The Collected Works of C. G. Jung
Editors: Read H, Fordham M, Adler G, and McGuire W.
Bollingen Series XX, Princeton University Press
Volumes cited: / 5 / 6-9i / 10-13 / 14-15, 17-18 / ALSO: Dream Seminar / Interviews
Paragraph numbers and figures are indicated, with page numbers in parentheses.
This index includes crossreferences to "Wotan"
Backslash \ indicates "relates to"
par. 421 (p.275) -- fig. 28: Wotan on eight-legged horse Sleipnir; Wotan as Drosselbart is half-man, half-horse
par. 422 (p.278) -- horse \ wind; Wotan galloping in storm chasing the wind- bride
par. 555 (p.358) -- Siegfried's hero's entry; Siegfried's feelings for Bruenhilde; brother-sister incest; Sieglinde as "human mother", Br. as "spirit mother"; Br. banished by Wotan for complicity (approval) of incest; Siegfried \ Horus; Sieglinde's "night-sea journey to the east";
par. 556 (p.358) -- broken sword \ dismemberment
par. 559 (p.359) -- Wotan \ persecution motif
par. 560 (p.360) -- Bruenhilde "split off" from Wotan, a feminine emmisary for a martial god "somewhat remarkable"
par. 563 (p.360) -- Br. as anima attached to masculine deity, a dissociation; Wotan unconscious of his own femininity
par. 564 (p.361) -- Wotan's lament for Br.
par. 565 (p.361) -- Br. support of Siegmund; the incest a projection: Wotan's entering "into his own daughter to rejuvenate himself
par. 566 (p.361) -- Sieglinde's death; Mime of "a race who has abjured love"
par. 567 (p.362) -- Br. asleep in ring of fire; Mime a masculine representative of the Terrible Mother; Siegfried drawn away by longing for Mother-imago
par. 568 (p.363) -- the song of the Forest Bird \ mother
par. 569 (p.363) -- gold \ "treasure hard to attain" \ the "mother" \ unconscious; "magic cap" (tarnhelm) changes Alberich into serpent \ motif of rejuvenation; dragon's blood \ understanding nature.
par. 598-600 (385-6) -- Wotan (Wanderer) and Erda \ "fatal charm of the mother"
par. 602-11 (p.387-391) -- Siegfried's encounter with Bruenhilde, evokes mother; Br. \ mother-sister-wife anima archetype; Siegfried as archetypal hero
appendix (p.461) -- Siegfried's feelings for Br. \ "burning need for someone who resembles himself"
par. 105 (p.70) -- "The breakdown of the harmonious cooperation of psychic forces in instinctive life is like an ever open and never healing wound, an Amfortas [in Parsifal] wound."
par. 114 (p.76) -- [Parsifal] restoration of missing spear and healing of the wound \ wholeness
par. 324 (p.192) -- "the solution of the problem [of types and reconciling opposites] ... in Wagner's Parsifal ... is religious.
par. 371-4 (p.219-220) -- symbolism in Parsifal
par. 401 (p.237) -- vitality of Grail symbol [in Parsifal] "is still not exhausted today, even though our age and our psychology strive unceasingly for its dissolution."
par. 408 (p.241) -- "... Wagner, the prophet of love ..." and Nietzsche
par. 426n (p.252) -- W. as example of artistic gift in expressing symbols of the unconscious
par. 43 (p.34) -- contrasting Nietzsche and Wagner as opposite types; "Nietzsche had Wagner in himself and that is why he envied him Parsifal."
par. 217 (p.135) -- "archaic conception of nature-daemon, something like Wotan" \ wind \ spirit
par. 306 (p.193) -- "whoever builds up too good a persona for himself naturally has to pay for it with irritability," e.g. Wagner
par. 162 (p.80) -- Nietzsche "cannot forgive" Wagner for Parsifal
par. 50 (p.24) -- "Our unconscious ... hides living water, spirit that has become nature ...": Quote, the Voeluspa [What murmurs Wotan over Mimir's head?] \ "a secret unrest gnaws at the roots of our being" [because of loss of symbol]
par. 413 (p.226) -- Wotan sacrifices eye at spring of Mimir
par. 442 (p.246) -- Wotan \ hunter \ wind \ spirit \ Mercury, etc.
