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Carl Jung: “Individuation gathers together what is scattered…”
Swinside Western Cumbria Self-reflection, or – what comes to the same thing – the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it to the original of the One,...
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Carl Jung: “… Leading the way to the Gates of the Sun and the Land of Dreams.”
Ὁ Αἰὼν παῖς ἐστι παίζων, πεττεύων· παιδὸς ἡ βασιληίη» · Τελεσφόρος διελαύνων τοὺς σκοτεινοὺς τοῦ κόσμου τόπους, καὶ ὡς ἀστὴρ ἀναλάμπων ἐκ τοῦ βάθους, ὁδηγεῖ «παρ’ Ἠελίοιο πύλας καὶ δῆμον ὀνείρων»...
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Carl Jung: “I need not have written any books—it’s all here on the stone.”
I am an orphan, alone; nevertheless I am found everywhere. I am one, but opposed to myself. I am youth and old man at one and the same time. I have known neither father nor mother, because I have had...
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Carl Jung: “That is my stone. I must have it.”
In 1950 I made a kind of monument out of stone to express what the Tower means to me. The story of how this stone came to me is a curious one. I needed stones for building the enclosing wall for the...
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Carl Jung: “Only gradually did I discover what the mandala really is…”
Jung’s first mandala, 1916 It was only toward the end of the First World War that I gradually began to emerge from the darkness. One of the principle events that drew me out was that I began to...
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Carl Jung: “There is little hope of our ever being able to reach even...
The self is a quantity that is superordinate to the conscious ego. It embraces not only the conscious but also the unconscious psyche, and is therefore, so to speak, a personality which we also are…...
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Carl Jung: “The severe pattern imposed by a circular image of this kind...
The severe pattern imposed by a circular image of this kind compensates the disorder and confusion of the psychic state—namely, through the construction of a central point to which everything is...
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Carl Jung: “The Self appears in dreams…”
from the Red Book The self appears in dreams, myths, and fairytales in the figure of the “supraordinate personality,” such as a king, hero, prophet, saviour, etc., or in the form of a totality symbol,...
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Carl Jung: “The energy of the central point is manifested in the almost...
Painted by Jung in 1927 As I have said, mandala means circle. There are innumerable variants of the motif, but they are all based on squaring the circle. Their basic motif is the premonition of a...
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Carl Jung: “Wholeness is thus an objective factor that confronts the subject...
detail from the Red Book . Although “wholeness” seems at first sight to be nothing but an abstract idea . . . , it is nevertheless empirical insofar as it is anticipated by the psyche in the form of...
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Carl Jung: “I will try to define the term ‘individuation’ as simply as possible…
I will try to explain the term “individuation” as simply as possible. By it I mean the psychological process that makes of a human being an “individual”-a unique, indivisible unit or “whole man.“ from...
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Carl Jung: “Alchemy has performed for me the great and invaluable service…
Alchemy has performed for me the great and invaluable service of providing material in which my experience could find sufficient room, and has thereby made it possible for me to describe the...
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Carl Jung: “Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious...
Marc Chagall, Night Visitor “Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us the unvarnished, natural truth,...
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Carl Jung: “I have no theory about dreams…”
I have no theory about dreams, I do not know how dreams arise. And I am not at all sure that – my way of handling dreams even deserves the name of a “method.” I share all your prejudices against...
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Carl Jung: “One would do well to treat every dream as if it were a totally...
Henry Moore, 1942: Crowd looking at a tied-up object. One would do well to treat every dream as though it were a totally unknown object. Look at it from all sides, take it in your hand, carry it about...
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Carl Jung: “There exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal...
From: C. G. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (London 1996) p. 43
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