It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has an ineradicable tendency to get rid of everything he does not know and does not want to know about himself by foisting it off on somebody else. Nothing has a more diverse and alienating effect upon society than this moral complacency and lack of responsibility, and nothing promotes understanding and rapprochement more than the mutual withdrawal of projections.
Carl JungSynchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.
Carl JungIt is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going. Not consciously, of courseโfor consciously he is engaged in bewailing and cursing a faithless world that recedes further and further into the distance. Rather, it is an unconscious factor which spins the illusions that veil his world. And what is being spun is a cocoon, which in the end will completely envelop him.
Carl JungAbout a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.
Carl JungBut what if I should discover that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most impudent of all offenders, yea the very fiend himselfโ that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I myself am the enemy who must be lovedโ what then?
Carl JungI hold the view that the alchemistโs hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful stone, was only in part an illusion, an effect of projection; for the rest it corresponded to certain psychic facts that are of great importance in the psychology of the unconscious. As is shown by the texts and their symbolism, the alchemist projected what I have called the process of individuation into the phenomena of chemical change.
Carl Jung