It may help us to escape all criticism; we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. is full of problems; we cannot even think of it except in terms of problems. • “I am therefore inclined to assume that the real root of alchemy is to be sought less in philosophical doctrines than in the projections of individual investigators. But in so far as the total personality, on account of its unconscious component, can be only in part conscious, the concept of the self is, in part, only potentially empirical and is to that extent a postulate. This is desecration, necrophilia. Jung (Psychological Reflections: A New Anthology of His Writings 1905-61), • “I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike universe especially set up for it.” — C.G. What mankind has needed may eventually be needed by the individual too. ~”The Practical Use of Dream Analysis” (1934). ], • Instincts in their original strength can render social adaptation almost impossible. Notice what the ancients said in images: the word is a creative act. Ideas spring from something greater than the personal human being. There was one with me. View all posts by Mr. Purrington. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through […]. 486, 16 November 1946. P. 764, When we say that it is egoistic or “morbid” to be preoccupied with oneself; one’s own company is the worst, “it makes you melancholy” – such are the glowing testimonials accorded to our human make-up. The real nature of matter was unknown to the alchemist: he knew it only in hints. The archetypes, as unfiltered psychic experience, appear sometimes in their most primitive and naive forms (in dreams), sometimes in a considerably more complex form due to the operation of conscious elaboration (in myths). Her excellent education had provided her with a weapon ideally suited to this purpose, namely a highly polished Cartesian rationalism with an impeccably “geometrical” idea of reality. ], • These images are naturally only anticipations of a wholeness which is, in principle, always just beyond our reach. (3) Consciousness constitutes the momentary process of adaptation, whereas the unconscious contains not only all the forgotten material of the individual’s own past, but all the inherited behavior traces constituting the structure of the mind [i.e., archetypes]. For the value of the one is the negation of value for the other. Soul: “You know what the liver means, and you ought to perform the healing act with it.” ], • In the course of development following puberty, consciousness is confronted with affective tendencies, impulses, and fantasies which for a variety of reasons it is not willing or not able to assimilate. But if you look out greedily for all that you could still live, then nothing is great enough for your pleasure, and the smallest things that continue to surround you are no longer a joy. That can be the historic future.” — C.G. What I say here can be seen as sickness, but no one can see it as sickness more than I do. P. 150 In CW 8: The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche. For the completion of life a balance with death is fitting. par. But when it appears as an archetype, one encounters the same difficulties as with anima and animus. On the contrary, the neurotic of today is only too prone to regard a product that may actually be full of significance as a mere “symptom. P.394 *The years 1935-1945, • Nothing is so apt to challenge our self-awareness and alertness as being at war with oneself. 86, • No amount of skepticism and criticism has yet enabled me to regard dreams as negligible occurrences. Through the withdrawal of projections, conscious knowledge slowly developed. ~Carl Jung; Red Book. Archetypes are, by definition, factors and motifs that arrange the psychic elements into certain images, characterized as archetypal, but in such a way that they can be recognized only from the effects they produce. [Definitions, CW 6, par. Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality. My gorge rises-tears burst from my eyes cold sweat covers my brow-a dull sweet taste of blood-I swallow with desperate efforts-it is impossible-once again and once again- I almost faint-it is done. the individual becomes neurotic later, and can be cured only by developing the attitude consonant with his nature. Here we must ask: Have I any religious experience and immediate relation to God, and hence that certainty which will keep me, as an individual, from dissolving in the crowd? This leads ultimately to a dissociation: on the one hand, ego-consciousness makes convulsive efforts to shake off an invisible opponent (if it does not suspect its next-door neighbor of being the devil! Then the conflict between the two types begins. This craving is always something comparatively simple and elementary, which can hide itself under manifold disguises…. ~”The Psychological Foundations of Belief in Spirits” (1920). In CW 7: Two Essays on Analytical Psychology P. 5, All that is not encompassed by our knowledge, so that we are not in a position to make any statements about its total nature. But this is permissible only when the dream really is a mythological one and makes use of collective symbols. In CW 13: Alchemical Studies. Among these contents the relation to the parent of opposite sex plays an important part, i.e., the relation of son to mother, daughter to father, and also that of brother to sister. P.508, Future generations dare not find themselves okay unless governed over by the bureaucracy, a stubborn church, or the “good” state But marriage means a home. She becomes inferior, thus providing her husband with the welcome proof that it is not he, the hero, who is inferior in private, but his wife. Long experience has taught me not to know anything in advance and not to know better, but to let the unconscious take precedence. But if you pay close attention, you will see that the most masculine man has a feminine soul, and the most feminine woman has a masculine soul. [“The Psychology of the Transference,” CW 16, par. But because the inner world is dark and invisible to the extraverted consciousness, and because a man is all the less capable of conceiving his weaknesses the more he is identified with the persona, the persona’s counterpart, the anima, remains completely in the dark and is at once projected, so that our hero comes under the heel of his wife’s slipper. ~”Psychotherapy and a Philosophy of Life” (1943). And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place. pg. Underneath all the padding one would find a very pitiable little creature. If this results in a considerable increase of her power, she