34 Quotes About Collective-unconscious

I like to use the term alchemy, which is the soul of the world, or those of Jung's collective unconscious. You connect with a space where everything is.

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

I'm just trying to rid the world of all these fevered egos that are tainting our collective unconscious...

To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

The great problems of life—sexuality, of course, among others—are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are really balancing or compensating factors which correspond with the problems life presents in actuality. This is not to be marveled at, since these images are deposits representing the accumulated experience of thousands of years of struggle for adaptation and existence.

The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection, in which are reflected the mythologems, i.e., the archetypes. In this vision astrology and alchemy, the two classical functionaries of the psychology of the collective unconscious, join hands.

The world of gods and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious inside me.

In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.