par. 446 (p.248) -- Wotan sometimes \ devil aspect
par. 597 (p.339) -- Wotan \ ravens
par. 174 (p.85) -- enthronement of goddess of reason in Notre Dame like the hewing down of Wotan's oak by Christian missionaries
par. 371-99 (pp.179-193) -- text of the paper "Wotan" first
published in Mar 1936, analysis of "Wotan the wanderer on the move"
in Nazi Germany:
"But what is more than curious - indeed piquant to a degree - is that an ancient god of storm and frenzy, the long quiescent Wotan, should awake, like an extinct volcano, to new activity, in a civilized country that had long been supposed to have outgrown the Middle Ages." (par.373)
par. 400 (p.194) -- Wotan: "the myth has been fulfilled and the greater part of Europe lies in ruins." (From the paper "After the Catastrophe")
par.432 (p.212) -- "the suet-and-syrup of Wagner"
par. 435-6 (p.213-214) -- Nietzsche and Wagner "prophetically responding to the schism of the Christian world"
par. 701 (p.371) -- "Wotan's host ...still roams about our Swiss cantons."
par. 44 (p.28) -- Wotan, "Teutonic cousin of Dionysus. "I [Jung]
could clearly see the Wotanistic revolution coming on" [1918]
par. 58 (p.36) --in patient's dream,Wagner's Fire Music
par. 293 (p.194) -- dream: organ playing (?) Wagner's Fire Music (Loki motif)
par. 297 (p.196) -- dream interpretation: fire \ transformation, wholeness
par. 70 (p.47) -- "The Amfortas wound [in Parsifal] ... in the Germanic man [is] still not healed."
par. 246 (p.198) -- Mercurius \ Wotan, "demon of forest and storm"
par. 339 (p.252) -- curious parallel: salt, "incurable wound" \ Kundry's wounding of Amfortas (Parsifal)
par. 375 (p.281) -- (Parsifal) sick king \ transformation mystery of the Mass
par. 753 (p.529) -- "the alchemist" unaware of his participation in the process is like the foolish Parsifal
par. 754 (p.530) -- representation of archetypes a basic feature of Wagner's music
par. 134 (p.86) -- "The personal psychology of the artist may explain many aspects of his work, but not the work itself." e.g. Wagner and "a certain pathological effeminancy."
par. 142 (p.91) -- such a vision [beauty, or revelation] found in Wagner's Ring, Tristan, and Parsifal.
par. 143 (p.91) -- problem of acceptance of visionary literature [e.g. Dante, Wagner] unless disguised "in a cloak of historical or mythical events"
par. 151 (p.97) -- "Wagner needs the whole saga of Nordic myth" to express the paradoxes of his vision
par. 207 -- one way (of two) in which consciousness arises is in state of continued tension, as when Parsifal realizes the meaning of Amfortas' wound.
par. 261 (p.118) -- bowl, dagger in dream / Grail, spear in Parsifal, which belong together
par. 263 (p.120) -- central motif of Parsifal, restoring spear to Grail
par. 366 (p.159) -- Flying Dutchman example of recurring motif in women's dreams
par. 1281 (p.546) -- Rider Haggard, contemporary of Wagner
par. 1684 (p.742) -- myth of Holy Grail came to life in Parsifal
par. 1694 (p.749) -- compare two ravens of Mephisto in Faust with Wotan
par. 1696 (p.749) -- compare wild host of Mephisto with Wotan
William McGuire, editor
Bollingen Series XCIX, Princeton University Press, 1984
[citing page numbers]
71 -- ancient invocation to Wotan (Odin) still recited but with name of of Jesus
74-75 -- Wagner a great artist but "nailed to the cross" of persona
283 -- Wagner unaware that Siegfried represented his own shadow
295 -- the immature Parsifal was turned away from the Grail
326 -- Odin [Wotan] hanging on a tree pierced with a spear
351 -- Odin [Wotan] reborn after ordeal
554 -- Parsifal unaware of his feminine aspect
611 -- "We identify with our one differentiated function...", e.g. Wagner
625n -- Edouard Schure (Alsatian writer) a friend of Wagner and Rudolph Steiner
682 -- masculine seeking advice of feminine, e.g. in the Ring, Wotan and Erda (Earth)
William McGuire and R.F.C. Hull, editors
Bollingen Series XCVII, Princeton University Press, 1984
[citing page numbers]
118 -- Nazi storm troopers "a cult of Wotan" (god of wind and storm)
462-3 -- prediction of World War I (C.W. 10) from frequently encountering Wotan in patient's dreams
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