ABSTRACT

This chapter presents how Jung dealt with his visions and discoveries as a scientific experiment and how he intended to use the results to help his patients. These passages fit in Ellenberger’s postulation about three possible ways of how experiential aspects in the lives of scientists may impinge upon their theorising. It describes how Jung developed his new method: firstly, experiencing the fantasies and taking notes from his visions and conversations with the inner figures; secondly, elaborating these experiences and explaining the significance of each episode, combining it with lyrical elaborations and interpretations. And finally, after 1915, beginning to express the contents in a visual form through his paintings.