![]() ![]() Her life remains for us today both as exemplary and as a duty. With admirable modesty and an untiring love of the truth she dedicated her life to exploring and researching the human soul-and to carrying on the work of C. She died a quiet death after a prolonged and consuming illness which she mastered with venerable patience, utter dignity and full mental clarity. I have the painful duty of informing you of the passing away of our honorary member Marie-Louise von Franz, Ph. In her passport-even as late as 1979-she declared her profession to be a “language teacher” with no mention of being a psychoanalyst. until one dies a miserable death on the way.” ~Marie-Louise Von Franz, Homage to MLVF, Page xxxiv “It is amazing how the unconscious never ceases to confront one with one’s own shadow right up to the very end. “What we are to our inward vision, and what man appears to be sub specie aeternitatis, can only be expressed by way of myth.” ~Carl Jung, MDR, She said to me, ‘I don’t understand it yet, but I know you are right.’ ~Homage to MLVF, Introduction, Page xxxiii There is an old woman in the village nearby who told me she had read one of my books once through and was going to read it again. Jung purportedly responded: “But my books ate difficult to read, they are full of old Greek and Latin.” The woman replied: “Yes, but they touch the heart” ~Homage to MLVF, Introduction, Page xxxiii In another version of this story, a kiosk woman told Jung that she had read his books with great joy. ~Homage to MLVF, Introduction, Page xxxii Like Jung, she considered animals as being naturally more sublime than human beings, who all too often disappointed, exploited, betrayed, or deceived her. Marie-Louise van Franz’s tower in Bollingen was her “life’s elixir,” as she once said, and frogs and toads were her favorite animals. ![]() Hence my problem with speaking.” ~Marie-Louise Von Franz, Homage to MLVF, Page xxix. She answered, “No, because I try to see the criminal in me. ~Marie-Louise Von Franz, Homage to MLVF, Page xxix And when I do something good, evil may come out of it and then I no longer know whether I should save it. When I do something evil, good may come out of it and then I no longer know whether I should stop it or continue. The problem is that the opposites are too close to each other in me. ~Carl Jung, Homage to MLVF, Page xxiv-xxv It’s the ordinary people, often quite poor people and why do they do it? Because there’s a need in the world just now for spiritual guidance. Do you know who reads my books? Not the academic people, oh no, they think they know everything already. Trouble is, they don’t bother to read my books because they’re too high hat. Most of haven’t the remotest idea what I am talking about. – Marie-Louise Von Franz, Homage to MLVF, Page xx It’s the ordinary people, often quite poor people and the quiet ones who sow seeds. Carl Jung Depth Psychology Facebook Group ![]()
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