Everyone whose attitude is introverted…
” Everyone whose attitude is introverted thinks, feels, and acts in a way that clearly demonstrates that the subject is the prime motivating factor and that the object is of secondary importance. ”...
View ArticleThe four functions are somewhat like the four points on a compass..
“In this way we can orient ourselves with respect to the immediate world as completely as when we locate a place geographically by latitude and longitude. The four functions are somewhat like the four...
View ArticleFantasy is the mother of all possibilities…
William Bourguereau, Cupid and Psyche The psyche creates reality every day. The only expression I can use for this activity is fantasy. Fantasy is just as much feeling as thinking, as much intuition as...
View ArticleThe great problems of life — sexuality, of course, among others — are always...
The Temptation of Adam and Eve Michelangelo Sistine Chapel The great problems of life — sexuality, of course, among others — are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious....
View ArticleThe relative depreciation of the real woman is thus compensated by demonic...
Insofar as the soul-relation to women was expressed in a collective virgin-worship, the image of woman lost a value to which human nature has a certain natural claim. This value, for which only...
View ArticleIn a certain sense man loves woman less as a result of her relative...
Woodcut circa 1580 Witches being burned at the stake on the market place in Guernsey In a certain sense man loves woman less as a result of her relative depreciation—hence she appears as a persecutor,...
View ArticleThe introverted standpoint is one which sets the ego and the subjective...
But in general one could say that the introverted standpoint is one which sets the ego and the subjective psychological process above the object and the objective process, or at any rate seeks to hold...
View ArticleCarl Jung: “The self designates the whole range of psychic phenomena in man.”
Sombrero Galaxy Hubble Telescope As an empirical concept, the self designates the whole range of psychic phenomena in man. It expresses the unity of the personality as a whole. It is a transcendental...
View ArticleCarl Jung: “By ego I understand a complex of ideas which constitutes the...
By ego I understand a complex of ideas which constitutes the centre of my field of consciousness and appears to possess a high degree of continuity and identity. Hence I also speak of an ego-complex…...
View ArticleCarl Jung: “The thing that harms is also the thing that heals.”
from the Book of Lambspring” The thing that harms is also the thing that heals. Such a paradox is true and permissible only when one sees the opposites as united on a higher plane . . . Psychological...
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