will acquit herself none too well. These questions are not arbitrary inasmuch as they can be applied to every psychic activity. Carl Gustav Jung, The Symbolic Life, Collected Works 18, par.1400, • The immunity of the nation depends entirely upon the existence of a leading minority immune to the evil and capable of combating the powerful suggestive effect. Only when mirrored in our picture of the world can we see ourselves in the round? . But forethought leads to Salome. A man should live as a man and a woman as a woman. If, on the other hand, the activation is the result of psychological processes in the unconscious of the people, the individual may feel threatened or at any rate disoriented, but the resultant state is not pathological, at least so far as the individual is concerned. There are psychological compensations that seem to be very remote from the problem on hand. ~”The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man” (1933). When, therefore, an object-imago appears in an unconscious product, it is not on that account the image of a real object; it is far more likely that we are dealing with a subjective functional complex. “Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype” (1939). 32, • As individuals we are not completely unique, but are like all other men. What stays in balance is correct, what disturbs balance is incorrect. ], • Although “wholeness” seems at first sight to be nothing but an abstract idea (like anima and animus), it is nevertheless empirical in so far as it is anticipated by the psyche in the form of spontaneous or autonomous symbols. The therapeutic process takes the unconscious archetypes into account in two ways: they are made as fully conscious as possible, and then synthesized with the conscious by recognition and acceptance. . It is even older and more conservative than the body’s form. The only certain thing is that both parties will be changed. • Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Honor the darkness as the light, and you will illumine your darkness. • Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. ], • Instinct is not an isolated thing, nor can it be isolated in practice. In CW 16: The Practice of Psychotherapy. [Definitions,” CW 6, par. P.367, • There are analysts who believe that they can get along without self-analysis. Jung Yet the genius is the healer of his time, because anything he reveals of eternal truth is healing. There is only one atonement: abase yourself and eat.” We need the life of eternity. I am addressing myself to those many people for whom the light has gone out, the mystery has faded, and God is dead. In Enlightenment teachings, dualistic concepts that are assumed to be in opposition are intuitively united, leading to non-dual states of awareness. [On the Nature of the Psyche,” CW 8, par. of the fundamental principles and symbols. In CW 4: Freud and Psychoanalysis. Therefore we have to conclude that what we call psychological motives are in a way identical with star positions . For the patient, therefore, the analyst has the character of an indispensable figure absolutely necessary for life. ~Aion (1951). A certain kind of behavior is forced on them by the world, and professional people endeavor to come up to these expectations. Hence the ever-widening split between conscious and unconscious increases the danger of psychic infection and mass psychosis. Their presence gives the world of the child and the dreamer its anthropomorphic stamp. ], • If thinking fails as the adapted function, because it is dealing with a situation to which one can adapt only by feeling, then the unconscious material activated by regression will contain the missing feeling function, although still in embryonic form, archaic and undeveloped. One needs death to be able to harvest the fruit. P.131, • It is a frightening thought that man also has a shadow side to him, consisting not just of little weaknesses and foibles, but of a positively demonic dynamism. • I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way. wicked”; and then analyse carefully and with the utmost honesty all your reactions, feelings, and thoughts. The rhizome remains. Instinct is nature and seeks to perpetuate nature, whereas consciousness can only seek culture or its denial. • The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. I: “So you declare. Some have their reason in thinking, others in feeling. 580, • The dream shows the inner truth and reality of the patient as it really is: not as I conjecture it to be, and not as he would like it to be, but as it is. p. 340. In CW 8: The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche. . ~The Psychology of the Unconscious, • Every archetype is capable of endless development and differentiation. Am I your master?” I: “Why should I do this? • Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. • The view that dreams are merely the imaginary fulfillments of repressed wishes is hopelessly out of date. the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element. The mind deserves to be taken as a phenomenon in its own right; there are no grounds at all for regarding it as a mere epiphenomenon, dependent though it may be on the functioning of the brain. Jung, • “When you succeed in awakening the Kundalini, so that it starts to move out of its mere potentiality, you necessarily start a world which is totally different from our world. I may allow myself only one criterion for the result of my labors: does it work? In CW 16: The Practice of Psychotherapy. It is high time we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. In CW 8: The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche. And if this were already the greatest bitterness that could happen to me, I would have to confess to this experience and recognize the God in it. In CW 8: The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche. For the present we have merely more or less plausible opinions that defy reconciliation. He is mockery and hate and anger, since this is also a way of life. The more manly you are, the more remote from you is what woman really is, since the feminine in yourself is alien and contemptuous. In CW 10: Civilization in Transition. Soul: “Step nearer and you will see that the body of the child has been cut open; take out the liver.” pg. ], • This spirit is an autonomous psychic happening, a hush that follows the storm, a reconciling light in the darkness of man’s mind, secretly bringing order into the chaos of his soul. P. 845, • Archetypes were, and still are, living psychic forces that demand to be taken seriously, and they have a strange way of making sure of their