Being a Jungian analyst at this time in history is not particularly comfortable in most psychological or intellectual circles.
As I look back over my long relationship with Carl Jung and his ideas, beginning in 1969 when I read Erich Neumann's The Great Mother as a college senior writing an honors thesis on the image of the Virgin in the Middle Ages, I am struck by one theme: transference.
Alchemy is a term that is currently appearing with regularity in all sort of areas - revived and used anywhere and everywhere from the marketing speak of a computer corporation using "alchemy" lazily to describe a vague notion of combining art and science, to the use of the term in a more scientific context referring to the latest possibilities offered by nanotechnologies in the manipulation of elements.
The murder of a princess is an event that looms large in the world of myth, which is itself a larger-than-life world.
Whenever the will is placed in opposition to itself, the result is a neurotic conflict. It is not that complicated to understand. One does not have to be a psychologist.
