A Concordance by Thornton Ladd
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Personal and impersonal attributes include the following characteristics:
A sense of humor is that truly “divine” attribute of man which alone befits him to maintain his soul in freedom (Schopenhauer)
“Big” or significant dreams have certain characteristics distinguishing them from other dreams:
The positive aspect of the first type of complex, namely the overdevelopment of the maternal instinct, is identical with that well-known image of the mother which has been glorified in all ages and all tongues, i.e., mother-love:
Logos may be understood as the paternal principle where there is no consciousness without discrimination of the opposites. The Logos eternally struggles to extricate itself from the primal warmth and primal darkness of the maternal womb, i.e., from unconsciousness, hence:
If we apply the same method to the modern mandalas that people have seen in dreams or visions, or have developed through “active imagination,” we reach the conclusion that mandalas are expressions of a certain attitude which we cannot help calling “religious”:
Professor Jung: You should define what you mean by mysticism. Let us assume that you mean people who have mystical experience:
So far as one can make out from dreams, the unconscious in its “deliberations” proceeds in an instinctive way rather than along rational lines. The latter way is the prerogative of consciousness, which selects with reason and knowledge. But the unconscious is guided chiefly by instinctive trends, represented by corresponding thought-formsthe archetypes:
A consideration of Greek mythology must start with at least a brief look at the myths of creation or cosmogony. There are several versions of how the cosmos came into existence
An archetypal image can manifest in human psychology consciously or unconsciously, or, as is so often the case, some mixture of the two. Problems are always a consequence of the unconscious manifestation of an archetype. That is what counter-transference isan unconscious manifestation of the coniunctio, the most profound and highly charged archetype in the whole pantheon. The coniunctio is the symbolic expression of the goal of the opus and that is why Jung titled his book The Mystery of the Coniunctio:
Outside the narrower field of professional psychology these figures [of shadow, syzygy, Self] meet with understanding from all who have any knowledge of comparative mythology:
Although dogma, like mythology in general, expresses the quintessence of inner experience and thus formulates the operative principles of the objective psyche, i.e., the collective unconscious, it does so by making use of a language and outlook that have become alien to our present day of thinking:
Let us first take up the subject of the paradoxical Yahwistic God-image:
In CW9.2: par. 163 , Jung begins his chapter on the historical importance of the fish with a discussion of the birth of the Messiah. He writes:
Jung tells us that according to certain early texts, the original sea monster was split into two:
Gnostic tradition says that when the highest God saw what miserable, unconscious creatures these human beings were whom the demiurge had created, who were not even able to walk upright, he immediately got the work of redemption under way:
The dual mother may be replaced by the motif of dual birth, which has attained a lofty significance in various religions:
Transformation of a god through man can be seen in the birth of Mondamin, the corn or maize god:
The archetype of the Self has, functionally, the significance of a ruler of the inner world, i.e., of the collective unconscious:
In the case of Zagreus, we saw that the bull is identical with the god and that the bull-sacrifice is a divine sacrifice. But the animal is, as it were, only a part of the hero; he sacrifices only his animal attribute, and thus symbolically gives up his instinctaulity:
An event which raises the question, Why does the birth of a hero always have to take place under such extraordinary circumstances?
The worship of woman and worship of the soul are factors which had a profound effect on the psychic culture of manmore specifically:
The worship of woman and worship of the soul are factors which had a profound effect on the psychic culture of manmore specifically:
Love may be effectively used as a means for gaining the upper hand.Love and good behaviour are, from the standpoint of the power-instinct, known to be a choice means to this end. Virtuousness often serves to compel recognition from others