"He, who saw the deep" – Gilgamesh and C.G. Jung - How to Find One’s Own Myth with Andreas Schweizer, PhD

The Epic of Gilgamesh as one of the greatest and certainly oldest masterpiece of world literature has always fascinated Jung. He first mentioned Gilgamesh in his 1911 work Transformation and Symbols of the Libido. However, he asked himself, “What is the myth I am living?” To answer this question Jung first had to destroy “the hero ideal of [his] efficiency”. His imaginations about the bull-man Izdubar (Gilgamesh), as recorded in The Red Book, culminate in the hero’s transformation into the inner god of the individual. This heralds the dawn of a new god image in the Age of Aquarius.