Barbara Hannah > Quotes

“The first thing is to be alone, and as free as possible from being disturbed. Then one must sit down and concentrate on seeing and hearing whatever comes up from the unconscious. When this is accomplished, and often it is far from easy, the image must be prevented from sinking back again into the unconscious, by drawing, painting or writing down whatever has been seen or heard. Sometimes it is possible to express it best by movement or dancing. Some people cannot get into touch with the unconscious directly. An indirect approach that often reveals the unconscious particularly well, is to write stories, apparently about other people. Such stories invariably reveal the parts of the storyteller’s own psyche of which he or she is completely unconscious. ...

In every case, the goal is to get into touch with the unconscious, and that entails giving it an opportunity to express itself in some way or other.”
― Barbara Hannah, Encounters with the Soul: Active Imagination As Developed by C.G. Jung

“magic procedure. And instinct is usually represented by an animal - a dog, a horse, an elephant for instance. In this case,”
― Barbara Hannah, The Archetypal Symbolism of Animals: Lectures Given at the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich, 1954-1958

“to live.”
― Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and Work