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Carl Jung

Carl Jung

1875 – 1961

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Addiction (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠bad in all its forms, be it narcotics or idealism.

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The Alchemist (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠of the mind that the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.

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The Alchemist (n.) was ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not actually aiming after the production of gold, but was also equally concerned with the projection of the process of individuation into the phenomena of chemical change.

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The Alter ego (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the other in each of us whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves.

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The Analysand (n.) is, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in the majority, not a believer, but those who had lost their faith.

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The Angel (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a strange genus. They are precisely what they are and cannot be anything else. They are themselves soul-less beings who represent nothing but the thoughts and intuitions of their lord.

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The Archetype (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a basic pattern that generates all our psychological and emotional complexity, usually without our conscious knowledge.

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The Archetype (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a primordial, mythological figure or image that constantly recurs in the course of history and appears wherever creative fantasy is freely expressed. In each of these images there is a little piece of human psychology and human fate, a remnant of the joys and sorrows that have been repeated countless times in our ancestral history.

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The Archetype (n.) is, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in spite of their conservative nature, not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit would be dead. But it lives inasmuch as it splits and unites again. There is no energy without opposites!.

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The Archetype (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠like a deeply carved bed of a river that is dried up only because the water has deserted it, though it may return at any time.

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The Archetype (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠as numerous as are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the forms of images filled with content, but at first only as forms without content, representing merely the possibility of a certain type of perception and action.

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Art (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.

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Art's (n.) social ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠significance lies in how it educates the spirit of the age. It does so by reaching back into the primordial image in the unconscious, conjuring up the forms in which the age is more lacking, bringing them into relation with conscious values, and thereby transforming them until they can be accepted by the minds of his contemporaries according to their powers.

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Art (n.) intuitively ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.

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Art's (n.) secret ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠of effectiveness is to be found in a return to that level of experience at which it is man who lives, and not the individual.

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The Art of life (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts and only very few people are artist in life.

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The Artist (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him.

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Artist (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠one who, for the sake of humanity, is ready to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.

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Astrology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a projection. We find the psychological in the constellations. This is not because these factors derive from the stars, but rather, and somewhat oddly, that they are merely in a relation of synchronicity with them.

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Astrology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.