#Jung: "Many objections have been raised against the view that myths represent psychological facts. People are very loath to give up the idea that the myth is some kind of explanatory allegory of astronomical, meteorological, or vegetative processes. The coexistence of

#Jung: "The essays collected together in this little volume were written over a period of thirty years, the first in 1902 and the last in 1932. The reason why I am bringing them out together is that all three are concerned with certain borderline problems of the human psyche, the

#Jung: "The present world situation is calculated as never before to arouse expectations of a redeeming, supernatural event. If these expectations have not dared to show themselves in the open, this is simply because no one is deeply rooted enough in the tradition of earlier

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#Jung: "Doctors in general not only have a repugnance to reading voluminous books, they also have a regular horror of thinking, for which they have ceased to be trained ever since their high-school days. It therefore remains uncommonly difficult for them; so difficult, indeed,

#Jung: "Many thanks for your friendly letter, which shows that the Buber-Jung controversy is a serious matter for you.¹ And so indeed it is, for here that threshold which separates two epochs plays the principal role. I mean by that threshold the theory of knowledge whose

Dear Professor Freud,¹ It has come to my ears through Dr. Maeder that you doubt my bona fides. I would have expected you to communicate with me directly on so weighty a matter. Since this is the gravest reproach that can be levelled at anybody, you have made further

"Access to the #shadow is blocked by its inconsistency with the #ego's view of itself. Thus Jung described the negative shadow as 'the sum of all those unpleasant qualities we like to hide.'⁹⁶ When the ego cannot perceive the shadow internally, in its own #dreams and fantasies,

Jung's View of Symbols: "How do we see beyond what's in our minds? For that matter, how do we see what's in our minds? For #Jung, of course, the answer lay in #symbols, those puzzling images that routinely transcend our expectations. We have seen how Tillich, Merton, Heidegger,

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"For Jung, #consciousness comes under the influence of symbols through a multilayered process. We saw in chapter one how #archetypes arrange perceptions and experiences into #complexes, thereby building the basic structures of the psyche. By creating fields that attract

"#Jung gave four chief causes for the #repressions which had already sent the impersonal elements into the #unconscious. These points made a deep impression upon me, because I had suffered from all of them in my early connection with the Church. The first of these tendencies was

#Jung: "What our age thinks of as the '#shadow' and inferior part of the psyche contains more than something merely negative. The very fact that through self-knowledge, that is, by exploring our own souls, we come upon the instincts and their world of imagery should throw some