Nothing happens in which you are not entangled

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Carl Jung on “Gossip.”

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Marie Louise von Franz on Alchemy

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As a doctor it is my task to help the patient to cope with life.

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Frith Luton Images

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The Soul is a Living and Self-Existing Being.

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Carl Jung on the “Loss of the Ego.”

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Thus your soul is your own self in the spiritual world

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Wolfgang Pauli: Our talk yesterday on the "synchronicity"

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Wolfgang Pauli: In the first half of my life I was a cold and cynical devil…

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Sonu Shamdasani: Introduction to Analytical Psychology: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1925

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Carl Jung: I think one can only speak out of the torrent of divine images…”

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Carl Jung on the outlook of the Philosopher.

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As a doctor it is my task to help the patient to cope with life.

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E.A. Bennet: He [Jung] mentioned the witch doctor at Bollingen, whose house on the hill we had seen from the boat yesterday.

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Carl Jung: The Animus impersonates the unconscious, as the Anima impersonates it in a man’s case.

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For you are a son of the earth

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The spirit of this time has condemned us to haste

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Carl Jung: “Words” Quotations Anthology from The Red Book

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The "Great and Puzzling Problem" of Symbols…

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Anyone who wants to know the human mind

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Carl Jung and "… A tough and coldblooded extraversion…."

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Carl Jung “Collective Unconscious” – Anthology

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Wolfgang Pauli: I do hope that my questions won’t put you to too much trouble.

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Carl Jung: The psyche creates reality every day.

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Carl Jung on Collective Guilt

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Carl Jung on “Could such a girl….be helped to find her true self?

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Carl Jung; Unless there is a personal religious experience – realising from the inside what it means – nothing happens.

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Those are the people who will carry on my work.

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Carl Jung: Such dreams fade away quickly if they are not written down, and this is no great loss.

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No science will ever replace myth…

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Carl Jung: This is the path of danger.

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Carl Jung on his use of the word “Eros.”

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Carl Jung on “getting a proper understanding of Freud…”

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Carl Jung: The ideas of the moral order and of God belong to the ineradicable substrate of the human soul.

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Carl Jung: Dreams that form logically, morally, or aesthetically satisfying wholes are exceptional.

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Carl Jung on the “Body” – Anthology

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Carl Jung: The pole is the center of a rotating system, which actually represents the mandala.

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Erich Neumann’s dream in which he was an old pilgrim threatened by Nazis.

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The Christian symbol is a living thing

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Carl Jung: In other words: worry about yourself more than about others;…

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Carl Jung: If the superior function is intuition, for example, then the intuitions are directly in the way,

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Carl Jung: You can’t change people to fit a theory.

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Space flights are merely an escape…

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Carl Jung: " As a matter of fact and truth, we are of double gender…"

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Merry Christ’s Mass!!!

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Merry Christ’s Mass!!!

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A Giant in a Child’s Dream

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A Giant in a Child’s Dream

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Carl Jung "Yesterday I had a marvellous dream…"

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Carl Jung: “It is a great consolation to know that one’s included in the prayers of fellow beings.”

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Carl Jung on "Intuition" as a Superior and Inferior Function

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Dr. Jung asked "…did you have always the sense of being in control of your tools?”

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Carl Jung: “It is a great consolation to know that one’s included in the prayers of fellow beings.”

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Carl Jung on "Intuition" as a Superior and Inferior Function

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Carl Jung: The man whose interests are all outside is never satisfied with what is necessary,..

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Carl Jung: Such a dream has always to be understood under two aspects.

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Carl Jung: …if you look long enough into a dark hole, then you perceive what is looking in.

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Carl Jung: At any rate the documentary reports relating to the general projection and assimilation of the Christ-figure are unequivocal.

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Carl Jung: They are the repositories of the secrets of the soul, and this matchless knowledge is set forth in grand symbolical images.

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Carl Jung: Like this irritable beast, he reduced the world to chaos and could only be moved to love in the lap of a pure virgin.

Carl Jung: Like this irritable beast, he reduced the world to chaos and could only be moved to love in the lap of a pure virgin.: The dual aspect of the Father is by no means unknown to religious speculation. This is proved by the allegory of the monoceros, or unicorn, who symbolizes Yahweh’s angry moodiness. Like this …

Carl Jung: Like this irritable beast, he reduced the world to chaos and could only be moved to love in the lap of a pure virgin.

Carl Jung: Like this irritable beast, he reduced the world to chaos and could only be moved to love in the lap of a pure virgin.: The dual aspect of the Father is by no means unknown to religious speculation. This is proved by the allegory of the monoceros, or unicorn, who symbolizes Yahweh’s angry moodiness. Like this …

Carl Jung: Like this irritable beast, he reduced the world to chaos and could only be moved to love in the lap of a pure virgin.

