"The Creative Power of Soul: A Central Testimony of Jung's Red Book" by Dr. Paul Brutsche
Channel: Carl Jung Depth Psychology Reading Group
Date: 2019-07-07

"The Creative Power of Soul: A Central Testimony of Jung's Red Book by Dr. Paul Brutsche

Reference: _Jung's Red Book for Our Time: Searching for Soul under Postmodern Conditions_, Volume 3, Edited by Dr. Murray Stein & Dr. Thomas Arzt.

You are encouraged to watch the remarkable 3.25 minute documentary by Digital Fusion on the making of the 2009 Folio Edition of Dr. Jung's Red Book: https://youtu.be/nIBQFSwX1UY  

01:04:34--OUTTAKES--

01:45--"sui generis"--Anything sui generis is its own thing; there's nothing else like it.

02:07--_The Red Book_ "offers an experience of Soul, an existential testimony of an encounter with the Soul."

03:21--"Soul creativity is different from creativity in science ...."

04:21--"The Zeitgeist and the 'Hero' as Impediments to the Soul."

11:14--"The monkey's manner is a way of life for monkeys, and for man as long as he is like a monkey ...."

13:40--Creative process and the faraway goal difficult to attain.

14:13--"The Recognition of Soul's Creativity in Its Antagonism"

20:35--"Creative action and expression ... spring from the imaginative reality of the soul itself."

23:09--"I had to recognize and accept that my Soul is a child, and that my God in my Soul is a child."

26:54--"... to an _esse in anima_, to the vivid experience that the human being is founded in the autonomous imaginative Soul."

30:22--"Events signify nothing , they signify only in us. We create the meaning of events. ...."

**31:07--"...we can say that analysis can also be understood as a creative reinterpretation of life and personality stimulated by the Soul of the analysand.... analysand's life is released from its meaningless factuality and transformed into a suggestive story."

32:07--"...the contemplative attention to actual life as such is a beneficial and creative achievement.  It opens "a way of salvation,"i.e. blind being is transformed into revelation of meaning."

35:32--"... describes the method he would later call active imagination."

36:07--"The most important thing about active imagination is the idea of taking the 'unknown wanderer' seriously and dealing with it as a 'real person'."

37:02--"In the outer reality, real is what is.  In the inner reality, real is what has an effect."

42:57--"Nietzsche put it thus in his famous poetic thought: 'One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.'"

43:52--"Creativity needs to unfold the experience of the disordered and chaotic, in order to create a new order and new meaning."

45:42--"The meaning of events is the way of salvation that you create.... This symbolic understanding is what allows the Soul to live."

51:12--"People atrophy mentally and physically in an environment that offers no creative space."

55:49--"The Foundation of Spiritual Creativity in a New Image of God"

56:53--"One can speak of a true Prophetic calling."

57:45--"A conscious or unconscious conception of God ultimately shapes the basic attitude of every human being...."

01:02:55--Introduction to Dr. Paul Brutsche

01:03:33--ISAP=International School of Analytical Psychology Zurich (ISAP Zurich)

01:04:34--OUTTAKES--
  
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