Oglethorpe Museum Exhibit of Mandala’s by Carl Jung’s Patients Click here to see video: Artwork by Jung’s patients exhibited (Slow to load) THE SACRED ROUND: Mandalas by the Patients of Carl Jung February 5-May 6, 2012 “The Sacred Round: Mandalas by the Patients of Carl Jung,” the first-ever exhibition of forty…
Carl Jung, on Drawing his First Mandala It was only towards the end of the First World War that I gradually began to emerge from the darkness. Two events contributed to this. The first was that I broke with the woman who was determined to convince me that my fantasies had artistic value; the…
Archetypes are complexes of experience that come upon us like fate, and their effects are felt in our most personal life. “The ‘squaring of the circle’ is one of the many archetypal motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams and fantasies. But it is distinguished by the fact that it is one of…
‘ Carl Jung: The mandala as depicting “a kind of central point within the psyche.” The mandala’s basic motif is the premonition of a center of personality, a kind of central point within the psyche, to which everything is related, by which everything is arranged, and which is itself a source of energy…. This…
Carl Jung on the Central Position of the Mandala “I had to abandon the idea of the superordinate position of the ego…. I saw that everything, all paths I had been following, all steps I had taken, were leading back to a single point — namely, to the mid-point. It became increasingly plain…
Jung Describes His Process of Drawing Mandalas I sketched every morning in a notebook a small circular drawing, a mandala, which seemed to correspond to my inner situation at the time. With the help of these drawings I could observe my psychic transformations from day to day. . .. Only gradually did I discover…
“The eye is the prototype for the mandala.” C.G. Jung Mandala Symbolism Bollingen Press 1959
“The mandala is an archetypal image whose occurrence is attested throughout the ages. It signifies the wholeness of the Self. This circular image represents the wholeness of the psychic ground or, to put it in mythic terms, the divinity incarnate in man.” Memories, Dreams and Reflections Pages 334-335
Carl Jung: The mandala as a compensation for a disordered psychic state “In such cases it is easy to see how the severe pattern imposed by a circular image of this kind compensates the disorder of the psychic state– namely through a the construction of a central point to which everything is related,…