Carl Gustav Jung Posters & Art Prints Gallery, pg 2/4
for classrooms and professional offices.

Jung addressed the idea of carnivals in Psychology and Alchemy “... The Dionysian elements has to do with emotions and affects which have found no suitable religious outlets in the predominantly Apollonian cult and ethos of Christianity. The medieval carnivals and jeux de paume in the Church were abolished relatively early; consequently the carnival became secularized ...”

• mask posters
• world celebration posters
• Mask making lesson plan ideas

The Book of Job, in the Hebrew Bible, tells the story of reconciling the co-existence of God and evil. Jung's Answer to Job “can be considered a depth-psychological examination of the Judeo-Christian myth ...” (Edinger, Transformation of the God-Image, pg 11)

• William Blake posters

“... On my next trip to the United States I went with a group of American friends to visit the Indians of New Mexico, the city-building Pueblos. ...” MDR, pg 247 (1925)

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Jung traveled to Africa in 1925 where he had an experience on the Athi Plain “... the stillness of the eternal beginning, the world as it had always been, in the state of non-being ... the first human being to recognize that this was the world, but who did not know that in this moment he had first really created it.” (MDR, 255)

FYI ~ The Athi Plains (named after the Athi River) are today part of the Nairobi National Park.

• Jung in Africa

FYI ~ Compare Carl Jung's experience to Thor Heyerdahl's statement - “I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.”

Jung intrepreted the alchemists of the Middle Ages task of changing lead into gold, as symbolically transforming humanity into God.

FYI- alchemy is the forerunners of today's chemistry.

[A reviewer in a recent issue of The Times Literary Supplement asks, “Why should the characters in the psychological novel be invariably horrid?” and is inclined to explain this state of affairs by the undiscriminating study of “the theories of two very estimable gentlemen, the sound of whose names one is beginning to dislike–Messrs. Freud and Jung.”]

The scarab beetle from Ancient Egypt was considered sacred with many amulets and stamp seals found in burials.

The scarab beetle is also a part of Carl G. Jung's article Synchronicity, An Acausal Connecting Principle. “A young woman I was treating had, at a critical moment, a dream in which she was given a golden scarab. While she was telling me this dream I sat with my back to the closed window. Suddenly I heard a noise behind me, like a gentle tapping. I turned round and saw a flying insect knocking against the window-pane from outside. I opened the window and caught the creature in the air as it flew in. It was the nearest analogy to a golden scarab that one finds in our latitudes, a scarabaeid beetle, the common rose-chafer (Cetonia aurata), which contrary to its usual habits had evidently felt an urge to get into a dark room at this particular moment.” [Coll. Works, vol. 8, § 843]