Word: jung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Death is psychologically just as important as birth," wrote Carl Gustav Jung. "As the arrow flies to the target, so life ends in death . . . Shrinking away from it is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose...
...Jung never shrank from death, but with his powerful constitution and ever-young, inquiring mind, he held it long at bay. Last week, in the willow-shaded seclusion of his home at Küsnacht, on Lake Zurich, the long-poised arrow flew to its target. Death came peacefully, just short of his 86th birthday, to Carl Gustav Jung -the last survivor of psychology's Big Three and of the great feuds that raged among them...
Sigmund Freud saw the prime mover of the unconscious as sexual energy or libido; Alfred Adler made it the drive for power to overcome inferiority feelings. In his "analytical psychology," Jung divided the unconscious into two layers. Within one, relatively superficial, he gave libido and the power drive less ambitious roles. In the second and far deeper stratum, he perceived the force of the primeval, collective unconscious of the human race...
...Jung, the systems constructed by his rivals were narrow-gauge, "nothing-but" explanations of human behavior and aspirations, which reduced man's most numinous visions to sordid sex symbols and shrank his soul to the vanishing point. Jung posed bolder concepts-reaching for the ultimate limits of the universe and of man's relationship to his God or gods...
...Messrs. Rexroth and Christensen may believe that they created something free of Freud and Jung when they offered their San Francisco ballet titled Original Sin to the public. In reality, they are much closer to the two psychiatrists than to the original sinners. Their Adam and Eve dance is in the tradition of sorcerers and witches, young nobles and peasants of the 14th century (see cut from The Entry of Isabel of Bavaria into Paris as Bride of Charles...