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Friday, September 30, 2011
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Incisive changes in history are generally attributed exclusively to external causes. It seems to me, however, that external circumstances often serve merely as occasions for a new attitude to life and the world, long prepared in the unconscious, to become manifest. CW 8 - par 594
Thursday, September 29, 2011
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
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Psychic existence is the only category of existence of which we have immediate knowledge, since nothing can be known unless it first appears as a psychic image. Only psychic existence is immediately verifiable. To the extent that the world does not assume the form of a psychic image, it is virtually nonexistent. CW 11 - par 769
Monday, September 26, 2011
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The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one which is consciously is consciously realized, is tremendous. In the first case consciousness nowhere intervenes; the end remains as dark as the beginning. In the second case so much darkness comes to light that the personality is permeated with light, and the consciousness necessarily gains in scope and insight. The encounter between conscious and unconscious has to ensure that the light which shines in the darkness is not only comprehended by the darkness, but comprehends it. CW 11 - par 756
Friday, September 23, 2011
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
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Monday, September 19, 2011
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The small world of the child, the family milieu, is the model for the big world. The more intensely the family sets its stamp on the child, the more he will be emotionally inclined, as an adult, to see in the great world his former small world. Of course this must not be taken as a conscious intellectual process. On the contrary, the patient feels and sees the difference between now and then, and tries as well as he can to adapt himself. Perhaps he will even believe himself perfectly adapted, since he may be able to grasp the situation intellectually, but that does not prevent his emotions from lagging far behind his intellectual insight. CW 4 - par 312
Friday, September 16, 2011
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
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Monday, September 12, 2011
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Friday, September 9, 2011
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Thursday, September 8, 2011
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
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Not for a moment dare we succumb to the illusion that an archetype can be finally explained and disposed of. Even the best attempts at explanation are only more or less successful translations into another metaphorical language. (Indeed, language itself is only an image.) The most we can do is to dream the myth onwards and give it a modern dress. And whatever explanation or interpretation does to it, we do it to our own souls as well, with corresponding results for our own well-being. The archetype--let us never forget--is a psychic organ present in all of us. CW 9 - par 271
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
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Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be. In this latter case, unfortunately, there is no scientific test that would prove the discrepancy between perception and reality. Although the possibility of gross deception is infinitely greater here than in our perception of the physical world, we still go on naively projecting our own psychology into our fellow human beings. In this way everyone creates for himself a series of more or less imaginary relationships based essentially on projection. CW 8 - par 507
Friday, September 2, 2011
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The more highly developed men of our time do not want to be guided by a creed or a dogma; they want to understand. So it's not surprising if they throw aside everything they do not understand.; and religious symbols, being the least intelligible of all, are generally the first to go overboard. The sacrifice of the intellect demanded by positive belief is a violation against which the conscience of the more highly developed individual rebels. CW 4 - par 434
Thursday, September 1, 2011
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No one develops his personality because somebody tells him that it would be useful or advisable to do so. Nature has never yet been taken in by well-meaning advice. The only thing that moves nature is causal necessity, and that goes for human nature too. Without necessity nothing budges, the human personality least of all. It is tremendously conservative, not to say torpid. Only acute necessity is able to rouse it. The developing personality obeys no caprice, no command, no insight, only brute necessity; it needs the motivating force of inner or outer fatalities. Any other development would be no better than individualism. That is why the cry of "individualism" is a cheap insult when slung at the natural development of personality. CW 17 - par 293
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