Carl Gustav Jung Posters & Art Prints Gallery

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

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'.

• Buddhism posters

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)

• William Blake posters

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.

"... 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

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“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” Joseph Campbell

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• motivational posters

Wolfgang Ernst Pauli
b. 4-25-1900; Vienna
d. 12-15-1958; Switzerland

Physicist Wolfgang Pauli, awarded the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physics, consulted with Carl Gustav Jung on his deeply archetypal dreams, documented in “Psychology and Alchemy”. Their letters are published as “Atom and Archetype”.

• Pauli and Jung: The Meeting of Two Great Minds

Jackson Pollock
b. 1-28-1912; Cody, Wyoming
d. 8-11-1956; Springs, NY (car accident)

Abstract Expressionist artist Jackson Pollock was influenced by Jung's theory of archetypes.

• East Village Guide Map poster
• Jackson Pollock - Love & Death on Long Island (1999) DVD

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.