Archetypal Experiences Surrounding Death
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Marie-Louise von Franz’s 1978 Panarion Conference lecture on what dreams reveal about death: the unconscious treats death as part of individuation, and dreams of the dying point to a continuity between psyche and matter. Later expanded in her book On Dreams and Death.
Marie-Louise von Franz
Marie-Louise von Franz (1915–1998) was a Swiss Jungian analyst and scholar, and Jung's closest collaborator. Born in Munich, she met Jung in 1933 at eighteen and worked with him for nearly thirty years, especially on alchemy, translating Greek and Latin texts for his late works. She held a doctorate in classical philology and helped found the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich in 1948. Her many books cover fairy tales, alchemy, dreams, number and time, and psyche and matter, among them Number and Time (1970), Alchemy (1980) and On Dreams and Death (1984).
Parts
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Part 1: Death and Individuation in Dreams, Part 1
0:56:15
First part of Marie-Louise von Franz's 1978 Panarion lecture. She argues that the unconscious is preoccupied with death because death belongs to individuation, and supports this with dreams, including dreams of people shortly before they died, amplified with Egyptian mythology and alchemy.
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Part 2: Psyche, Matter and Death, Part 2
0:44:40
Second part of the lecture. Von Franz continues with dream material and, in the last twenty minutes, turns to how psyche and matter interpenetrate, using dreams (including her own) and the black hole as an analogy, and citing Jung's letter to Smythies on the psyche's 'unextended intensity'.