notes from "On the nature of the Psyche" C.G. Jung

"...the realization of the shadow, the growing awareness of the inferior part of the personality which should not be twisted into an intellectual activity, for it has far more the meaning of a suffering and a passion that implicate the whole man." Jung, On the nature of the Psyche Collected Works Vol 8 Par 409 

" Since psyche and matter are contained in one and the same world, and moreover are in continuous contact with on another and ultimately rest on irrepresentable, transcendental factors, it is not only possible but fairly probable, even, that psyche and matter are tow different aspects of one and the same thing." Jung, On the nature of the Psyche Collected Works Vol 8 Par 418

"...the position of the archetype would be located beyond the psychic sphere, analogous to the position of the physiological instinct, which is immediately rooted in the stuff of the organism and, with its psychoid nature, forms the bridge to matter in general."Jung, On the nature of the Psyche Collected Works Vol 8 Par 420



"the problems of analytical psychology...led to conclusions that astonished even me. I fancied I was working along the best scientific lines, establishing facts, observing , classifying, describing causual and functional relations only to discover in the end that I had involved myself in a net of reflections which extended far beyond natural science and ramify into the fields of philosophy, theology, comparative religion, and the humane sciences in general." Jung, On the nature of the Psyche Collected Works Vol 8 Par 421


"...we must emphasize that the smallest alteration in the psychic factor, if it be an alteration of principal, is of the utmost significance as regards our knowledge of the world and the picture we make of it. The integration of unconscious content into consciousness...is...an alteration of principal in that it does away wtih the sovereignty of the subjective ego-consciousness and confronts it with unconscious contents." Jung, On the nature of the Psyche Collected Works Vol 8 Par 422

"In point of effectiveness, the religious outlook of medieval man corresponds roughly to the attitude induced in the ego by the integration of unconscious contents, with the difference that in the latter case susceptibility to environmental influences and unconsciousness are replaced by scientific objectivity and conscious knowledge. but so far as religion, for the contemporary consciousness, still means, if anything, a creed, and hence, a collectively accepted system of religious statements neatly codified as dogmatic precepts, it has closer affinities with collective consciousness even though its symbols express the once-operative archetypes. So long as the communal consciousness presided over by the Church is objectively present, the psyche...enjoy[s] a certain level of equilibrium...it constitutes a sufficiently effective defense against inflation of the ego. But once Mother Church and her motherly Eros fall into abeyance, the individual is at the mercy of any passing collectivism and the attendant mass psyche...succub[ing] to social or national inflation...with the same psychic attitude that once bound him to the Church." Jung, On the nature of the Psyche Collected Works Vol 8 Par 426

"Archetypes, so far as we can observe and experience them at all, manifest themselves only through their ability to organize images and ideas, and this is always an unconscious process which cannot be detected until afterwards. By assimilating ideational material whose provenance in the phenomenal world is not to be contested, they become visible and psychic."Jung, On the Nature of the Psyche CW Vol 8 Par 440