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“The unconscious is pure nature, and, like nature, pours out its gifts in profusion. But left to itself and without the human response from consciousness, it can (again like nature) destroy its own gifts and sooner or later sweep them into annihilation.”
― Man and His Symbols
― Man and His Symbols
“In the middle of our century, the purely abstract picture without any regular order of forms and colors has become the most frequent expression in painting. The deeper the dissolution of "reality," the more the picture loses its symbolic content. The reason for this lies in the nature of the symbol and its function. The symbol is an object of the known world hinting at something unknown; it is the known expressing the life and sense of the inexpressible. But in merely abstract paintings, the world of the known has completely vanished. Nothing is left to form a bridge to the unknown.”
― Man and His Symbols
― Man and His Symbols
“In fact, whenever a human being genuinely turns to the inner world and tries to know himself鈥攏ot by ruminating about his subjective thoughts and feelings, but by following the expressions of his own objective nature such as dreams and genuine fantasies鈥攖hen sooner or later the Self emerges. The ego will then find an inner power that contains all the possibilities of renewal.”
― Man and His Symbols
― Man and His Symbols
“The deeper layers of the psyche,鈥 he has said, 鈥渓ose their individual uniqueness as they retreat farther and farther into darkness. 鈥楲ower down,鈥 that is to say, as they approach the autonomous functional systems, they become increasingly collective until they are universalized and extinguished in the body鈥檚 materiality, i.e. in chemical substances. The body鈥檚 carbon is simply carbon. Hence 鈥榓t bottom鈥 the psyche is simply 鈥榳orld.”
― Man and His Symbols
― Man and His Symbols
“But there is a great difficulty that I have mentioned only indirectly up till now. This is that every personification of the unconscious鈥攖he shadow, the anima, the animus, and the Self鈥攈as both a light and a dark aspect. We saw before that the shadow may be base or evil, an instinctive drive that one ought to overcome. It may, however, be an impulse toward growth that one should cultivate and follow. In the same way the anima and animus have dual aspects: They can bring life-giving development and creativeness to the personality, or they can cause petrification and physical death. And even the Self, the all-embracing symbol of the unconscious, has an ambivalent effect, as for instance in the Eskimo tale (this page), when the 鈥渓ittle woman鈥 offered to save the heroine from the Moon Spirit but actually turned her into a spider.”
― Man and His Symbols
― Man and His Symbols
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