A “Connection to the Infinite”?
“The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interest upon futilities, and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance. […]
Do Ideas “Have Us”?
What is an idea? Even though we speak of ideas easily and often, for the experience of having ideas is common to us all, no one actually knows what an idea is, in and of itself. We experience them, and we tend to claim them as our own, though truly we know not from whence […]
Why Individuate?
C. G. Jung coined the term “individuation.” The aim and purpose of individuation, for Jung, is the fuller development of who you uniquely are. Who are you? You may find it difficult to answer that simple question. Most people answer it by referring to outward manifestations: their age, the place of origin, their career. They […]
The Personality / Self Axis
Much has been made from Jung’s Analytical Psychology about an ego / self “axis,” originally proposed by Erich Neumann to characterize a crucial axis in childhood development. While that axis may be crucial for childhood development, another axis seems a more likely crucial axis in adulthood: the personality / Self axis. Most of the contemporary […]
Personality vs Ego Identity & Persona
“The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interests upon futilities, and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance.”
C. G. Jung
Personality #1 and Personality #2
“The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interests upon futilities, and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance.”
C. G. Jung
The Birth of Personality
“Personality is Tao.” C. G. Jung
Type Pathologies: Extraverted-feeling
The passage across is usually blocked by conscious resistance to any subjection of the ego to the realities of the unconscious and their determining power. (CW 6, par 631)
Type Pathologies: Introverted Thinking
“The passage across is usually blocked by conscious resistance to any subjection of the ego to the realities of the unconscious and their determining power.” (CW 6, par 631)
Introversion and the Ascent of Humankind
“Psychologically, we have a right on purely empirical grounds to treat the contents of the unconscious as just as real as the things of the outside world, even though these two realities are mutually contradictory and appear to be entirely different in their natures.” (CW 6, par 279)