The Essential Jung
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Jung is a fantastic resource for understanding and interpreting psychological experience in the phenomenol world - essential reading ...

If you get the chance, read the introduction to the I'Ching: Book of Changes, by Jung in the Richard Wilhelm edition ... its fantastic!

Notes from The Essential Jung: Selected Writings.
Introduced by Anthony Storr.
Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1983.


On Archetypes:
Page 102 – ‘As to its common human qualities, the character of the anima can be deduced from that of the persona. Everything that should be in the outer attitude, but is conspicuously absent, will invariably be found in the inner attitude …’

On Archetypes:
Page 102 – ‘As to its common human qualities, the character of the anima can be deduced from that of the persona. Everything that should be in the outer attitude, but is conspicuously absent, will invariably be found in the inner attitude …’


‘… but as regards its individual qualities, nothing can be deduced about them in this way. We can only be certain that when a man is identical with his persona, his individual qualities will be associated with his anima. This association frequently gives rise in dreams to the symbol of psychic pregnancy, a symbol that goes back to the image of the heroes’ birth …’
 

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‘… the child that is to be born signifies the individuality, which though present, is yet not yet conscious. For in the same way that the persona, the instrument of adaptation to the environment, is strongly influenced by environmental conditions, the anima is shaped by the unconscious and its qualities.’
Page 103 – Identity - with the persona automatically leads to an unconscious identity with the anima because, when the ego is not differentiated by the persona, it can have no conscious relation to the unconscious processes. Consequently, it  is  these processes, it is identical with them. Anyone who is himself his outward role will infalliby succomb to the inner processes; he will either frustrate his outward role by absolute inner necessity or else reduce it to absurdity, by a process of enantiodromia.. He can no longer keep to his individual way, and his life runs into one deadlock after another. Moreover, the anima is then projected onto a real object, with which he gets into a relations of almost total dependance. Every reaction displayed by this object has an immediate, inwardly enervating effect on the subject. Tragic ties are often formed in this way.’

Soul image – ‘With men the anima is  usually personified as a woman’ and vice versa.

‘In all cases when there is an identity with the persona, and the soul accordingly is unconscious, the soul is image is then transferred to a real person. The person is the object of intense love, or equally intense hate (or fear).’

‘Conscious adaptation to the person representing the soul is impossible precisely because the subject is unconscious of the soul. Were he conscious of it, it could be distinguished from the object, whose immediate effects might then be mitigated, since the potency of the object depends on the projection of the soul image.’

‘If the soul image is projected, the result is an absolute affective tie to the object, If it is not projected, a relatively unadapted state develops, which Freud describes as Narcissism. The projection of the soul image offers a release from the preoccupation with the soul image. The subject is then in a position to live out his persona and develop it further.’

Page 116 – ‘Not all of the contents of the anima or animus are projected, however. Many of them appear in dream s and so on, and many more of them can be made conscious through active imagination. In this way we find that thoughts, feelings and affects are alive in us which we would never have believed possible. Naturally, possibilities of this sort seem utterly fantastic to anyone who has not experienced them himself, for a normal person knows what he thinks. Such a childish attitude on the part of the person is simply the rule, so that no one without experience in this field can be expected to understand the real nature of the anima and animus.’

{quote_middle}Page 117 –  ‘The reason for their behaving in this way is that though the contents of anima and animus can be integrated they themselves can not, since they are archetypes. As such they are the foundation stones of psychic structure, which in its totality exceeds the limits of consciousness and therefore can never become the object of direct cognition. Though the effects of anima and animus can be made conscious, they themselves are factors transcending consciousness and beyond the reach of  perception and volition.’


Page 120 – ‘He (Philemon) said I treated thoughts as if I generated them myself, but in his view thoughts were like animals in the forest, or people in a room, or birds in the air. “If you were to see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or you were responsible for them.’

Page 120 – ‘He (Philemon) said I treated thoughts as if I generated them myself, but in his view thoughts were like animals in the forest, or people in a room, or birds in the air. “If you were to see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or you were responsible for them.’


Page 124 – ‘Possession by an archetype turns a man into a flat collective figure, a mask behind which he can no longer function as a human being, but becomes increasingly stunted.’

Page 124 – ‘Possession by an archetype turns a man into a flat collective figure, a mask behind which he can no longer function as a human being, but becomes increasingly stunted.’


‘The danger lies not only in oneself becoming a father-mask, but in being overpowered by this mask when worn by others.’
Page 126 – ‘the archetype of spirit in the shape of a man, hobgoblin, or animal always appears in a situation where insight, understanding, good advice, planning are needed but one can not be mustered on one’s own resources.’  

‘The danger lies not only in oneself becoming a father-mask, but in being overpowered by this mask when worn by others.’
Page 126 – ‘the archetype of spirit in the shape of a man, hobgoblin, or animal always appears in a situation where insight, understanding, good advice, planning are needed but one can not be mustered on one’s own resources.’  


Page 139 – Psychological Typology
‘Unlike Freud …. I start with the sovereignty of the psyche. Since body and psyche somewhere form a unity, there is no alternative but to investaigate them separately, and for the present, treat them as though they  were independent of one another, at least in their structure.’

Page 139 – Psychological Typology
‘Unlike Freud …. I start with the sovereignty of the psyche. Since body and psyche somewhere form a unity, there is no alternative but to investaigate them separately, and for the present, treat them as though they  were independent of one another, at least in their structure.’


Page 199 – ‘What is it in the end that induces a man to go on his own way and to rise out of unconscious identity with the mass as out of a swathing mist? …. It is what is commonly called vocation: an irrational factor that destines a man to emancipate himself from the herd and from its well worn paths. True personality is always a vocation and puts its trust in God, despite its being, as the ordinary man would say, onlyy a feeling. But vocation acts like a law of god from which there is noe escape. … He must obey his own law as if it was a Daemon whispering to him of new and wonderful paths. Anyone with a vocation hears the voice of the inner man: he is called.’

Page 199 – ‘What is it in the end that induces a man to go on his own way and to rise out of unconscious identity with the mass as out of a swathing mist? …. It is what is commonly called vocation: an irrational factor that destines a man to emancipate himself from the herd and from its well worn paths. True personality is always a vocation and puts its trust in God, despite its being, as the ordinary man would say, onlyy a feeling. But vocation acts like a law of god from which there is noe escape. … He must obey his own law as if it was a Daemon whispering to him of new and wonderful paths. Anyone with a vocation hears the voice of the inner man: he is called.’
{quote_bottom}Page 200 – ‘The original meaning of ‘to have a vocation’ is to ‘be addressed by a voice.’
Page 201 – ‘People think themselves musicians who can conjure the psyche hither and thither and fashion it to suit their moods. They denie what strikes them as inconvenient, sublimate anything nasty, explain away their phobias, corrects their faults, and feel in the end that they have arranged everything beautifully.. In the meantime they have forgotten the essential point, which is that only the tiniest fraction of the psyche is identical with the conscious mind and it box of magic tricks., while for much the greater part it is sheer unconscious fact, hard and inimitable as granite, immovable, inaccessible, yet ready at anytime to come crashing down on us at the behest of unseen powers.’

‘The gigantic catastrophies that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or a biological order, but psychic events … wars and revolutions are none other than psychic epidemics.’


 

 
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