~Carl Jung, CW 8, Para 380, Psychic processes therefore behave like a scale along which consciousness “slides.”, At one moment it finds itself in the vicinity of instinct, and falls under its influence; at another, it slides along to the other end where spirit predominates and even assimilates the instinctual processes most opposed to it. But since the development of consciousness requires the withdrawal of all the projections we can lay our hands on, it is not possible to maintain any non-psychological From a low hill in the Athi plains of East Africa I once watched the vast herds of wild animals grazing in soundless stillness, as they had done from time immemorial, touched only by the breath of a primeval world. Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking. The layman can hardly conceive how much his inclinations, moods, and decisions are influenced by the dark forces of his psyche, and how dangerous or helpful they may be in shaping his destiny. Jung The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. As long as we are still submerged in nature we are unconscious, and we live in the security of instinct which knows no problems. They meet with something fatal and then they suddenly realize what they are doing. You can find them spread out in the newspapers, in books, rumours, and ordinary social gossip. Now, if there was one to highlight, it would be The Red Book (or Liber Novus). At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions. Carl Jung: Ten Quotations on Individuation. Unconscious contents connect it backward with the physiological states on the one hand and archetypal data on the other. Coming generations will have to take account of this momentous transformation if humanity is not to destroy itself through the might of its own technology and science. 53 : 408. Whether in the last analysis, and from a superhuman point of view, this is an advantage or a calamity we are not in a position to decide. These personalities inhabit the collective unconscious, from generation to generation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0twgYcVtvG0&t=43s, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIeLBOryFr0&t=24s, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aqH8TT8hHY&t=57s, I am eaten up by patients, so that I can hardly breathe. ~Carl Jung, CW 13, Para 286. The spontaneity of the act of thinking does not lie, causally, in his conscious mind, but in his unconscious. The pain of this loneliness is the vengeance of the gods, for never again can he return to mankind. Carl Gustav Jung Short Biography. Jung, Carl. Thus it also occurs within; in other words, it becomes conscious. ~Carl Jung, CW 8, Para 387. “Psychic forces” have far more to do with the realm of the unconscious. The reason why consciousness exists, and why there is an urge to widen and deepen it, is very simple: without consciousness things go less well. To him the world is a more or less fluid phenomenon within the stream of his own fantasy, where subject and object are undifferentiated and in a state of mutual interpenetration. They know what happens to them, but they do not know what they do or say. ~Carl Jung, CW 11, Para 745. On the one hand, emotion is the alchemical fire whose warmth brings everything into existence and whose heat burns all superfluities to ashes {pmnes superfiuitates comburii) . These are people who are abnormally unconscious, that is, in a primitive state. Even among absolutely civilized Europeans there is a disproportionately high number of abnormally unconscious individuals who spend a great part of their lives in an unconscious state. The world is as it ever has been, but our consciousness undergoes peculiar changes. True, a higher consciousness is exposed to dangers undreamt of by the primitive, but the fact remains that the conscious man has conquered the earth and not the unconscious one. ~Carl Jung, CW 11, Para 111. to restore the balance. Dream analysis stands or falls with [the hypothesis of the unconscious]. This is only another piece of intellectual presumption. Every individual needs revolution, inner division, overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, but not by forcing them upon his neighbors under the hypocritical cloak of Christian love or the sense of social responsibility or any of the other beautiful euphemisms for unconscious urges to personal power. 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