 정신이 널리 들릴 수 있기를! 절실히 바란다.