“Many things arousing devotion or feelings of awe, as for instance… the moon, can be mother-symbols.” (Carl Jung, 9i, para. 156)![]()
Mother archetype: moon
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Mother Image: secret and hidden
“the mother archetype may connote anything secret, hidden…” (Carl Jung, CW 9i, para. 158)![]()
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Mother archetype: Paradise
“Other symbols of the mother in a figurative sense appear in things representing the goal of our longing for redemption, such as Paradise, the Kingdom of God, the Heavenly Jerusalem.” … Continue reading ![]()
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Mother archetype: the goddess
“Then there are what might be termed mothers in a figurative sense. To this category belongs the goddess, and especially the Mother of God, the Virgin, and Sophia. Mythology offers … Continue reading ![]()
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Kali: ‘the loving and terrible mother’
In India, “the loving and terrible mother” is the paradoxical Kali. (Carl Jung, CW 9i, para 158)![]()
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Mother Image: vessels
The mother archetype “can be attached to … various vessels.” (Carl Jung, 9i, para. 157) Notice also the ouroboros, in the form of a dragon, in this alchemical drawing. The … Continue reading ![]()
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Carl Jung: Earth Mother as “Venus” of Brassempouy
“In form [the Earth Mother] not infrequently resembles the neolithic ideal of the “Venus” of Brassempouy.” (Carl Jung, CW 9i, para. 312) This carving, called the Venus” of Brassempouyis, about 25,000 … Continue reading ![]()
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Carl Jung: Earth Mother as Venus of Willendorf
“In form [the Earth Mother] not infrequently resembles the neolithic ideal of the “Venus” of … Willendorf.” (Carl Jung, CW 9i, para. 312) The Venus of Willendorf is estimated to have … Continue reading ![]()
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Carl Jung: Earth Mother as sleeper of Hal Saflieni
“In form [the Earth Mother] not infrequently resembles the neolithic ideal of the sleeper of Hal Saflieni.” (Carl Jung, CW 9i, para. 312)![]()
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Carl Jung: the Earth Mother sometimes appears with multiple breasts
“The Earth Mother…Now and then I have come across multiple breasts like those of a sow.” (Carl Jung, CW 9i, para. 312)![]()
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Carl Jung: Earth Mother plays an important part in the woman’s unconscious
“The Earth Mother plays an important part in the woman’s unconscious, for all her manifestations are described as “powerful.” This shows that in such cases the Earth Mother element in … Continue reading ![]()
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Carl Jung: the child is the precious fruit of Mother Nature
“Abandonment, exposure, danger, ete. are all elaborations of the “child’s” insignificant beginnings and of its mysterious and miraculous birth. This statement describes a certain psychic experience of a creative nature, … Continue reading ![]()
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Our battle with sacred mother
For Carl Jung, the archetypal theme of the hero’s journey represents the transcendence of consciousness. He says: “ “The hero’s main feat is to overcome the monster of darkness: it … Continue reading ![]()
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Carl Jung: the child image represents the future
“One of the essential features of the child motif is its futurity. The child is potential future. Hence the occurrence of the child motif in the psychology of the individual … Continue reading ![]()
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Child Archetype: Unity
If “the child motif appears in the form of a unity, we are dealing with an unconscious and provisionally complete synthesis of the personality, which in practice, like everything unconscious, … Continue reading ![]()
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Carj Jung: the child represents the urge toward Self-realization
“It is a striking paradox in all child myths that the “child” is on the one hand delivered helpless into the power of terrible enemies and in continual danger of … Continue reading ![]()
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Carl Jung: the child motif express integration of opposites
“In the psychology of the individual there is always, at such moments, an agonizing situation of conflict from which there seems to be no way out-at least for the conscious … Continue reading ![]()
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Carl Jung: the child archetype as wholeness
“Psychologically speaking… the “child” symbolizes the pre-conscious and the post-conscious essence of man. His pre-conscious essence is the unconscious state of earliest childhood; his post-conscious essence is an anticipation by … Continue reading ![]()
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Carl Jung: Atman and the Child Archetype
“The size and invincibility of the “child” are bound up in Hindu speculation with the nature of the atman [from a Sanskrit word that means 'the Self'] , which corresponds … Continue reading ![]()
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Child Motif: plurality of children
“In the manifold phenomenology of the “child” we have to distinguish between the unity and plurality of its respective manifestations…. if the plurality occurs in normal people, then it is … Continue reading ![]()
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