Some archetypal foundations of the notion of time – CD 1 of 2

This is CD 1 of 2, total run time 59'05", of a lecture presented by Marie-Louise von Franz, PhD at the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles. As Dr. Von Franz finished her book "Number and Time," she felt that more had to be said about the difficult problem of time itself and investigates in detail the archetypal foundation of the concept of time as it appears in Aztec mythology and in the I Ching. Both conceptions point in the direction of a psychic time born out of a sort of procession of divine figures. This eternal revolution of archetypal images also appears in Western astrology and antique ideas about time. The phenomenon of appearance and disappearance of archetypal images further seems to lend itself to a mathematical lawfulness. Von Franz stresses that we are far from having sounded the depth of this dynamic aspect of time, yet the problem has increasingly come to the fore over the centuries. In the last part, she relates the psychic, qualitative, aspect of time to Jung's ideas on the dynamic aspect of the self exposed in "Aion", and also elucidates its relation to the principle of synchronicity.