Introducing Jung Quotes

“One example of the collective psyche’s Shadow is Nazi Germany. But it can be seen in any mass movement, trend or gathering. A crowd at a football match forms a collective ego which casts a Shadow – uncontrolled hooliganism.”
― Maggie Hyde, Introducing Jung: A Graphic Guide

“Although the Ego is the centre of consciousness, it should not be confused with the Self which is the final goal of the individuation process, the wholeness of the personality.”
― Maggie Hyde, Introducing Jung: A Graphic Guide

“Jung’s analytical psychology involves a “structure” and a dynamic of the psyche. By psyche, Jung means the whole of our being, conscious and unconscious. It is innately purposeful or “teleological”, seeking growth, wholeness and equilibrium. It is distinguishable from his concept of the Self, which stands for the goal towards which the psyche is oriented.”
― Maggie Hyde, Introducing Jung: A Graphic Guide

“Archetypes are like primordial ideas, but are not abstract principles. They are numinous, electrically charged with a sense of the sacred.”
― Maggie Hyde, Introducing Jung: A Graphic Guide

“Jung brings modern psyche back to its archaic root. His project is a reorientation of individual psychology within a collective and cosmological frame, that of the one world, unus mundus. His taking up of the occult completes the circle that binds together the modern “discovery of the unconscious” with the ageless foundations of spiritual experience, prophecy and divination.”
― Maggie Hyde, Introducing Jung: A Graphic Guide

“Frequently an unconscious component can externalize and appear from without, and is known as projection. This involves an excessive emotional response to another person or situation, like falling in love or disliking someone intensely. Such powerful emotional responses may indicate that an unconscious content is seeking to burst through into consciousness, but it can only appear as externalized, or projected onto the other person. It is not the other person we love or hate, but part of ourselves projected onto him or her.”
― Maggie Hyde, Introducing Jung: A Graphic Guide

“The psyche is divided into consciousness and the unconscious and the latter serves to compensate the conscious attitude. Whenever the conscious attitude is too one-sided, its unconscious opposite manifests itself autonomously (Greek: auto=self, nomos=law, a law unto itself) to rectify the imbalance. It does this internally through powerful dreams and images, or it can pathologize in disease.”
― Maggie Hyde, Introducing Jung: A Graphic Guide

“Jung’s own constructive practice was to reconnect the individual “with the gods” – that is, with the collective archetypes of the unconscious – so that the healing transcendent function could come into play.”
― Maggie Hyde, Introducing Jung: A Graphic Guide

“Such an archetypal experience of sunrise is common to us all, throughout the history of all times and ages. The soul has a desire for light and an irrepressible urge to rise out of primal darkness. The moment in which light comes is God – it brings redemption, release.”
― Maggie Hyde, Introducing Jung: A Graphic Guide