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Carl Jung, on Art and the Collective Unconscious

Carl Jung, on Art and the Collective Unconscious The rapid and worldwide growth of a psychological interest over the last two decades shows unmistakably that modern man is turning his attention from outward material things to his own inner processes. Expressionism in art prophetically anticipated this subjective development, for all art intuitively apprehends coming changes…

Jung defines his concept of the shadow
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Jung defines his concept of the shadow

  Carl Jung: On the Shadow   I have tried, in this book, to elucidate and amplify the various aspects of the archetype which it is most important for modern man to understand— namely, the archetype of the self. By way of introduction, I described those concepts and archetypes which manifest themselves in the course…

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C.G. Jung: “A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”

    A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house next door, and at any moment a flame may dart out and set fire to his own house. Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always…

St. Patrick’s Dream: “We appeal to you, holy servant boy, to come and walk among us.”

 (From Wikipedia:) According to the Confession of St. Patrick, at the age of just sixteen Patrick was captured by a group of Irish pirates.  The raiders brought Patrick to Ireland where he was enslaved and held captive for six years. Patrick writes in The Confession  that the time he spent in captivity was critical to…

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C.G. Jung: “The ‘fish’ was the name of the God who became a man.”

    Jung talks about Pisces, The Fishes, and the Fish Above all it is the connections with the Age of the Fishes which are attested by the fish symbol, either contemporaneously with the gospels themselves (“fishers of men”, fishermen as the first disciples, miracle of loaves and fishes) or immediately afterwards in the post-apostolic…