The Life, Work and Legacy of Carl Jung
Number is the most simple, the most primitive instrument of setting order. In this chapter also belongs the role of numbers. We know that eighty percent, if not more, of all mantic or divinatory methods are based on natural numbers. You can, for instance, make a divination by reading the name of a person: you … Read more
Every whole [natural] number is detached from the others, it possesses its own individuality To my mind, however, this viewpoint omits the fourth, irrational, “just-so-ness” of individual natural integers. This element has certainly been recognized time and again, but no one quite knows what to make of it. Henri Poincare, for instance, says: “Every whole … Read more
number forms, according to Jung, that particular element that unites the realms of matter and psyche. In light of the existence of such “hierarchical” or proportional numbers in physics, it is evident that number really represents an unalterable quality of matter, both as a quantitative factor and as the form ( and thus a qualitative … Read more
Number is the most accessible primitive manifestation of this transcendental spontaneous principle of movement in the psyche Consequently, it is not only the parallelism of concepts (to which Bohr and Pauli have both drawn attention) which nowadays draws physics and psychology together, but more significantly the psychic dynamics of the concept of number as an … Read more