Loss Of The Soul

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“Loss of the Soul”, subtitled ‘Young Girl Encounters the Young C. G. Jung—Dialogue without a Couch’ is the second work set in the environment of the human psyche. Similar to “PD” it focuses on pathogenic events, set within the confines of one’s mind. In the (image) background, the meaninglessness and insignificance of life plays a decisive role for those affected. For Jung, it is the “loss of soul” that is the problem of the modern world (he expressed this as early as the 1960s). According to Jung, everyone ultimately suffers from the fact that they have lost what living religions have always given their believers.

Below the unhappy looking face of the young woman in the center of the picture is a section of a wide country side cut through by a narrow country road that leads to nowhere. At the same height as the woman’s face and yet somewhat in the background, C. G. Jung accompanies the scene as an interpreter and symbol of the psychological situation.