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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

“Nations have their own peculiar psychology, and in the same way they also have their own particular kind of psychopathology.” – Jung, Civilisation in Transition Every nation carries a collective psyche, prone to both creativity and collapse. Recognizing this is crucial for self-awareness.

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

“A mass always produces a ‘Leader,’ who infallibly becomes the victim of his own inflated ego-consciousness.” (Jung, The Undiscovered Self) Leaders of the masses are prisoners of their own illusions.

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

America does not see that it is in any danger. It does not understand that it is facing its most tragic moment: a moment in which it must make a choice to master its machines or be devoured by them—and since it does not know this, I would not want to hurt it. — C.G. Jung, C.G. Jung Speaks

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Some thoughts are like seeds—underdeveloped and fragile. They first need time to grow into their infant form within the mind before they can be shared. #JungianPsychology #SelfImprovement

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Life demands risk and the anima ensures we take it. Like Eve offering the forbidden fruit, she compels us to fall, to entangle ourselves in existence, because only through struggle and experience does the soul truly live. #CarlJung

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

The anima is not the soul of dogma but an archetype, a primal force shaping our moods, impulses, and spontaneous life. It is not something we create. It exists a priori, a hidden presence guiding the currents of the unconscious. #CarlJung

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

The soul is not a static essence but a living force, quick, twinkling, and ever changing. Like a butterfly, the anima lures us into life, setting traps and illusions to pull us from inertia into experience. Without her, man would rot in idleness. #CarlJung

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Why do people across cultures tell the same myths and dream the same symbols? Because beneath our personal experiences lies the collective unconscious—a universal, inherited layer of the psyche where archetypes shape our thoughts, dreams, and myths across time and culture. #CarlJung

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The hero is both seeker and treasure, father and child. In the unification of archetypes lies the secret of the self. Are you the hero of your own myth? #Individuation #Jung

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The hero’s battle is not with dragons, but with the shadows of the parents—the father who blocks, the mother who consumes. To be reborn, one must face both. Are you ready to fight? #HeroJourney #Jung

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Hidden in the depths of the unconscious lies the "treasure hard to attain"—a shimmering pearl of transformation. Do you dare to seek what the psyche conceals? #Jung #Individuation

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Life calls us to independence, yet the conscious mind often clings to the familiar. To fulfill our destiny, we must gather the libido—the energy of life—and step into the unknown. The psyche thrives in the struggle. #JungianPsychology

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The animus/anima often carries what we fear to embrace in ourselves—boldness, surrender, or decisive action. Projection keeps us safe, but integration sets us free. The call to wholeness demands courage. #Jung #ShadowWork

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The path to independence requires sacrificing the comfort of childhood ties. True growth begins when we confront the unconscious and break free from the "infantile surroundings" that hold us back. #JungianPsychology

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Alchemy is a profession of marginals; those at the edge. Those who live from their own fires, sweating it out, self-sustaining their own temperatures which may be at variance with the collective climate.~James Hillman, 𝘈𝘭𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

“Man must remain conscious of the world of the archetypes, because in it he is still a part of Nature and is connected with his own roots.” C.G. Jung To sever ties with archetypes is to exile ourselves from the primal currents that nourish our being. #CarlJung

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Jung: „The mother-love which is one of the most moving and unforgettable memories of our lives…lovingly tender and yet cruel like fate, joyous and untiring giver of life.” The mother archetype is both solace and storm—a paradox of creation and destruction that shapes the human soul. #CarlJung

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Jung: “Her life is lived in and through others, in more or less complete identification with all the objects of her care.” The woman who sacrifices her individuality to motherhood may lose her soul while clinging to her role. #CarlJung

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Jung: “The mother is the first feminine being with whom the man-to-be comes in contact.” Every man’s perception of the feminine begins with his mother, shaping his anima for better or worse. #CarlJung

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Jung: “In Don Juanism, he unconsciously seeks his mother in every woman he meets.” The man enchanted by Don Juanism is not a lover of women but a captive of an unfulfilled longing for the original feminine. #CarlJung

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Jung: “In the daughter, the mother-complex leads either to a hypertrophy of the feminine side or to its atrophy.” The mother archetype amplifies or suppresses a daughter’s instincts, leaving her either over-identified with care or estranged from it. #CarlJung

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Jung: “The effects of a mother-complex on the son may be seen in the ideology of the Cybele and Attis type: self-castration, madness, and early death.” When the mother archetype dominates, the son’s masculinity is wounded by myths of servitude to a consuming maternal force. #CarlJung

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Recognizing the flaws in your personal shadow is hard enough, but to face its archetypal depths—the absolute evil within—is a rare ordeal that can shatter the foundations of your being. #CarlJung

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Parts of the shadow remain untouchable, resisting every attempt at control. These stubborn fragments hide in the projections we refuse to see—requiring not just insight, but extraordinary moral courage to reclaim.

