Carl Jung was very interested in the Mandala. According to Jung the mandala represented the the unification of body, mind and spirit in the person who created it, a visual manifestation of the process of "individuation". Frued, I imagine, would have found such an exorcise frivilous and rooted in an obsession with the "mother".
As far as I know, Carl Jung painted this mandala, which is why it's been attributed to him. In "The Secret of the Golden Flower" he wrote of this mandala: "In the centre, the white light, shining in the firmament; in the first circle, protoplastmic life-seeds; in the second, rotating cosmic principles which contain the four primary colours; in the third and fourth, creative forces working inward and outward. At the cardinal points, the masculine and feminine souls, both again divided into light and dark."
dana
13-Aug-2004 11:41
I would be very interested to know why this mandala
has been attributed to Carl Jung, who studied under
Freud.
