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The hero’s journey: beyond adaptation
“The ego is the subject of all successful attempts at adaptation so far as these are achieved by the will.” Carl Jung, CW 9ii, para 11 For Carl Jung, the … Continue reading →
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Carl Jung: hero as triumph of consciousness over the unconscious
“The hero’s main feat is to overcome the monster of darkness: it is the long-hoped-for and expected triumph of consciousness over the unconscious. Day and light are synonyms for consciousness, …...
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Carl Jung: the child is the precious fruit of Mother Nature
“Abandonment, exposure, danger, ete. are all elaborations of the “child’s” insignificant beginnings and of its mysterious and miraculous birth. This statement describes a certain psychic experience of...
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Carl Jung: the child image represents the future
“One of the essential features of the child motif is its futurity. The child is potential future. Hence the occurrence of the child motif in the psychology of the individual … Continue reading →
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Child Archetype: Unity
If “the child motif appears in the form of a unity, we are dealing with an unconscious and provisionally complete synthesis of the personality, which in practice, like everything unconscious, …...
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Carj Jung: the child represents the urge toward Self-realization
“It is a striking paradox in all child myths that the “child” is on the one hand delivered helpless into the power of terrible enemies and in continual danger of … Continue reading →
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Carl Jung: the child motif express integration of opposites
“In the psychology of the individual there is always, at such moments, an agonizing situation of conflict from which there seems to be no way out-at least for the conscious … Continue reading →
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Carl Jung: the child archetype as wholeness
“Psychologically speaking… the “child” symbolizes the pre-conscious and the post-conscious essence of man. His pre-conscious essence is the unconscious state of earliest childhood; his post-conscious...
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Carl Jung: Atman and the Child Archetype
“The size and invincibility of the “child” are bound up in Hindu speculation with the nature of the atman [from a Sanskrit word that means 'the Self'] , which corresponds … Continue reading →
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Child Motif: plurality of children
“In the manifold phenomenology of the “child” we have to distinguish between the unity and plurality of its respective manifestations…. if the plurality occurs in normal people, then it is … Continue...
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Child Motif: gnomes, homunculi, dwarfs,
“In the manifold phenomenology of the “child” we have to distinguish between the unity and plurality of its respective manifestations. Where, for instance, numerous homunculi, dwarfs, boys, etc.,...
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Carl Jung: the child and the Golden Egg
“The phenomenology of the “child’s” birth always points back to an original psychological state of non-recognition, i.e., of darkness or twilight, of non-differentiation between subject and object, of...
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Carl Jung: sometimes the Kore slithers down to the animal kingdom
“Sometimes the Kore- and mother-figures slithers down altogether to the animal kingdom, the favorite representatives then being the cat, the snake, the bear, else some black monster of the underworld …...
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Carl Jung: the circle as archetype of the Deity
“We must step back not quite 300 years and find ourselves among scientists and philosophers of nature who are seriously discussing the enigma of the Quadratura Circuli [squared circle]. This …...
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The hero’s journey: beyond adaptation
“The ego is the subject of all successful attempts at adaptation so far as these are achieved by the will.” Carl Jung, CW 9ii, para 11 For Carl Jung, the … Continue reading →
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Carl Jung: hero as triumph of consciousness over the unconscious
“The hero’s main feat is to overcome the monster of darkness: it is the long-hoped-for and expected triumph of consciousness over the unconscious. Day and light are synonyms for consciousness, …...
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Carl Jung: the child is the precious fruit of Mother Nature
“Abandonment, exposure, danger, ete. are all elaborations of the “child’s” insignificant beginnings and of its mysterious and miraculous birth. This statement describes a certain psychic experience of...
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The Hero as Soul Image: aims and instincts
In Symbols of Transformation, Carl Jung says that the hero myth “symbolizes the ideas, forms, and forces which grip and mold the soul.” (para. 259) The hero is an image … Continue reading →
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