Carl Jung: Here epistemology sets us absolute limits
To Robert Dietrich
Dear Herr Dietrich, 27 March 1957
If a person knows something, or thinks he does, he can and will speak of his knowledge regardless of whether the object of his knowledge is thereby devalued or not.
Compensatory contents rise up from the unconscious precisely because they possess healing power and are necessary to consciousness.
There is no reason why whole numbers possess certain meanings or qualities, and no reason why elephants or men should exist.
These arrangements are simply there as given facts, like the crystalline systems or the discontinuities of physics, even as the whole of creation is a “just-so story.”
Your remark that “the real discoveries in the field of knowledge become ever fewer” astounds me.
I have the impression that there are more and more of them, and that they become more and more difficult.
Where the determinants of all being come from is an unanswerable question before which I come to a halt, without pretending to know better or a feeling of sacred awe.
Here epistemology sets us absolute limits.
With best regards,
Yours sincerely,
C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Page 355.
Carl Jung on “Limits” -Anthology
…the fact is that free will only exists within the limits of consciousness. Beyond those limits there is mere compulsion. ~Carl Jung; Letters Volume 1, Page 227
The God of words is cold and dead and shines from afar like the moon, mysteriously and inaccessibly: Let the word return to its creator, to man, and thus the word will be heightened in man. Man should be light, limits, measure. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 271.
Man as a spiritual being is made human by essence (hsing). The individual man possesses it. but it extends far beyond the limits of the individual. ~The Secret of the Golden Flower, Page 11.
We are not sure how far the relativity can go, so we do not know whether there is a level or a world on or in which space and time are absolutely abolished; but we remain within the limits of human experience when we accept the fact that it is the psyche which is able to relativize the apparent objectivity of time and space. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 398-400
The serpent shows the way to hidden things and expresses the introverting libido, which leads man to go beyond the point of safety, and beyond the limits of consciousness, as expressed by the deep crater. ~Carl Jung, 1925 Seminar, Page 102
Carl Jung: Here epistemology sets us absolute limits
To Robert Dietrich
Dear Herr Dietrich, 27 March 1957
If a person knows something, or thinks he does, he can and will speak of his knowledge regardless of whether the object of his knowledge is thereby devalued or not.
Compensatory contents rise up from the unconscious precisely because they possess healing power and are necessary to consciousness.
There is no reason why whole numbers possess certain meanings or qualities, and no reason why elephants or men should exist.
These arrangements are simply there as given facts, like the crystalline systems or the discontinuities of physics, even as the whole of creation is a “just-so story.”
Your remark that “the real discoveries in the field of knowledge become ever fewer” astounds me.
I have the impression that there are more and more of them, and that they become more and more difficult.
Where the determinants of all being come from is an unanswerable question before which I come to a halt, without pretending to know better or a feeling of sacred awe.
Here epistemology sets us absolute limits.
With best regards,
Yours sincerely,
C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Page 355.
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