To sum up: numbers appear to represent both an attribute of matter and the unconscious foundation of our mental process. For this reason, number forms, according to Jung, that particular element that unites the realms of matter and psyche. It… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
Number, as it were, lies behind the psychic realm as a dynamic ordering principle, the primal element of which Jung called spirit. As an archetype, number becomes not only a psychic factor, but more generally, a world-structuring factor. In other… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
“My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them.” — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
It is as if something somewhere were 'known' in the form of images - but not by us. — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements. — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
The passionate reactions of people to a painting, the exclamation, 'Oh, this is wonderful,' may, even if meant in a positive way, entirely destroy… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
Dreams are like letters from God. Isn't it time you answered your mail? — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing which appears… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
“Jung said that to be in a situation where there is no way out or to be in a conflict where there is no solution is the classical beginning of the process of individuation. It is meant to be a situation without solution; the unconscious wants the hopeless conflict in order to put ego consciousness up against the wall, so… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share
Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of . . . mature people is of crucial importance. — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
Jung even asserted that he would have no objection to regarding the psyche as a quality of matter and matter as a concrete aspect… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
To sum up: numbers appear to represent both an attribute of matter and the unconscious foundation of our mental process. For this reason, number… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
“Number ... should not be understood solely as a construction of consciousness, but also as an archetype and thus as a constituent of nature… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
“The philosophical system with which we try to interpret contents of the unconscious is open to still more, and that is the way in… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
