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Quotes from Number and Time — Marie-Louise von Franz

1915–1998 Germany

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Nevertheless, this individual aspect [just-so-ness] of number appears to contain the mysterious factor that enables it to organize psyche and matter jointly.

Number and Time (1974)

It [number] preconsciously orders both psychic thought processes and the manifestations of material reality.

Number and Time (1974)

To sum up: numbers appear to represent both an attribute of matter and the unconscious foundation of our mental process. For this reason, number forms, according to Jung, that particular element that unites the realms of matter and psyche. It is “real” in a double sense, as an archetypal image and as a qualitative manifestation in the realm of outer-world experience.

Number and Time (1974)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Marie-Louise von Franz (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.