Want to know your future? Try my free online Rune Readings! But Jung felt that Philemon was real – yet somehow dead, and somehow “talking” to Jung – to Jung’s mind.

Psychologically, Philemon represented superior insight.” To anyone else, Philemon might be a figment of Jung’s imagination, or evidence of his madness. In my fantasies I held conversations with him, and he said things which I had not consciously thought. Philemon represented a force that was not myself. Jung observed that “Philemon and other figures of my fantasies brought home to me the crucial insight that there are things in the psyche which I do not produce, but which produce themselves and have their own life. Jung had “spirit guides”, one of whom was named “Philemon”.

Jung felt that psychotherapy was too narrow in focus – and his ideas were based on personal experience. Both originally worked together, but Jung broke with Freud in 1911. Freud and Jung are considered to be the instrumental characters of defining psychotherapy.

Why Watkins was chosen as the publisher however becomes clear when we know that Jung had received this document via automatic writing – something most psychiatrists would push towards the lunatic fringe… but not Jung. The text is purportedly by “Basilides of Alexandria” and is a Gnostic text – a religious document, largely Christian in nature. Watkins was later to become Jung’s publisher, bringing out the private 1925 edition of Jung’s “VII Sermones ad Mortuos”.įor a well-known psychiatrist to chose a hermetic bookstore as the publisher of a book might seem odd, and it is. One of its many notorious visitors was Carl Gustav Jung, the famous Swiss psychiatrist who would, together with Freud, define the field. Watkins’ bookstore in Cecil Court, just off Charing Cross Road in London, was founded in 1891 by John Watkins, and is still London’s premier hermetic bookstore. But what is less known, is that Jung was more of an alchemist and Gnostic, then a psychotherapist. Feature Articles – The automatic writings of JungĬarl Gustav Jung is notorious for being more “liberal” in his psychology than his friend Freud.

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