effect. Primitive man’s perception of objects is conditioned only partly by the objective behavior of the things themselves, whereas a much greater part is often played by intrapsychic facts which are not related to the external objects except by way of projection. This little game of illusion is often taken to be the whole meaning of life. In CW 7: Two Essays on Analytical Psychology P. 201, Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. . be demonstrated experimentally by the association tests, which are very useful for finding out things that people cannot or will not speak about. These need certain modifications, because, in their original form, they are suited to an archaic mode of life, but not to the demands of a specifically differentiated (modern) environment. It is as though each of us was born with a limited store of energy. You are abandoned without mercy to woman so long as you cannot fend off mockery with all your masculinity. P.770, The office I hold is certainly my special activity; but it is also a collective factor that has come into existence historically through the co-operation of many people and whose dignity rests solely on collective approval. propensity to superstition and prejudice – in short, all those qualities which make possession possible. While reflecting an indisputable aspect of reality, it can falsify the actual truth in a most misleading way. (Das Geheimnis der Goldenen Blute) 1929. I am not speaking of a secret personally guarded by someone, with a content known to its possessor, but of a mystery, a matter or circumstance which is “secret,” i.e., known only through vague hints but essentially unknown. 832.]. – “Mind and Earth” (1927). In CW 11: Psychology and Religion: West and East. par. ~C.G. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. These phenomena can . The one is the shadow of the other. par. – “What India Can Teach Us” (1939). Then, on the fourth day, his wife came to consult me…. I turned round and saw that it was a fairly large flying insect that was knocking against the window from outside in the obvious effort to get into the dark room. Those who write superficial and cheap books about the subject are either unconscious of the far-reaching effects of analytical treatment or else ignorant of the real nature of the human soul. . ~”General Aspects of Dream Psychology” (1916). This little game of illusion is often taken to be the whole meaning of life. And that may be well and good. Primitive man is not much interested in objective explanations of the obvious, but he has an imperative need or rather, his unconscious mind has an irresistible urge-to assimilate all outer sense experiences to inner, psychic events. We shall never get the better of him, or only to our own hurt. How often have you experienced it, that the truth has been condemned? You would like to hear of him who was not darkened by the shadow of earth, but illuminated it, who saw the thoughts of all, and whose thoughts no one guessed, who possessed in himself the meaning of all things, and whose meaning no thing could express.~ Carl Jung; Red Book. . It is a struggle that cannot be abolished by rational means. [“Definitions,” CW 6, par. * Finding a balance between the head and heart in our Creative Process. ], • The suitably trained analyst mediates the transcendent function for the patient, i.e., helps him to bring conscious and unconscious together and so arrive at a new attitude. There the solidification overtakes you. The undeniable reality of the one must be matched by the compelling power of the other. All the mythologised processes of nature, such as summer and winter, the phases of the moon, the rainy seasons, and so forth, are in no sense allegories of these objective occurrences; rather they are symbolic expressions of the inner, unconscious drama of the mind which becomes accessible to man’s consciousness by way of projection – that is, mirrored in the events of nature. . After several fruitless attempts to sweeten her rationalism with a somewhat more human understanding, I had to confine myself to the hope that something unexpected and irrational would turn up, something that burst the intellectual retort into which she had sealed herself. The patient must be alone if he is to find out what it is that supports him when he can no longer support himself. ], • The will is a psychological phenomenon that owes its existence to culture and moral education, but is largely lacking in the primitive mentality. ~”The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man” (1933). In CW 8: The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche. . In CW 7: Two Essays on Analytical Psychology. Oh, mother stone, I love you, I lie snuggled up against your warm body, your late child. He would then have had to recognize not only himself as the equivalent of Christ, but Christ as a symbol of the self. All consciousness separates; but in dreams we put on the likeness of that more universal, truer, more eternal man dwelling in the darkness of primordial night. One cannot simply deny the existence of these endeavors nor condemn then as indefensible; they exist, and probably have adequate grounds for their existence. We thus give expression to psychological truths, and even more to physiological facts. All these are so many rationalized substitutes for mythology, and their unnaturalness does more harm than good. If it is a dream of this kind, it will as a rule contains mythological motifs, combinations of ideas or images which can be found in the myths of one’s own folk or in those of other races. [Ibid. ~Carl Jung; Red Book. . P.105, Not only in the psychic man is there something unknown, but also in the physical. . P. 331, Faking can be understood as outlets of unconscious psychic forces ~Answer to Job, R. Hull, trans. This man once went down with a serious physical illness, and I expected it would be very difficult to treat him. [“Some Crucial Points in Psychoanalysis,” CW 4, par. ~Carl Jung; Red Book. . . P.386, The hero’s main feat is to overcome the monster of darkness: it is the long-hoped-for and expected triumph of consciousness over the unconscious. P 141, • The union of opposites on a higher level of consciousness is not a rational thing, nor is it a matter of will; it is a process of psychic development that expresses itself in symbols. pg. – Aion (1951) CW 9, Part II: P.66, The young British man can have only an incomplete understanding of himself and others . Psychological Types (1921). This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious man within us who is changing.

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