Here are Marie Louise von Franz’s last comments on the end of the story of Amur and Psyche, from which we learn more important things about the development of the soul and the embodiment of love on Earth. “In this ultimate, tragic moment, Eros comes down from Olympus and wakes Psyche, and, with the help […]
And this is the fourth and final task Venus gives Psyche to atone for her sin – to fetch a box of beauty cream from Persephone, queen of the underworld. Unlike the previous three tasks (sorting a pile of seeds, fetching a golden wave from the wild sun rams, and fetching water from the icy […]
After Psyche’s first task, which is to sort through a large pile of seeds, and the second task, which is to bring a wave of wild sun rams, comes the third task, which is to bring water from the icy waterfall of the River Styx that separates the earth from the underworld. What our soul […]
Psyche’s first task was to sort through a huge pile of seeds, and she tackled this ordeal with the help of the ants. I recall that Marie Louise von Franz interpreted this as help from the unconscious that comes when we are true to ourselves. After the first task comes the second, which teaches our […]
At last it is my turn to present how Marie-Louise von Franz interprets the various tasks Psyche receives from Venus in order to win back her beloved. I begin with her psychological interpretation of the first task, the sorting of the pile of seeds (a motif found in many fairy tales), what the ants symbolize, […]
This is the next part of Marie Franz’s analysis of the story of Amour and Psyche, told by Apuleius in his book The Golden Ass. The previous parts are: Marie Franz on the duality “romance – banality” in love Marie Franz: The incarnation of Venus is the embodiment of the god from the feminine side […]
Marie Franz’s text with the psychological interpretation of the story of Amur/Eros and Psyche (see the article on “The Incarnation of Venus“) continues with an analysis of the correlation between Eros and the archetype of the“eternal child“, the so-called Puer Aeternus. For Eros is Puer Aeternus, and knowing this correlation helps tremendously if we want […]
After the articles on the spiritual dimension of love and the planet Venus, presenting the views of Liz Green and Alan Oaken, here is what Marie Louise von Franz has written on this very important topic, adding new and very important aspects to it. To this end, I would like to recall the nature of […]
Love, with its passion and pain, becomes an urge toward individuation.That is why there is no genuine process of individuation without the experience of love —for love both torments and purifies the soul.”— Marie-Louise von Franz Below is an excerpt from Marie-Louise von Franz’s book The Golden Ass of Apuleius: The Liberation of the Feminine […]