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Man is an enigma to himself, unable to fully grasp his own psyche. Without an external mirror, self-knowledge remains incomplete—a puzzle unique to human existence. #CarlJung

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

“Even the dictator knows the power of ritual, staging his decrees with pomp and terror. Yet these spectacles, unlike sacred rites, fail to shield the individual from the chaos within.” #CarlJung

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

“Rational insight into the dangers of mass-mindedness is insufficient. Without the force of transcendent experience, the individual is inevitably consumed by the collective.” #CarlJung

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

“The natural man knows that his conscious will can be thwarted at any moment by unseen forces. Hence, religious rituals, dismissed as superstition by rationalists, serve a vital psychological function: restoring balance.” #CarlJung #civilisationintransition

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

“When the State becomes a religion, its rituals—parades, banners, and threats—mimic sacred rites, yet they fail to protect the individual from inner demons. Only true religious experience can restore balance.” #CarlJung

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Thea Euryphaessa @theaeuryphaessa.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Molly Tuby on approaching our inner darkness. From, 'In the Wake of Jung'.

Contents of the psyche which remain unconscious are projected onto the outside world. So each one of us is partly responsible for the evil around us when we fail to get in touch with our own inner darkness. It's no use pretending it is not there: all we achieve is to add yet another stone to the lynching of a scapegoat. The only contribution to universal fraternity, it seems to me, is to reach down into ourselves where we may possibly manage to get into contact with the self common to all humanity, the living archetype of Everyman. On the other hand, paradoxically, as well as ruthlessly throwing light on the buried contents of the personal unconscious, there is also the need for a certain dimming of awareness. We must refrain from thrusting too glaring a light onto those dark and mysterious areas protectively enfolding the seeds of psychic life. Like the hero of many myths, our ego needs to perform periodic night-sea journeys if we are to maintain our links with the hidden source of our being. Ill-timed interpreting interferes with the spontaneity of the creative processes.

By Jungian, Molly Tuby from a book she edited entitled, 'In the Wake of Jung'.

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

The unconscious speaks in symbols, whispers, and hints. It is no less real than the visible world, and its influence extends far beyond what we consciously know. #CarlJung

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Dreams arise from the depths, weaving forgotten fragments and new creations. They’re not nonsense—they are the language of the soul, if only we choose to listen. #CarlJung

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

The unconscious is no bold hypothesis. It’s the quiet foundation of life. Forgotten thoughts, unspoken intuitions, and fleeting dreams—none of it vanishes. It moves beneath us, shaping what we see and do. #CarlJung

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

“Nothing is surely more intangible than fictions and opinions, yet nothing is more effective in the psychophysical realm.” Meaningful words can heal more profoundly than any chemical remedy. #CarlJung

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The ego either swells with delusions of godhood or collapses under the weight of insignificance. Both are failures to confront the deeper Self. How long will you avoid the task of balance? #CarlJung

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

To gaze into still water is to face your psyche: the surface reflects your image, but beneath lies an unfathomable depth. Will you disturb it and find peace—or horror rising from the shadows below? #CarlJung

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

To confront the unconscious is to meet what is eternal within us. Archetypal images, when objectified and understood, change not only our attitude but the very structure of our psyche. #CarlJung

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Dreams connect us to the universal psyche. Through careful observation and creative work—drawing, writing, imagining—we unlock archetypal images that transform our understanding of ourselves and the unconscious. #CarlJung

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

We have built a monumental world round about us… But it is so imposing only because we have spent upon the outside all that is imposing in our natures.” – C.G. Jung Our external achievements mirror our inner depletion. To find true balance, we must reclaim the inner greatness we’ve projected outward

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

“At first we cannot see beyond the path that leads downward to dark and hateful things—but no light or beauty will ever come from the man who cannot bear this sight.” – C.G. Jung No transformation is possible without facing darkness. Beauty is born from the courage to see what we fear most.

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

“It is from the depths of our own psychic life that new spiritual forms will arise.” – C.G. Jung The future of culture lies within us, not in external systems. Only by exploring the unconscious can we discover the spiritual forms of tomorrow.

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

“Whatever values in the visible world are destroyed by modern relativism, the psyche will produce their equivalents.” – C.G. Jung The psyche regenerates what the outer world destroys. Creativity thrives when we let the unconscious rebuild what relativism erodes.

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

“Light is always born of darkness, and the sun never yet stood still in heaven to satisfy man’s longing or to still his fears.” – C.G. Jung True insight comes only by enduring the darkness within. The light we seek must be earned, not granted.

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Esowteric @esowteric.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

“[I]t is becoming ever more obvious that it is not famine, not earthquakes, not microbes, not cancer but man himself who is man’s greatest danger to man, for the simple reason that there is no adequate protection against psychic epidemics ...” ~ Carl Jung, The Undiscovered Self.

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FRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

"For the hero, fear is a challenge and a task, because only boldness can deliver from fear. And if the risk is not taken, the meaning of life is somehow violated, and the whole future is condemned to hopeless staleness." ~ C.G. Jung

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

“The Self reconciles opposites and strengthens the ego. Psychotherapy restores this connection.” (Edinger) True healing begins with acceptance—of oneself and the journey. #jungian

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

“Man was created in God’s image… Ego-Self alienation separates the part from the whole.” (Edinger) The myth of exile is our collective autobiography. #jungian

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

“The ego begins in a state of inflation due to identification with the Self… but reality frustrates inflated expectations, bringing estrangement.” (Edinger) The fall from grace is the price of becoming human. #jungian

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aDoseOfJungian @adoseofjungian.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

We’re born in a state of inflation: ego and Self fused, basking in unconscious wholeness. Myths call it paradise, a golden age. But this divine fullness is also arrogance—like Plato’s round man, we’re gods… until life humbles us.

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Madre Swift Justice @madreswiftjustice.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

“Deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, 'There is something not right,' no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or moral code.” ― Carl Jung

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