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Marie-Louise von Franz (4 January 1915 – 17 February 1998) was a Swiss Jungian psychologist and scholar, renowned for her psychological interpretations of fairy tales and of alchemical manuscripts.

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A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis are apt to behave in a manner uncongenial and destructive towards themselves as well as others.

Behave, Compared, Might, Neurosis, Neurotic, People

Jung even asserted that he would have no objection to regarding the psyche as a quality of matter and matter as a concrete aspect of the psyche, provided that the psyche was understood to be the collective unconscious.

Collective, Collective Unconscious, Matter, Quality, Understood

Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of. . . mature people is of crucial importance.

Balance, Existence, Importance, Mature, Neurosis, People

The child is an inner possibility, the possibility of renewal.

Child, Children, Inner, Possibility, Renewal

The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements.

Coincides, Measurement, Mind, Order, Physicist

My God, these Feeling types!. . . Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them.

People, Feelings, Sensitive, Types, God

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 is "real" in a double sense, as an archetypal image and as a qualitative manifestation in the realm of outer-world experience.

Forms, Foundation, Numbers, Qualitative, Real, Sense

In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing which appears in man as the mystery of an unusual skill or capacity. It is something divine, a spark of the divinity in him, not his own possession or achievement, but a miracle.

Identical, Men, Miracle, Mystery, Skill, Skills

As physics is a mental reconstruction of material processes, perhaps a physical reconstruction of psychic processes is possible in nature itself.

Material, Physical, Physics, Process, Psychics, Reconstruction

Synchronicity. . . means a 'meaningful coincidence' of outer and inner events that are not themselves causally connected. The emphasis lies on the word 'meaningful'.

Meaningful, Lying, Events, Word, Coincidence

It is as if something somewhere were 'known' in the form of images - but not by us.

Form, Ifs, Images, Known

Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience.

Events, Moments, Individual, Constitute, Greater, Synchronistic

People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss about unnecessary things, are too passionately in love with somebody who is not worth so much attention, and so on. There is a kind of floating charge of energy in them which is not attached to its right object and therefore tends to apply exaggerated dynamism to the wrong situation.

Attention, Creative, Creativity, Dynamism, Kind, People

You see, in the image of Aquarius, it's a man who pours water into the fish. Now the fish is the unconscious. It is not enough just to have it. We have to actively turn towards it and support it so that it then helps us.

Men, Aquarius, Water, Image, Helps, Pours

If we can stay with the tension of opposites long enough —sustain it, be true to it—we can sometimes become vessels within which the divine opposites come together and give birth to a new reality.

Become, Give, Long, Opposites, Reality, Vessels

If a man devotes himself to the instructions of his own unconscious, it can bestow this gift [of renewal], so that suddenly life, which has been stale and dull, turns into a rich unending inner adventure, full of creative possibilities

Adventure, Bestow, Inspirational, Life, Possibilities, Rich

One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power. . . If someone has a creative gift and out of laziness, or for some other reason, doesn't use it, the psychic energy turns to sheer poison. That's why we often diagnose neuroses and psychotic diseases as not-lived higher possibilities.

Creativity, Neuroses, Power, Psychics, Speaking, Use

There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.

Loneliness, People, Risk, Human, Experience

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 words, numbers point to a background reality in which psyche and matter are no longer distinguishable.

Lying, Reality, Numbers, Element, Ordering

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