Carl Jung: Selfish desire ultimately desires itself. Red Book Selfish desire ultimately desires itself. You find yourself in your desire, so do not say that desire is vain. If you desire yourself, you produce the divine son in your embrace with yourself. Your desire is the father of the God, your self…
The flock of birds occasioned a vague fear Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche CW 8 Here I would like to call attention to a possible misunderstanding which may be occasioned by the term “synchronicity.” I chose this term because the simultaneous occurrence of two meaningfully but not causally connected events seemed to me an…
Her unconscious was in fact constellated. Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche CW 8 Here I would like to call attention to a possible misunderstanding which may be occasioned by the term “synchronicity.” I chose this term because the simultaneous occurrence of two meaningfully but not causally connected events seemed to me an essential criterion.…
Carl Jung: Projection is one of the commonest psychic phenomena. Civilization in Transition CW 10 Projection is one of the commonest psychic phenomena. It is the same as participation mystique, which Levy-Bruhl, to his great credit, emphasized as being an especially characteristic feature of primitive man. We merely give it another name, and as a…
One might even speak of a spontaneous archetypal intervention. Collected Letters Vol. II In the same way, the archetype is not evoked by a conscious act of the will; experience shows that it is activated, independently of the will, in a psychic situation that needs compensating by an archetype. One might even speak of a…