Aspects of the Masculine

To understand what C. G. Jung means by “the masculine” is to gain access to
the ground of his entire approach to psychology, for his psychology, as he
liked to admit, was his “personal confession”—the confession of a man
seeking to understand human psychology in the patriarchal context of a
private practice in a western European country in the first half of the twentieth
century. Not even the demonstrable universality of the archetypal world that
he uncovered in this endeavor could eliminate the human standpoint of the
pioneer, who remained a man telling us what his experience had been.
Therefore the present collection of excerpts from his writings affords an
opportunity to discover what Jung himself understood of the contribution that
gender made to his “personal equation,” a chance to look at the lens of the
telescope through which he made his famous and far-reaching observations of
the major psychological constellations.