Who is my Jung? A personal and symbolic history

Abstract

Identifying the reality of Jung in my life requires first of all a historical examination. How Jung first came into my life through my reading a book by P.W.Martin, Experiment in Depth, stands as a metaphor for the conscious unravelling of psychological development. His further appearance in a sequence of dreams demonstrated the significance of both the instinctual and the numinous in Jung's life and in my personal individuation. Finally, through a consideration of light and shadow, particularly in two photographs of Jung, a conclusion is reached that individuation requires an integration of shadow in the personality, in order to achieve wholeness, not perfection.

Keywords: Alchemie; Numinosität; Phallus; Schatten; Sexualität; Vater; alchemy; alchimia; alchimie; alquimia; fallo; falo; father; numinosidad; numinosity; numinosità; numinosité; ombra; ombre; padre; phallus; père; sessualità; sexualidad; sexuality; sexualité; shadow; sombra; алхимия; нуминозность; отец; сексуальность; тень; фаллос; 性; 炼金术; 父亲; 神秘性; 阴茎, 阴影.