Marie-Louise von Franz - Number Quotes

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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.

Marie-Louise von Franz

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.

Marie-Louise von Franz

Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness; from it you can best tap the unconscious constellation. This probably why it is used in most mantic methods.

Marie-Louise von Franz

Number, as it were, lies behind the psychic realm as a dynamic ordering principle, the primal element of which Jung called spirit. As an archetype, number becomes not only a psychic factor, but more generally, a world-structuring factor. In other words, numbers point to a background reality in which psyche and matter are no longer distinguishable.

Marie-Louise von Franz

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

Marie-Louise von Franz