Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
Carl JungRead
The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.
Interpretation
The collective unconscious is a shared part of the psyche filled with instinctual and archetypal images that influence human behavior.
Carl Jung's quote emphasizes the concept of the collective unconscious, which he argues is a universal aspect of the human psyche. This collective aspect contains innate instincts and archetypes, or symbolic images, that shape how individuals experience the world, suggesting that all people share certain psychological patterns that affect their thoughts and behaviors, transcending personal experiences.
In practice
In a psychology lecture, when discussing human behavior and shared experiences.
Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.
Complexes are psychic contents which are outside the control of the conscious mind. They have been split off from consciousness and lead a separate existence in the unconscious, being at all times ready to hinder or to reinforce the conscious intentions.
We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.
From the viewpoint of analytic psychology, the theatre, aside from any aesthetic value, may be considered as an institution for the treatment of the mass complex.
I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been.
He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.
Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens to be the right religion. Religions run in families. If we'd been brought up in ancient Greece we would all be worshiping Zeus and Apollo. If we had been born Vikings we would be worshiping Wotan and Thor. How does this come about ? Through childhood indoctrination.
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