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“Nations have their own peculiar psychology, and in the same way they also have their own particular kind of psychopathology.”

– Jung, Civilisation in Transition

Every nation carries a collective psyche, prone to both creativity and collapse. Recognizing this is crucial for self-awareness.

“A mass always produces a ‘Leader,’ who infallibly becomes the victim of his own inflated ego-consciousness.” (Jung, The Undiscovered Self)

Leaders of the masses are prisoners of their own illusions.

America does not see that it is in any danger. It does not understand that it is facing its most tragic moment: a moment in which it must make a choice to master its machines or be devoured by them—and since it does not know this, I would not want to hurt it.

— C.G. Jung, C.G. Jung Speaks

Some thoughts are like seeds—underdeveloped and fragile. They first need time to grow into their infant form within the mind before they can be shared. #JungianPsychology #SelfImprovement

Life demands risk and the anima ensures we take it. Like Eve offering the forbidden fruit, she compels us to fall, to entangle ourselves in existence, because only through struggle and experience does the soul truly live. #CarlJung

The anima is not the soul of dogma but an archetype, a primal force shaping our moods, impulses, and spontaneous life. It is not something we create. It exists a priori, a hidden presence guiding the currents of the unconscious. #CarlJung

The soul is not a static essence but a living force, quick, twinkling, and ever changing. Like a butterfly, the anima lures us into life, setting traps and illusions to pull us from inertia into experience. Without her, man would rot in idleness. #CarlJung

Why do people across cultures tell the same myths and dream the same symbols?

Because beneath our personal experiences lies the collective unconscious—a universal, inherited layer of the psyche where archetypes shape our thoughts, dreams, and myths across time and culture. #CarlJung

The hero is both seeker and treasure, father and child. In the unification of archetypes lies the secret of the self. Are you the hero of your own myth? #Individuation #Jung

The hero’s battle is not with dragons, but with the shadows of the parents—the father who blocks, the mother who consumes. To be reborn, one must face both. Are you ready to fight? #HeroJourney #Jung

Hidden in the depths of the unconscious lies the "treasure hard to attain"—a shimmering pearl of transformation. Do you dare to seek what the psyche conceals? #Jung #Individuation

Life calls us to independence, yet the conscious mind often clings to the familiar. To fulfill our destiny, we must gather the libido—the energy of life—and step into the unknown. The psyche thrives in the struggle. #JungianPsychology

The animus/anima often carries what we fear to embrace in ourselves—boldness, surrender, or decisive action. Projection keeps us safe, but integration sets us free. The call to wholeness demands courage. #Jung #ShadowWork

The path to independence requires sacrificing the comfort of childhood ties. True growth begins when we confront the unconscious and break free from the "infantile surroundings" that hold us back. #JungianPsychology

Alchemy is a profession of marginals; those at the edge. Those who live from their own fires, sweating it out, self-sustaining their own temperatures which may be at variance with the collective climate.~James Hillman, 𝘈𝘭𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺

“Man must remain conscious of the world of the archetypes, because in it he is still a part of Nature and is connected with his own roots.” C.G. Jung

To sever ties with archetypes is to exile ourselves from the primal currents that nourish our being. #CarlJung

Jung: „The mother-love which is one of the most moving and unforgettable memories of our lives…lovingly tender and yet cruel like fate, joyous and untiring giver of life.”

The mother archetype is both solace and storm—a paradox of creation and destruction that shapes the human soul. #CarlJung

Jung: “Her life is lived in and through others, in more or less complete identification with all the objects of her care.”

The woman who sacrifices her individuality to motherhood may lose her soul while clinging to her role. #CarlJung

Jung: “The mother is the first feminine being with whom the man-to-be comes in contact.”

Every man’s perception of the feminine begins with his mother, shaping his anima for better or worse. #CarlJung

Jung: “In Don Juanism, he unconsciously seeks his mother in every woman he meets.”

The man enchanted by Don Juanism is not a lover of women but a captive of an unfulfilled longing for the original feminine. #CarlJung

Jung: “In the daughter, the mother-complex leads either to a hypertrophy of the feminine side or to its atrophy.”

The mother archetype amplifies or suppresses a daughter’s instincts, leaving her either over-identified with care or estranged from it. #CarlJung

Jung: “The effects of a mother-complex on the son may be seen in the ideology of the Cybele and Attis type: self-castration, madness, and early death.”

When the mother archetype dominates, the son’s masculinity is wounded by myths of servitude to a consuming maternal force. #CarlJung

Aion by Carl Gustav Jung

Recognizing the flaws in your personal shadow is hard enough, but to face its archetypal depths—the absolute evil within—is a rare ordeal that can shatter the foundations of your being. #CarlJung

Aion by C.G.Jung

Parts of the shadow remain untouchable, resisting every attempt at control. These stubborn fragments hide in the projections we refuse to see—requiring not just insight, but extraordinary moral courage to reclaim.

Man is an enigma to himself, unable to fully grasp his own psyche. Without an external mirror, self-knowledge remains incomplete—a puzzle unique to human existence. #CarlJung

“Even the dictator knows the power of ritual, staging his decrees with pomp and terror. Yet these spectacles, unlike sacred rites, fail to shield the individual from the chaos within.” #CarlJung

“Rational insight into the dangers of mass-mindedness is insufficient. Without the force of transcendent experience, the individual is inevitably consumed by the collective.” #CarlJung

“The natural man knows that his conscious will can be thwarted at any moment by unseen forces. Hence, religious rituals, dismissed as superstition by rationalists, serve a vital psychological function: restoring balance.” #CarlJung #civilisationintransition

“When the State becomes a religion, its rituals—parades, banners, and threats—mimic sacred rites, yet they fail to protect the individual from inner demons. Only true religious experience can restore balance.” #CarlJung

Contents of the psyche which remain unconscious are projected onto the outside world. So each one of us is partly responsible for the evil around us when we fail to get in touch with our own inner darkness. It's no use pretending it is not there: all we achieve is to add yet another stone to the lynching of a scapegoat. The only contribution to universal fraternity, it seems to me, is to reach down into ourselves where we may possibly manage to get into contact with the self common to all humanity, the living archetype of Everyman. On the other hand, paradoxically, as well as ruthlessly throwing light on the buried contents of the personal unconscious, there is also the need for a certain dimming of awareness. We must refrain from thrusting too glaring a light onto those dark and mysterious areas protectively enfolding the seeds of psychic life. Like the hero of many myths, our ego needs to perform periodic night-sea journeys if we are to maintain our links with the hidden source of our being. Ill-timed interpreting interferes with the spontaneity of the creative processes. By Jungian, Molly Tuby from a book she edited entitled, 'In the Wake of Jung'.

Molly Tuby on approaching our inner darkness.

From, 'In the Wake of Jung'.