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In "The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious," Carl Jung explores the idea that human experiences are shaped by universal symbols and themes, which he refers to as archetypes. These archetypes reside within the collective unconscious, a shared part of the human psyche that connects all people across cultures and time. Jung argues that understanding these archetypes can lead to deeper insights into our behaviors and motivations, as they influence our dreams, myths, and artistic...

That the gods die from time to time is due to man's sudden discovery that they do not mean anything, that they are made by human hands, useless idols of wood and stone.

But the very fact that this process is unconscious gives us the reason why man has thought of everything except the psyche in his attempts to explain myths. He simply didn't know that the psyche...

there is good reason for supposing that the archetypes are the unconscious images of the instincts themselves, in other words, that they are patterns of instinctual behaviour.

When, for instance, a highly esteemed professor in his seventies abandons his family and runs off with a young red-headed actress, we know that the gods have claimed another victim.

The mirror does not flatter, it faithfully shows whatever looks into it; namely, the face we never show to the world because we cover it with the persona, the mask of the actor.

If it be true that there can be no metaphysics transcending human reason, it is no less true that there can be no empirical knowledge that is not already caught and limited by the a priori structure...

Were it not for the leaping and twinkling of the soul, man would rot away in his greatest passion, idleness.

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

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