Lament of the Dead

I don’t see him, either within his own terms or within the psychiatric terms of the time, or today, as being in the least bit psychotic, or unhinged, or at any point on the verge of tipping over.

“Not one item of the Christian law is abrogated, but instead we are adding a new one: accepting the lament of the dead.”

One could say he’s offering therapy for the dead.

Not only that, we read Jung in translation in English. It’s not even what Jung wrote. And somehow this must create maybe a six or a seven tremor in the underground.

SS: “And that’s all I have.”

To accept the lament of the dead.

He also later insists that the Godhead includes the feminine. But that’s also implied in the Red Book, isn’t it?

remembrance of the smallness of your human personality in a world filled with figures.

And also that would mean encountering the lament of the dead, or at least meeting the dead in some way, recognizing the dead.