Carl Jung: Like this irritable beast, he reduced the world to chaos and could only be moved to love in the lap of a pure virgin.: The dual aspect of the Father is by no means unknown to religious speculation. This is proved by the allegory of the monoceros, or unicorn, who symbolizes Yahweh’s angry moodiness. Like this …

E.A. Bennet: Mrs. Jung died at 10.30 this morning. C.G. came up to the Niehus’s house to tell me and to say goodbye.

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E.A. Bennet: Mrs. Jung died at 10.30 this morning. C.G. came up to the Niehus’s house to tell me and to say goodbye.

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Carl Jung: The innermost substance is a microcosm, as every star is a microcosm.

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Carl Jung: That is to say, what happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere.

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Carl Jung’s deeply personal expression.

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Carl Jung: A glance at the Scriptures, however, is enough to show us the importance of the devil in the divine drama of redemption.

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Carl Jung: Once the indefinable One unfolds into two, it becomes something definite: the man Jesus, the Son and Logos.

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Carl Jung: Your idea of writing a doctoral thesis about sin is brilliant.

Carl Jung: Your idea of writing a doctoral thesis about sin is brilliant.: C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 To Pastor Fritz Pfaffiin Dear Pastor PfafHin, 9 March 1937 Your idea of writing a doctoral thesis about sin is brilliant. That is something I would defin…

Wolfgang Pauli stops Dream Interpretation with Dr. Jung

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Carl Jung: “…I do not believe that reason can be the supreme law of human behaviour…”

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Some Carl Jung Quotations XII

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Carl Jung on "She."

Carl Jung on "She.": “She” As we assume that behind our image of the external world there is an absolute entity, so necessarily we must assume that behind the perceiving subject there is an entity; and when we s…

Carl Jung on "She."

Carl Jung on "She.": “She” As we assume that behind our image of the external world there is an absolute entity, so necessarily we must assume that behind the perceiving subject there is an entity; and when we s…

Carl Jung on "She."

Carl Jung on "She.": “She” As we assume that behind our image of the external world there is an absolute entity, so necessarily we must assume that behind the perceiving subject there is an entity; and when we s…

Carl Jung: "Complete liberation means death."

Carl Jung: "Complete liberation means death.": C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 To V. Subrahamanya Iyer Dear Sir, 29 August 1938 Thank you for your kind letter which has brought back to me all the happy and beautiful memories of my s…

I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. ~Carl Jung

I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. ~Carl Jung: Memories, Dreams, Reflection “I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, and rapturous. I am all these things at once, and cannot add up the sum. I…

[Carl Jung on Imagination, Subtle Body, Opus]

[Carl Jung on Imagination, Subtle Body, Opus]: Psychology and Alchemy…

Carl Jung and The Work of Redemption, Why the Historicity of Christ is important.

Carl Jung and The Work of Redemption, Why the Historicity of Christ is important.: Psychology and Alchemy (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.12) Now, all these myth-pictures re…

Some Carl Jung Quotations LVII***

Some Carl Jung Quotations LVII***: Jealousy always means that we see someone else doing what we should have done but for ourincapacity or laziness; it is easier to criticize other people. ~Carl Jung, Meetings with Jung, Page 99He [J…

In Norse myth, Nidhogg (“tearer of corpses”) is a monstrous serpent…

In Norse myth, Nidhogg (“tearer of corpses”) is a monstrous serpent…: In Norse myth, Nidhogg (“tearer of corpses”) is a monstrous serpent that gnaws almost perpetually at the d…

[The trickster] is a forerunner of the Savior…

[The trickster] is a forerunner of the Savior…: [The trickster] is a forerunner of the saviour . . . . He is bot…

Carl Jung on the Process of interpreting Children’s Dreams.

Carl Jung on the Process of interpreting Children’s Dreams.: Children’s Dreams: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1940 (Philemon Foundation Series) Professor Jung: We are dealing here with children’s dreams of a particular kind, which are ver…

Some Carl Jung Quotations

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Carl Jung: the whole art lies in extracting wisdom from stupidity.

Carl Jung: the whole art lies in extracting wisdom from stupidity.: The man who is only wise and only holy interests me about as much as the skeleton of a rare saurian, which would not move me to tears. The insane contradiction, on the other hand, between ex…

Carl Jung "…art can no more be fashioned from concepts than from the Pythagorean theorem."

