Carl Gustav Jung Posters & Art Prints Gallery

Swiss Psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung sitting on stone wall overlooking Lake Zurich.

In Memories, Dreams, Reflections (pg 7) ... This expanse of water was an inconceivable pleasure to me, an incomparable splendor ... I must live near a lake...; and (pg 78) "... So profound was the impression this made upon me ...

I still see myself, grown up and independent ... sitting on the terrace ... beside Lake Lucerne, or in the beautiful gardens of Vitznau ... the foot of those giant mountains whose tops were covered with gleaming glaciers.

Carl Jung was on the cover of TIME Magazine in February, 1955 for the story "The Old Wise Man".

1909 Psychology Conference at Clark University

“The Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung lectures at Clark University were only one part of a series of scholarly conferences held during July and September of 1909 to observe the University's twentieth anniversary of becoming the 2nd graduate school in the United States. Indeed, Clark's distinguished reputation was part of the reason that Freud and Jung decided to speak here; they were relatively unknown while Clark was highly respected. ...”

The Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover was a collage of the "People We Like", 'we' being the Beatles. Jung is the 7th from the left in the top row.

At the age of eleven or twelve Jung had a vision of the cathedral at Basel: ..."I gathered up all my courage, as though I were about to leap forthwith into hell-fire, and let the thought come. I saw before me the cathedral, the blue sky. God sits on His golden throne, high above the world–and from under the throne an enormous turd falls upon the sparking new roof, shatters it, and breaks the walls of the cathedral asunder." Memories, Dreams, Reflections, pg 39

This illustration from the late 15th century shows one of the cathedral towers under construction.

• architecture posters

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

Jung used the Hindu word "mandala", a symbolic representation the centeredness, balance, and harmony of the cosmos, to amplify his understanding of the Self as 'the"nuclear atom" of the human psyche'.

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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)

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"... 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 in Africa where he had an experience on the Athi Plains "... 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)

The young Carl Jung enjoyed looking at Camille Flammarion's Book of Astronomy according to Deirdre Bair, Jung: A Biography, (pg 50). FYI - the woodcut's first documented appearance was in Flammarion's publication.

• History of Posters

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."]

On the Water, Illustration from "The Nutcracker," by E.T.A. Hoffman
b. 1-24-1776, Prussia
d. 6-25-1822, Berlin

Carl Jung read Hoffman's The Devil's Elixirs and found its problems "palpably real", influencing his theory of archetypes.
(Jung in Context, ed. by Paul Bishop, 1999)

• The Best Tales of Hoffmann
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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]