Strictly speaking, projection is never made; it happens, it is simply there.
Strictly speaking, projection is never made; it happens, it is simply there.
In the darkness of anything external to me I find, without recognizing it as such, an interior or psychic life that is my own.
It would therefore be a mistake in my opinion to explain the formula “tarn ethice quam physice” by the theory of correspondences, and to say that this is its “cause.”
On the contrary, this theory is more likely to be a rationalization of the experience of projection.
The alchemist did not practise his art because he believed on theoretical grounds in correspondence; the point is that he had a theory of correspondence because he experienced the presence of pre-existing ideas in physical matter.
I am therefore inclined to assume that the real root of alchemy is to be sought less in philosophical doctrines than in the projections of individual investigators.
I mean by this that while working on his chemical experiments the operator had certain psychic experiences which appeared to him as the particular behaviour of the chemical process.
Since it was a question of projection, he was naturally unconscious of the fact that the experience had nothing to do with matter itself (that is, with matter as we know it today).
He experienced his projection as a property of matter; but what he was in reality experiencing was his own unconscious.
In this way he recapitulated the whole history of man’s knowledge of nature.
As we all know, science began with the stars, and mankind discovered in them the dominants of the unconscious, the “gods,” as well as the curious psychological qualities of the zodiac: a complete projected theory of human character.
Astrology is a primordial experience similar to alchemy. Such pwoman masculinee unconsciousthemselves whenever man tries to explore an empty darkness and involuntarily fills it with living form. ~Carl Jung, CW 12, Para 346
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Of course you really don’t make projections: they are; it is a mistake when one speaks of making a projection, because in that moment it is no longer a projection, but your own property. ~Carl Jung, Zarathustra Seminar, Page 1493.
Such things can happen: a projection is a very tangible thing, a sort of semi-substantial thing which forms a load as if it had real weight. It is exactly as the primitives understand it, a subtle body. ~Carl Jung, Zarathustra Seminar, Page 1495.
Of course you really don’t make projections: they are; it is a mistake when one speaks of making a projection, because in that moment it is no longer a projection, but your own property. ~Carl Jung, Zarathustra Seminar, Page 1493.
If a complete or divine consciousness were possible, there would be no projection, which means that there would be no world, because the world is the definiteness of the divine projection. ~Carl Jung, Zarathustra Seminar, Page 132.
Medical treatment of the transference gives the patient a priceless opportunity to withdraw his projections, to make good his losses, and to integrate his personality. ~Carl Jung; The Psychology of the Transference,” CW 16, par. 420.
So long as the self is unconscious, it corresponds to Freud’s superego and is a source of perpetual moral conflict. If, however, it is withdrawn from projection and is no longer identical with public opinion, then one is truly one’s own yea and nay. The self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine that it is psychologically possible to imagine. ~Carl Jung; “Transformation Symbolism in the Mass”; CW 11, par. 396.
A man who is unconscious of himself acts in a blind, instinctive way and is in addition fooled by all the illusions that arise when he sees everything that he is not conscious of in himself coming to meet him from outside as projections upon his neighbour. ~Carl Jung; The Philosophical Tree; CW 13; Alchemical Studies; Page 335.
Nothing has a more divisive and alienating effect upon society than this moral complacency and lack of responsibility, and nothing promotes understanding and rapprochement more than the mutual withdrawal of projections.” ~Carl Jung; The Undiscovered Self; Page 72.
What happens when man introjects God? A superman psychosis, because every blockhead thinks that when he withdraws a projection its contents cease to exist. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Pages 407.
Ghosts and Spirits. These phenomena are projections from the background of the psyche, autonomous inner images of a subjective nature, obeying no conscious intention, but coming and going at their own volition. ~Carl Jung, Modern Psychology, Vol. 1, Page 40.
Our projections on other people behave like the icicle, they return to us, we do not remain unpunished when we make projections. ~Carl Jung, Modern Psychology, Vol. 2, Page 174.
The dissolution of the transference often consists in ceasing to describe the nature of one’s relationship as “transference.” This designation degrades the relationship to a mere projection, which it is not. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Page 475.
The projection upon the feminine partner contains the anima and sometimes the self. ~Carl Jung, CW 16, Page 244, Footnote 15.
Our projections on other people behave like the icicle, they return to us, we do not remain unpunished when we make projection. ~Carl Jung, ETH Lecture 18Jan1935, Page 174.
Christ contains all project!ons. Men projected head and called him the Logos, and women projected heart and called him Love. ~Carl Jung, Cornwall Seminar, Page 16.
What Freud calls ‘the dream façade’ is the dream’s obscurity, and this is really only a project!on of our own lack of understanding. We say that the dream has a false front only because we fail to see into it. ~Carl Jung, CW 16, Par. 319.
Individual existence is the crime against the gods, disobedience to God, the peccatum originale. Out of this project!on of spiritual fire is born the anima. ~Carl Jung, Jung-Ostrowski, Page 32.
The projection of anima and animus causes mutual fascination. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Page 402.
Although I have never been to Lourdes I cast no doubts on them. So far as they are medically verifiable I do not consider them “project!ons” in any sense. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 440-442
Withdrawal of projections is obviously a truth whose validity is only of limited application. It is pretty certain that they can be withdrawn only to the extent that one is conscious. How far a man can become conscious nobody knows. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 504-506
We have as a matter of fact been able to correct a number of project!ons. Whether this amounts to much or little, and whether it is a real advance or only an apparent one, is known only to the angels. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 504-506
From what we know of genuine primitives today, the stars play an astonishingly small role in their lives, a fact which may justify the assumption that the project!on of the constellations and their interpretation coincided with the beginnings of a reflecting consciousness, i.e., with the first steps in civilization. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Page 563.
We must bear in mind that we do not make project!ons, rather they happen to us. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Page 563.
I would say: the introvert also tries, through the hypothesis of abstraction, to reach the object, actually reality, which seems to him chaotic only because of the project!on of his unused and therefore undeveloped feeling. He tries to conquer the object by thinking. But he wants to reach the object quite as much as the extravert. ~Carl Jung, Jung-Schmid Correspondence, Pages 55-62.
