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In this episode:
I look at the image of the whale as a symbol of both Jung's notion of the Self, as well as the numinous experience of the divine mystery: the mysterium tremendum et fascinans. 

Sources for quotes and more:

  1. 'Moby-Dick' by Herman Melville (Etymology; Extracts; Chapter 32: Cetology; Chapter 36: The Quarter-Deck; Chapter 41: Moby Dick; Chapter 42: The Whiteness of the Whale; Chapter 55: Monstrous Pictures of Whales; Chapter 85: The Fountain; Chapter 86: The Tail; Chapter 104: The Fossil Whale; Chapter 105: Does the Whale’s Magnitude Diminish? – Will He Perish?)
  2. 'Melville’s Moby-Dick: A Jungian Commentary' by Edward Edinger   
  3. S4, Ep. 2: Outcasts of the Spirit
  4. 'Psychology and Alchemy' by C.G. Jung in Collected Works, vol. 12
  5. 'Two Essays on Analytical Psychology' by C.G. Jung, in Collected Works, vol. 7
  6. 'Religious but Not Religious' by Jason Smith
  7. 'Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self' by C.G. Jung in Collected Works, vol. 9ii
  8. Psalm 139: 6-9, Book of Common Prayer, 1979
  9. Exodus 33:18-23, NRSV
  10. Hebrews 10:31, NRSV
  11. Isaiah 55:8, NRSV
  12. 'The Idea of the Holy' by Rudolf Otto
  13. S1, Ep. 22: The Idea of the Holy
  14. S1, Ep. 23: Approaching the Numinous
  15. 'Anatomy of the Psyche' by Edward Edinger
  16. 'Psychology and Religion' by C.G. Jung in Collected Works, vol. 11
  17. Symbols in an Individual Analysis from 'Man and His Symbols' by Jolande Jacobi
  18. The Holy Longing, poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  19. 'Psychology and Literature' by C.G. Jung in Collected Works, vol. 15

Music:
"Dreaming Days," "Slow Vibing," and "The Return" by Ketsa are licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0


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