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Vincent Jacobs
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“The self, moreover, is an archetype that invariably expresses a situation within which the ego is contained. Therefore, like every archetype, the self cannot be localized in an individual ego-consciousness, but acts like a circumambient atmosphere to which no definite limits can be set, either in space or in time. (Hence the synchronistic phenomena so often associated with activated archetypes.)”
— Sep 15, 2025 11:27AM
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Vincent Jacobs
is on page 195 of 362
“Wherever… we find symbols indicative of psychic wholeness, we encounter the naïve idea that they stand for God.”
— Dec 29, 2025 01:06AM
Vincent Jacobs
is on page 194 of 362
“Psychologically… the idea of God's ἀγνωσία, or of the ἀνεννόητος θεός, is of the utmost importance, because it identifies the Deity with the numinosity of the unconscious.”
— Nov 15, 2025 05:24AM
Vincent Jacobs
is on page 193 of 362
“Union of opposites is equivalent to unconsciousness, so far as human logic goes, for consciousness presupposes a differentiation into subject and object and a relation between them. Where there is no "other," or it does not yet exist, all possibility of consciousness ceases.“
— Oct 02, 2025 04:06AM
Vincent Jacobs
is on page 189 of 362
“When, in treating a case of neurosis, we try to supplement the inadequate attitude (or adaptedness) of the conscious mind by adding to it contents of the unconscious, our aim is to create a wider personality whose centre of gravity does not necessarily coincide with the ego, but which, on the contrary, as the patient's insights increase, may even thwart his ego-tendencies.”
— Oct 01, 2025 06:01AM
Vincent Jacobs
is on page 189 of 362
“The myth of the ignorant demiurge who imagined he was the highest divinity illustrates the perplexity of the ego when it can no longer hide from itself the knowledge that it has been dethroned by a supraordinate authority.“
— Oct 01, 2025 05:57AM
Vincent Jacobs
is on page 189 of 362
“These phenomena not only prove the effectiveness of the annunciation, but provide the necessary conditions in which the annunciation can take effect. In other words, the symbols represent the prototypes of the Christ-figure that were slumbering in man's unconscious and were then called awake by his actual appearance in history and, so to speak, magnetically attracted.”
— Oct 01, 2025 05:48AM
Vincent Jacobs
is on page 186 of 362
“The snake does in fact symbolize "cold-blooded," inhuman contents and tendencies of an abstractly intellectual as well as a concretely animal nature: in a word, the extra-human quality in man.”
— Sep 30, 2025 12:39AM
Vincent Jacobs
is on page 186 of 362
“Theriomorphic symbols are very common in dreams and other manifestations of the unconscious. They express the psychic level of the content in question; that is to say, such contents are at a stage of unconsciousness that is as far from human consciousness as the psyche of an animal.”
— Sep 30, 2025 12:37AM
Vincent Jacobs
is on page 183 of 362
“…the alchemical fish symbolism leads direct to the lapis,… to the self. We now have a new symbol in place of the fish: a psychological concept of human wholeness… something that corresponds, an inner experience, an assimilation of Christ into the psychic matrix… This, compared with the mute and unconscious fish, marks a distinct increase in conscious development.”
— Sep 29, 2025 01:33AM
Vincent Jacobs
is on page 182 of 362
2/2 “The connecting link here is the archetype of the God-man, which on the one hand became historical reality in Christ, and on the other, being eternally present, reigns over the soul in the form of a supraordinate totality, the self.”
— Sep 29, 2025 01:21AM
