Correcting the Guiding Function of the Unconscious Thus the unconscious has a symbol-creating function only when we are willing to recognize in it a symbolic element. The products of the unconscious are pure nature. Naturam si sequemur ducem, nunquam aberrabimus, said the ancients. But nature is not, in herself, a guide, for…
Michelle Franton — an artist from Australia — and I started corresponding after she came across an image I had drawn of Kayaking the Unconscious She talked about how her paintings are “irrational”. I asked Michelle to comment on this fish painting of hers: The fish appeared during the painting of one of…
The Rosarium Philosophorum is a sixteenth century alchemical treatise, with a series of twenty woodcuts. Jung’s comments on the first image, the image with the fountain, include the following: This fluid substance, with all its paradoxical qualities, really signifies the unconscious which as been projected on to it. The “sea” is its…
Consciousness, no matter how extensive it may be, must always remain the smaller circle within the greater circle of the unconscious, an island surrounded by the sea; and, like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of living creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming. Psychology of the…
Source of Image: Kayaking the Unconscious “The sea is the favorite symbol for the unconscious, the mother of all that lives.” Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious The Psychology of the Child Archetype Paragraph 298 Collected Works 9.1
Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious. The lake in the valley is the unconscious, which lies, as it were, underneath consciousness, so that it is often referred to as the “subconscious,” usually with the pejorative connotation of an inferior consciousness. Water is the “valley spirit,” the water dragon of Tao, whose…
From the Red Book, Page 55 (translation of text above image:) One word that was never spoken. One light that was never lit up. An unparalleled confusion. And a road without end. Footnote 128, on Page 55: The solar barge is a common motif in ancient Egypt. The barge was seen as the…
[soliloquy id=”6935″] Quotes from Paul Klee Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off; My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will. . —————————————- Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it…
C.G. Jung: “Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will.” Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us the unvarnished, natural truth, and are therefore fitted, as nothing else is, to give us back…