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Eros is a questionable fellow and will always remain so
Eros bobbin, ca. 470 BC–450 BC. Eros is a questionable fellow and will always remain so . . . He belongs on one side to man’s primordial animal nature which will endure as long as man has an animal...
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The great problems of life — sexuality, of course, among others — are always...
The Temptation of Adam and Eve Michelangelo Sistine Chapel The great problems of life — sexuality, of course, among others — are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious....
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Every man carries within him the eternal image of woman….
> Dante and Beatrice Henry Holiday 1883 Every man carries within him the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite feminine image. This image is...
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It is only possible to live the fullest life when we are in harmony with...
Lascaux cave painting “There is a thinking in primordial images, in symbols which are older than the historical man, which are inborn in him from the earliest times, eternally living, outlasting all...
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The descent into the depths will bring healing…
from The Red Book The descent into the depths will bring healing. It is the way to the total being, to the treasure which suffering mankind is forever seeking, which is hidden in the place guarded by...
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The whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the...
Sistine Chapel Michaelangelo The collective unconscious – so far as we can say anything about it at all-appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of...
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The crucial dream anticipating my encounter with alchemy came around 1926…
A 17th century depiction of the Emerald Tablet by Heinrich Khunrath, 1606 (The Tablet is also known as Smaragdine Table, Tabula Smaragdina, or The Secret of Hermes, a text purporting to reveal the...
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Carl Jung: “Every man carries within him the eternal image of woman…”
Every man carries within him the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite feminine image. This image is fundamentally unconscious, an hereditary factor of...
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Carl Jung: “The fatal compulsion one feels so acutely when one is in love…”
We constantly overestimate the existing content of consciousness, and it is a great and surprising discovery when we find that what we had supposed to be the final peak is nothing but the first step...
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Mircea Eliade: “Myth narrates a sacred history; it relates an event that took...
The Osnabrück Altarpiece; 1370s Unknown German painter “Myth narrates a sacred history; it relates an event that took place in primordial Time… relates how something was produced, began to be…” Myth...
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