Carl Jung "…art can no more be fashioned from concepts than from the Pythagorean theorem.": C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 To Karl Srnetz Dear Colleague, 19 December 1942 It would be very nice indeed if it should turn out that the Chwolson is obtainable. Meanwhile I would lik…

Carl Jung "…I have recently read Wheelwright’s book about the Navajo Creation Myth…"

Carl Jung "…I have recently read Wheelwright’s book about the Navajo Creation Myth…": C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 To Margaret Erwin Schevill Dear Mrs. Schevill, 1 September 1942 Your letter has reached me with considerable delay but it has arrived. I think you could …

Carl Jung on Feeling, Sensation, Intuition Thinking

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Carl Jung: We must get in touch with the man of the ages, not be over impressed by the present, not be rushed.

Carl Jung: We must get in touch with the man of the ages, not be over impressed by the present, not be rushed.: Meetings with Jung: Conversations Recorded During the Years 1946-1961 Küsnacht, 29th August 1956 Arrived in Zürich. 30th August 1956 At breakfast C.G. spoke of the difficulties implicit in the idea…

Carl Jung: We must get in touch with the man of the ages, not be over impressed by the present, not be rushed.

Carl Jung: We must get in touch with the man of the ages, not be over impressed by the present, not be rushed.: Meetings with Jung: Conversations Recorded During the Years 1946-1961 Küsnacht, 29th August 1956 Arrived in Zürich. 30th August 1956 At breakfast C.G. spoke of the difficulties implicit in the idea…

Carl Jung: This leads to a restoration or apocatastasis of the lives of her ancestors,

Carl Jung: This leads to a restoration or apocatastasis of the lives of her ancestors,: The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.9 Part 1) The psyche pre-existent to consciousness (e.g., in the child) participates in the maternal psyche on the on…

Carl Jung on the Biological and Psychological Transformation of Instinct.

Carl Jung on the Biological and Psychological Transformation of Instinct.: The Jung-White Letters To Father Victor White My dear Father White, 13 February 1946 My answer to your kind letter comes very late indeed: I have a bad conscience. There are certain reasons,…

Jane Reid: Jung, My Mother and I – Quotations

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Carl Jung " I have raised corn, potatoes, beans and lately even wheat, also poppy for oil."

Carl Jung " I have raised corn, potatoes, beans and lately even wheat, also poppy for oil.": C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 To Eugene H. Henley My dear Henley, 20 April 1946 I should have written to you long ago to thank you for your kindness and generosity. The tobacco has sa…

Carl Jung: “The Mouse is a Soul Animal.”

Carl Jung: “The Mouse is a Soul Animal.”: Children’s Dreams: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1940 (Philemon Foundation Series) But why is it the mouse, of all animals, that is the medium of the development? We cannot give any co…

Carl Jung on the Symbolism of Snakes.

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Carl Jung on the Symbolism of Fish.

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Carl Jung on Martin Buber

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Some Carl Jung Quotations

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Carl Jung on "Immortality"

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For those interested in "Runes"…

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Carl Jung on "Immortality"

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She [Christiana Morgan] created mythic visions chronicling her struggle with the feminine and masculine forces in her world.

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Marie Louise Von Franz: Ghosts usually rattle their chains in the attic and walk about over our heads.

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Carl Jung: "The sin to be repented, of course, is unconsciousness."

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Carl Jung: It just boils down to the question of whether man will accept the ugliest man in himself, or not?

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Carl Jung on the Missionary in you.

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Carl Jung’s touching letter to Aniela Jaffe.

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Carl Jung and "… the prolongation of the cross downwards signifies a predominance of the unconscious is not improbable.”

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The real mystery does not behave mysteriously or secretively…

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Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements…

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Carl Jung to Alan Watts on the "Wheel of Life"

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The dream that preceded Jung’s concept of the collective unconscious…

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Carl Jung: Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.

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Carl Jung on the Dreams and Death of a 62 Year Old Woman.

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E.A. Bennet: C.G. told me that his name was on the black List in Germany because of his views,

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Carl Jung and “What does the Jack Frost in our Dream signify?"

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Carl Jung on Physical and Psychic processes.

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Carl Jung and Catholicism and Protestantism

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Some Carl Jung Quotations

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Carl Jung: It was the impish Mercury.

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Carl Jung: It is, so to speak, an unconscious prefiguration of the ego.

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Carl Jung and “I can only hope and wish that no one becomes "Jungian."

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Carl Jung: “Whoever goes to himself risks a confrontation with himself. . . .”

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Carl Jung on Saint Nicholas.

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Carl Jung and “It seems to be that you have very many opinions.”

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Carl Jung on "Archetypes" – Anthology

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Carl Jung: I thought, “Ha, this is a Druidic sacred place.

