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As my mental image of Marie-Louise comes into focus, I am puzzled at the audience she is lecturing for: obviously intellectuals gathered in Zurich who would recognize Eddington’s contribution to physics as well as the habits of gamblers and primitive cultures around the world. I see an early-career Pierre Bourdieu somewhere in the crowd formulating his own theory of habitus while von Franz lectures on field matrices.
— Nov 25, 2017 03:36PM
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Kyle
is on page 117 of 128
Summing up the lecture series with a direct approach on synchronicity, von Franz goes to the source with her colleague Jung whose artistic creation shaped the world of psychology, here seen as the cage of reality and boundless freedom of eternity peeked at through an experience of Self. She even works in a personal swipe at the Red Book inquirer, amidst her research into chance, of his cheating at solitaire.
— Aug 17, 2018 12:36PM
Kyle
is on page 97 of 128
Ideas about time, space and numbers are thrown at the audience with such candid ease that belies her dense oral text: at times it seems like counting to ten and back is the most complex cognitive task any culture attempted, while on the other hand, the earliest dreams of a child contains the seeds of the future. No wonder that her mentor Jung is both an infection and spiritual awakening for these lucky lecture goers.
— Aug 10, 2018 07:27PM
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is on page 50 of 128
Amusing how Marie-Louise continues her lecture on divination by calling out the stupid conclusions of certain colleagues and the binary assumptions of primitive societies, as if her research had to endure so many fallacious methods of inquiry. Her serious encounters with palmists shows that she has an open mind to the many ways of getting at a meaningful truth, the kind that gets each of us out of bed in the morning.
— Nov 19, 2017 10:53AM
Kyle
is on page 27 of 128
Friend and fellow psychoanalyst M.-L. von Franz lectures in support some of Jung’s wilder and harder to demonstrate theories of mind by delving into divination, what she sees as the ancient practice of primitive (perhaps bicameral minded) cultures. It extends everywhere within consciousness: from calculations by counting five on our fingers to probabilistic estimations of very small and extremely fast quantum events.
— Nov 01, 2017 01:24PM
