“What people really seek, even if they project it sometimes onto outer objects, is the feeling of being alive.” DesireSocietyJung Book:Individuation in Fairy Tales Source: Individuation in Fairy Tales
“This is an archetypal motif: where the pearl is, there is also the dragon, and vice versa. They are never separate. Frequently, just after the first intuitive realization of the Self, the powers of desolation and darkness break in. A terrible slaughtering always takes place at the time of the birth of the hero, as for instance the killing of the innocents at Bethlehem when Christ was born. Some persecuting power starts at once to blot out the inner germ. Outwardly, it is often that the innermost kernel of the human being has an actually irritating effect upon outer surroundings. Realization of the Self when in statu nascendi, when only a hunch, makes a person unadapted and difficult for those around, for it disturbs the unconscious instinctive order. Jung often said that it is as if a flock of sheep resented it bitterly that one sheep wanted to walk by itself.” SelfArchetypeJungIndividuation Book:The Feminine in Fairy Tales Source: The Feminine in Fairy Tales
“To sum up: numbers appear to represent both an attribute of matter and the unconscious foundation of our mental process. For this reason, number forms, according to Jung, that particular element that unites the realms of matter and psyche. It is "real" in a double sense, as an archetypal image and as a qualitative manifestation in the realm of outer-world experience.” WorldRealMatterReasonFormProcessNumbersParticularElementsFoundationManifestationRealmsUnconsciousAttributesOuter WorldsJungQualitative Book:Number and Time Source: Number and Time
“Jung even asserted that he would have no objection to regarding the psyche as a quality of matter and matter as a concrete aspect of the psyche, provided that the psyche was understood to be the collective unconscious.” MatterQualityUnderstoodAspectUnconsciousCollectivesConcreteObjectionsJungCollective Unconscious Book:Psyche and Matter Source: Psyche and Matter
“Number, as it were, lies behind the psychic realm as a dynamic ordering principle, the primal element of which Jung called spirit. As an archetype, number becomes not only a psychic factor, but more generally, a world-structuring factor. In other words, numbers point to a background reality in which psyche and matter are no longer distinguishable.” WorldMatterRealitySpiritLyingNumbersBehindsPrinciplesElementsBackgroundsFactorsRealmsPsychicsPrimalArchetypeJung Author:Marie-Louise von Franz
