Lament of the Dead

I call the therapy of ideas. I think we’re sick from ideas.

I felt I was only doing this for the dead. I was not talking to the audience. Twice, at least, I felt that. It was not for them. So it didn’t matter to me if anyone understood what the hell I was trying to do.

He didn’t teach what he believed, he taught what he knew. That was the message that Jung learned from Philemon.

The book is affirming the value of taking one’s individual experience, one’s individual fantasies, seriously.

I gave was called “The Language of Psychology and the Speech of the Soul,”77 and I wanted to show this tremendous contrast between the language of psychopathology, with the way the soul speaks, and how we must find another language.

And it provides a technique for encouraging and learning from imagination. It gives imagination a much more concrete life

we think the figures we uncover in our dreams or in active imagination are the result of us, but he says we are the result of them.

If you shift from that language to the confrontation with the dead, accepting the lament of the dead, one’s understanding changes dramatically in that one enters a world and the problems one takes up and is confronted with are not one’s own.

At that point he realizes conceptual language is inadequate to encapsulate the language of the soul. It is the language of the soul, as far as he’s concerned, because it is his dialogue to and with his soul.