If someone comes in talking about spirits, he talks about spirits.

The dead want to take you over. It is then a quite literal possession that is at play there. At risk there. But in a way it’s only through recognizing their demands that one is actually able to separate out from them at the same time and regain one’s independence.

When he talks about the dead he means the dead. And they’re present in images. They still live on.

key issue of suffering is loss of meaning.

“We are lived by powers we pretend to understand.”

The language of the Red Book is in my view Jung’s most insightful, precisely because it is not conceptual.

That’s the theme of the Red Book, which is, “We need the coldness of death to see clearly.”

Well, this is Jung without concepts. You find Jung expressing the essence of his activities, tasks, his oeuvre, without a single conceptual term. There is no archetype. There’s no unconscious, and he gets by quite fine without it. In fact, he manages to express himself in a more fitting and particular way.

it—the idea of the profoundly personal. The deep subjectivity.