C.G. Jung: “The severe pattern imposed by a circular image of this kind compensates the disorder of the psychic state.”

 

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, or by a concentric arrangement of the disordered multiplicity and contradictory and irreconcilable elements.

This is evidently an attempt at self-healing on the part of Nature, which does not spring from conscious reflection but from an instinctive impulse.”

 

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