Quotes on Collective Unconscious

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

I'm just trying to rid the world of all these fevered egos that are tainting our collective unconscious.

You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious

I cannot define for you what God is. I can only say that my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern has at its disposal the greatest of all his energies for transformation and transfiguration of his natural being. Not only the meaning of his life but his renewal and his institutions depend on his conscious relationship with this pattern of his collective unconscious.

I like to use the term alchemy, which is the soul of the world, or those of Jung's collective unconscious. You connect with a space where everything is.

The God-image in man was not destroyed by the Fall but was only damaged and corrupted (“deformed”), and can be restored through God's grace. The scope of the integration is suggested by the descensus ad inferos, the descent of Christ's soul to hell, its work of redemption embracing even the dead. The psychological equivalent of this is the integration of the collective unconscious which forms an essential part of the individuation process.

The world of gods and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious inside me.

To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.