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208 concepts · 385 definitions
- self16
- Jesus Christ15
- evil10
- anima8
- shadow8
- archetype7
- ego7
- self-knowledge7
- God-image6
- consciousness5
- devil5
- fish5
- myth5
- animus4
- antichrist4
- God4
- projection4
- psyche4
- snake4
- symbol4
- unconscious4
- wholeness4
- alchemy3
- dogma3
- dream3
- individuation3
- light3
- love3
- matter3
- nature3
- neurosis3
- perfection3
- privatio boni3
- quaternity3
- redemption3
- satan3
- affect2
- alchemist2
- church2
- death2
- Demiurge2
- faith2
- gnosticism2
- good2
- good and evil2
- hermetic vessel2
- inflation2
- instinct2
- Kingdom of Heaven2
- man2
- mandala2
- mass hysteria2
- messiah2
- metaphysics2
- mistake2
- modernity2
- name2
- opposite2
- personality2
- prima materia2
- psychic reality2
- psychology2
- Renaissance2
- soul2
- spirit2
- truth2
- world2
- ambivalence1
- animal1
- animosity1
- Annunciation1
- anthropos1
- axiom of Maria1
- Barabbas1
- Bible1
- Brahman1
- chaos1
- choice1
- Christianity1
- circular reasoning1
- civilization1
- cognition1
- collective unconscious1
- common man1
- compensation1
- creation myth1
- criticism1
- crucifix1
- daemon1
- decision1
- dependence1
- disappointment1
- distinction1
- divinity1
- doctrine1
- dogmatism1
- double1
- emotion1
- eros1
- evolution1
- experiment1
- fairy tale1
- faithfulness1
- fate1
- father1
- feeling1
- fire1
- fish symbol1
- free spirit1
- free will1
- gods1
- great mother1
- great work1
- health1
- Heisenberg uncertainty principle1
- hell1
- hellfire1
- heresy1
- hermaphrodite1
- highest good1
The Self (n.) is a God-image, or at least cannot be told apart from one — so he who knows himself knows God.
The Self (n.) is the smallest of the small, needing to be built up by our care as though it did not exist — yet it is older than the ego and the secret spiritus rector of our fate.
The Self (n.) can only be described in antinomies: unique and once-only as individuality, universal and eternal as a God-image.
The Self (n.) is the magnetic north that gives the traveller his bearings on the sea of the world — wholeness as the goal of the "archetic appetite."
Jesus Christ (n.) cast off his shadow from himself — and the cut-off counterpart is easily recognized in the figure of Antichrist.
Jesus Christ (n.) is sometimes shown with breasts in medieval iconography — and when the Lord kissed Mechthild's soul, he had, contrary to expectation, no beard.
Jesus Christ (n.) dissolved as a personality was at the same time assimilated and integrated into the human psyche — the result seen in the growth of personality and of consciousness.
Jesus Christ (n.) found the spirit bound to the bed like unto himself; unloosed, the spirit embraced and kissed him, he kissed it, and they became one.
Evil (n.) cannot be an "accidental lack of perfection" — say that of the concentration camps and it sounds like mockery.
Evil (n.) is at work everywhere, and only an infantile person pretends otherwise — the more unconscious he is, the more the devil drives him.
Evil (n.) will no longer be written off as a privation of good in the coming aeon — and the problem can be solved not by philosophy, economics or politics but only by the individual.
Evil (n.) is mere deprivation of good: all things that are, by the very fact that they are, are good; in so far as they are deprived of good, they neither are good nor exist.
The Anima (n.) is a man's greatest danger and therefore demands his greatest — and if he has it in him, she will get it.
Anima (n.) are literally the father and mother of all the disastrous entanglements of fate.
Anima (n.) are a supreme pair of opposites not hopelessly divided by logic but drawn together by attraction — promising union and making it possible.
The Anima (n.) is black but comely — the Shulamite, the Moor's concubine, the nigredo of the alchemists.
The Shadow (n.) is the easiest archetype to admit, because a Sunday sermon, your wife, or the tax collector is always ready to remind you.
The Shadow (n.) is what gives a light figure body and humanity; without it the self is only half real.
The Shadow (n.) can be realized only through a relation to a partner — only there do its projections go to work.
The Shadow (n.) is double, like the two thieves: on one side regrettable weakness, on the other healthy instinctivity and the prerequisite for higher consciousness.
Self-knowledge (n.) is still rare, and is usually paid for in advance with a neurosis, if not something worse.
Self-knowledge (n.) means knowing what, not who, you are — on what you depend, to whom you belong, and for what end you were made.
Self-knowledge (n.) is not the ego knowing itself — that is a dog chasing its own tail — but a morally exacting study of what, not who, one is.
Self-knowledge (n.) is the greatest of all disciplines, said Clement — for when a man knows himself, he knows God.
An Archetype (n.) is nothing other than the image of instinct in man — the unconscious organizer of our ideas.
An Archetype (n.) had been written in the heavens by projection long before the time was fulfilled for it to appear in a personality.
An Archetype (n.) reveals its hidden nucleus only by perpetually circling round it, changing name and guise without end.
An Archetype (n.) waits, long ready, for the time to be fulfilled — then fantasy does the rest.
The Ego (n.) was already seen in the second century as the exponent of an all-embracing totality, the self — a thought not all psychologists are familiar with even today.
The Ego (n.) is not the centre of the personality but only the centre of the lit field — a point of reference, not the whole house.
The Ego (n.) is the subjective consciousness produced in each individual out of the one universal, objective collective unconscious.
The Ego (n.) caught in a conflict of duties that cannot be solved is a suffering onlooker: it decides nothing and must yield unconditionally to a decision made elsewhere.
The God-image (n.) is not invented but an experience that comes upon man spontaneously; it changes consciousness, and consciousness changes it.
The God-image (n.) that is incomplete produces a monstrous double, as a man's split-off contents mix with his shadow into an antagonist.
The God-image (n.) is always anthropomorphic, in a more or less subtle way.
The God-image (n.) lives, Augustine held, not in the body but where the understanding is, where the power of investigating truth is.
The Devil (n.) is most dangerous when least recognized — who would suspect him under names like public welfare, lifelong security, peace among nations?
The Devil (n.) too works for what suits him and strives after perfection — only in evil; yet no one would call his striving essentially good.
The Devil (n.) was born from the mixing of the four parts as “archon of this Aeon”: God governs this world as much by the devil as by the Son, holding both in his hands.
The Devil (n.) entered the world as God's real counterpart only with Christ.