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Carl Jung on "The Birth of a Saviour."

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Carl Jung on the Girl who never noticed her body

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Carl Jung on the Vision of Brother Klaus.

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The Gods have claimed another Victim….

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The great problems of life—sexuality

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Carl Jung on the Collective Unconscious

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Jung defines his concept of the collective unconscious

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Carl Jung: The powers of my depths are predetermination and pleasure.

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Carl Jung letter to Allen W. Dulles

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Carl Jung on Elijah, Salome and The Serpent

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Aniela Jaffe: Pyramids are an expression of an archetypal image.

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Carl Jung and “…the dream is a pure product of the prenatal psyche…”

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Some Carl Jung Quotations XI

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There are two Bodies in Man

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Carl Jung on “Numbers” – Anthology

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Some Carl Jung Quotations XI

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Carl Jung on “Evil,” “Power,” and Lucifer as the Anthropos

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Carl Jung on “Evil,” “Power,” and Lucifer as the Anthropos

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Carl Jung on “why one’s fate always strives for posthumous recognition.

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Carl Jung: The archetype compensates this state of spiritual deficiency…

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Carl Jung on “Parental Power” and the “Idea of Suicide.”

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Carl Jung: One could describe these movements . . . as levitation, if one assumes that the objects moved by themselves.

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E.A. Bennet: He [Jung] is working on a manuscript with Marie-Louise von Franz.

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Sonu Shamdasani: From Zurich to Geneva

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Carl Jung on the Artist and images of the Collective Unconscious

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Carl Jung on Hosea the Prophet

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Carl Jung and "The Answer to Job"

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Carl Jung advises that mandalas found in monasteries and temples are of no particular significance…

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Carl Jung on Lao Tse and Tao

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Carl Jung: There were great artists (In Ancient Egypt) but their names are unknown.

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Carl Jung: The psyche pre-existent to consciousness (e.g., in the child) participates in the maternal psyche …

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Carl Jung: I owe to Wilhelm the most valuable elucidations…

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Carl Jung on the Animus of a Woman

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E.A. Bennet: He [Jung] told me of the stone he had just carved.

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Carl Jung: … a certain kind of resistance has an almost murderous effect…

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Carl Jung and "…a content emerges from within quite spontaneously, without causal involvement of the environment.”

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Carl Jung on Pascual Jordan, Time, Space and the Unconscious.

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Carl Jung on the Fear of Snakes

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Carl Jung on Pascual Jordan, Time, Space and the Unconscious.

Carl Jung on Pascual Jordan, Time, Space and the Unconscious.: C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 To Wolfgang Pauli Dear Professor Pauli, 29 October 1934 Best thanks for kindly sending me Jordan’s paper. I think this paper should be published, a…

Carl Jung on Pascual Jordan, Time, Space and the Unconscious.

Carl Jung on Pascual Jordan, Time, Space and the Unconscious.: To Wolfgang PauliDear Professor Pauli, 29 October 1934Best thanks for kindly sending me Jordan’s paper.I think this paper should be published, as it is concerned with the actual change over o…

Some Carl Jung Quotations LV***

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Carl Jung on how he discovered the Animus

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Dream of a Ten-Year-Old Girl of a Snake with Eyes Sparkling Like Diamonds

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Carl Jung: We knew that our mortal enemy was coming.

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Carl Jung Defends Erich Neumann

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Jung’s Influence on My Life and Work by John W. Perry

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Carl Jung on the “Ego” and “Super-Consciousness.”

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Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world…

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The Early Days by M. Esther Harding

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Also after that he [Carl Jung] had a wonderful dream which he told me in the night.

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The question of karma is obscure to me…

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The Most Significant Stimulus Derived From C.G. Jung by Barbara Hannah

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Some Carl Jung Quotations [XI]

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Carl Jung: I don’t know whether you will be irritated by this attempt.

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Carl Jung on how to “apply a structure to the dream.”

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Carl Jung: Then you need the message of the old tamer of chaos.

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Carl Jung on “Animals.” – Quotations; Anthology

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Carl Jung on the zodiacal signs through which the point of the vernal equinox went in historical times.

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Carl Jung: Then you need the message of the old tamer of chaos.

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Carl Jung on “White Animals.”

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Carl Jung on “Animals.” – Quotations; Anthology

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Carl Jung on the zodiacal signs through which the point of the vernal equinox went in historical times.

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Carl Jung: Christ was illegitimate and born virtually on a dunghill, yet the Son of God.

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Carl Jung on the zodiacal signs through which the point of the vernal equinox went in historical times.

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Carl Jung: Christ was illegitimate and born virtually on a dunghill, yet the Son of God.

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