Carl Gustav Jung:
Ψ Carl Jung is undeniably one of the most fascinating people in his field. The ideas are challenging to the mind even to the stimulation of a crisis in thinking. This website is dedicated to the exploration of some of Jung's ideas with links to more.
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Jung
"Carl Jung was one of the creators of modern depth psychology, which seeks to facilitate a conversation with the unconscious energies which move through each of us. He contributed many ideas which continue to inform contemporary life: complex, archetype, persona, shadow, anima and animus, personality typology, dream interpretation, individuation, and many other ideas. He had a deep appreciation of our creative life and considered spirituality a central part of the human journey. His method of interpretation of symbolic expression not only deepens our understanding of personal material, opening the psychodynamics of our personal biographies and dreams, but the deeper, collective patterns which develop within culture as well. In his memoir, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Jung wrote that meaning comes “when people feel they are living the symbolic life, that they are actors in the divine drama. That gives the only meaning to human life; everything else is banal and you can dismiss it. A career, producing of children, are all maya (illusion) compared to that one thing, that your life is meaningful.”
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Ψ Self:
"As an empirical concept, the self designates the whole range of psychic phenomena in man. It expresses the unity of the personality as a whole. ...
it is a transcendental concept, for it presupposes the existence of unconscious factors on empirical grounds and thus characterizes an entity that can be described only in part, but for the other part, remains at present unknowable and illimitable" ~ Jung
Carl Gustav Jung.
Psychological Types, volume 6 of The collected works of C. G. Jung.
Princeton University Press, 1971.[32, ¶789].
"Sensing the self as something irrational, as an indefinable existent, to which the ego is neither opposed nor subject, but merely attached, and about which it revolves very much as the earth revolves round the sun--thus we come to the goal of individuation. I use the word ``sensing'' to indicate the apperceptive character of the relationship between ego and self. In this relationship nothing is knowable, because we can say nothing about the contents of the self. The ego is the only content of the self that we do know. The individuated ego senses itself as the object of an unknown and supraordinate subject. It seems to me that our psychological inquiry must come to a stop here, for the idea of a self is itself a transcendental postulate which, although justified psychologically, does not allow of scientific proof. This step beyond science is an unconditional requirement of the psychological development I have sought to depict, because without this postulate I could give no adequate formulation of the psychic processes that occur empirically. At the very least, therefore, the self can claim the value of an hypothesis analogous to that of the structure of the atom. And even though we should once again be enmeshed in an image, it is none the less powerfully alive, and its interpretation quite exceeds my powers. I have no doubt at all that is an image, but one in which we are contained." ~ Jung Carl Gustav Jung. "The self is transcendent because it points to an unlimited future and unbounded creative expansion of the evolutionary process. This is something that no being can comprehend. Of course we can have some sense of the future structure of the evolutionary process, but that tells us nothing of its essence. It tells us nothing of what it is like to be a more highly evolved being." Paul P. Budnik Jr. http://www.mtnmath.com/whatrh/node112.html Ψ Individuation:
Two Essays in Analytical Pcychology, volume 7 of The collected works of C. G. Jung.
Princeton University Press, 1966. [26, ¶405]
"The self does not become conscious by itself, but has always been taught, if at all, through a tradition of knowing . . .
Since it stands for the essence of individuation, it is impossible without a relationship to one's environment, it is found among those of like mind with whom individual relations can be established. The self, moreover, is an archetype that invariably expresses a situation within which the ego is contained. Therefore, like every archetype, the self cannot be localized in an individual ego-consciousness but acts like a circumambient atmosphere to which no definite limits can be set, either in space or in time. (Hence the synchronistic phenomena so often associated with activated archetypes.)"
~Jung
(CW 9/2, par. 257.)
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"The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one that is consciously realized is tremendous.
In the first case, consciousness nowhere intervenes; the end remains as dark as the beginning. In the second case, so much darkness comes to light that the personality is permeated with light and consciousness necessarily gains in scope and insight. The encounter between conscious and unconscious has to ensure that the light that shines in the darkness is not only comprehended by the darkness, but comprehends it" ~ Jung
(from "Answer to Job" in CW 11, par. 756).
http://jung.org/Jung%20On%20Archetype%20of%20Self%20article.html
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