Carl Jung Unc Quotations

One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.

It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox.

Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious

The world of gods and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious inside me.

The God-image in man was not destroyed by the Fall but was only damaged and corrupted ('deformed'), and can be restored through God's grace. The scope of the integration is suggested by the descent of Christ's soul to hell, its work of redemption embracing even the dead. The psychological equivalent of this is the integration of the collective unconscious which forms an essential part of the individuation process.

The problem of synchronicity has puzzled me for a long time, ever since the middle twenties, when I was investigating the phenomena of the collective unconscious and kept on coming across connections which I simply could not explain as chance groupings or "runs." What I found were "coincidences" which were connected so meaningfully that their "chance" concurrence would represent a degree of improbability that would have to be expressed by an astronomical figure.

Hitler's unconscious seems to be female.

The psyche is a natural phenomenon. All aspects of the psyche, even those which seem pathological or destructive, actually serve the function of furthering our psychological development.

...The Western 'God-image' is a representation of the collective unconscious, an archetype of the psyche that undergoes a continual process of transformation...The God image evolves through its relationship to humanity. Whoever knows God has an effect on 'him'. For the individual, knowing God, is the process of recognizing and assimilating the pressured and paradoxical contents of the self, which come to consciousness- seek incarnation- within the ego.

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything.

The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection, in which are reflected the mythologems, i.e., the archetypes. In this vision astrology and alchemy, the two classical functionaries of the psychology of the collective unconscious, join hands.

All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.

The greatest sin is to be unconscious.

Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious.

The angel personifies something new arising from the deep unconscious.

Our unconscious is the key to our life's pursuits.

The great problems of life—sexuality, of course, among others—are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are really balancing or compensating factors which correspond with the problems life presents in actuality. This is not to be marveled at, since these images are deposits representing the accumulated experience of thousands of years of struggle for adaptation and existence.

The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things.

In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious

I cannot define for you what God is. I can only say that my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern has at its disposal the greatest of all his energies for transformation and transfiguration of his natural being. Not only the meaning of his life but his renewal and his institutions depend on his conscious relationship with this pattern of his collective unconscious.

May you bring unconditional love and infinite peace.