Carl Jung: “The “advantage” of projection consists in the fact that one has apparently got rid of the painful conflict once and for all.” The “advantage” of projection consists in the fact that one has apparently got rid of the painful conflict once and for all. Somebody else or external circumstances now have the responsibility….
Carl Jung: The unconscious person projects on his neighbor The blinder love is, the more it is instinctual, and the more it is attended by destructive consequences, for it is a dynamism that needs form and direction. Therefore a compensatory Logos has been joined to it as a light that shines in the…
Carl Jung: The Hook of Projection It frequently happens that the object offers a hook to the projection, and even lures it out. This is generally the case when the object himself (or herself) is not conscious of the quality in question: in that way it works directly upon the unconscious of the projicient….
Duccio di Buoninsegna: The Temptation of Christ on the Mountain, 1308−11 Jung defines his concept of projection “Projection means the expulsion of a subjective content into an object; it is the opposite of introjection. Accordingly, it is a process of dissimilation, by which a subjective content becomes alienated from the subject and is, so…
Gustave Moreau: Salome Dancing before Herod (detail) Carl Jung talks about the projection making factor behind the anima… What, then, is this projection-making factor? The East calls it the “Spinning Woman” Maya, who creates illusion by her dancing. Had we not long since known it from the symbolism of dreams, this hint from the Orient…
Carl Jung, on the Effect of Projection The effect of projection is to isolate the subject from his environment, since instead of a real relation to it there is now only an illusory one. Projections change the world into the replica of one’s own unknown face. In the last analysis, therefore, they lead to an…
Plate 4 Splendor Solis Marriage as a Psychological Relationship Regarded as a psychological relationship, marriage is a highly complex structure made up of a whole series of subjective and objective factors, mostly of a very heterogeneous nature. As I wish to confine myself here to the purely psychological problems of marriage, I must disregard…
“It is required that the vessel be not only round but egg-shaped.” From Psychology and Alchemy: “For the alchemists the vessel is something truly marvellous: a vas mirabile. Maria Prophetissa says that the whole secret lies in knowing about the Hermetic vessel. “Unum est vas” (the vessel is one) is emphasized…
“Now, one of the concepts that plays the greatest role in alchemy is that of the prima materia, the prime or basic matter, the one stuff from which everything else is made. People felt that if they could find out about that and it is still a topic in modern physics they could find…