Up: [[Image]] > [!Orbit] [[C. G. Jung]] in *The Red Book* > The wealth of the soul exists in images. (p.232) > [!Orbit] Tony Hoagland > Images could be said to embody the intuitive and unmediated knowledge of the unconscious. > [!Orbit] [[C. G. Jung]] in *The Red Book* > My speech is imperfect. Not because I want to shine with words, but out of the impossibility of finding those words. > I speak in images. With nothing else can I express the words from the depths. (p. 123) > [!Orbit] [[C. G. Jung]] in *Memories, Dreams and Reflections* > To the extent that I managed to translate the emotions into images -- that is to say, find the images which were concealed in the emotions, I was inwardly calmed and reassured. (p. 196) > [!Orbit] Tony Hoagland > The ability of images to carry complex information is tremendous. > [!Orbit] [[C. G. Jung]] in *Collected Works, Vol. 5* > An image can be considered archetypal when it can be shown to exist in the records of human history in identical form and with the same meaning. (p. 77, 114) > [!Orbit] Nick Cave in *Faith, Hope and Carnage* > It requires a certain conviction to trust in a line that is essentially an image, a vision — a leap of faith into the imagined realm. I’m hoping that the image will lead me somewhere else that will be more revealing or truthful than a more literal line would be. What’s interesting, too, is that often, when I write a line that is essentially an image, it does something to me physically to write that line down, to articulate that image. I have a physical reaction to it that signifies its importance in the scheme of things…. Eventually, the image tracks down its meaning, even if it is just emotional. (p. 15) > [!Orbit] [[Lynda Barry]]’s Interest in *Syllabus: Notes of an Accidental Professor* > How do images move and transfer? > Something inside one person takes external form — contained by a poem, story, picture, melody, play, etc — and through a certain kind of engagement, is transferred to the inside of someone else. Art as a transit system for images. (p. 9) > [!Orbit] [[Ashok Bedi]] in New Beginnings course, Jung Platform > When we are lost, the unconscious sends us a whisper. And when we are really lost, it sends us an image. An image that guides us. > [!Orbit] [[Ashok Bedi]] in New Beginnings course, Jung Platform > An image is something that represents the working of your soul, your unconscious in the moment. > [!Orbit] [[Alyssa Polizzi]] > When presented with an image and it starts to speak to us, it is creating a bridge into our depths, a bridge into an aspect of ourself that might be hard to verbalize. Our attempts to rationalize everything, to always have words for it, is a true inflation of consciousness. We have to recognize the different dynamics of how our experience comes forth. Most is expressed through the true language of the unconscious which is metaphor, imagery and symbolism. So when we allow an image to speak to us, there’s something about that nuance that is important. > [!Orbit] [[Rainer Maria Rilke]] > You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter you long before it happens. Just wait for the birth, for the hour of the new clarity. > [!Orbit] Mark Dean in ‘Can Art Heal Us?’ on This Jungian Life > Image isn't something we have before us. We are in it. We are in it at the same time that we look at it. > [!Orbit] [[C. G. Jung]] in *Collected Works, Vol. 13* > Everything of which we are conscious is an image, and that image is psyche… a world in which the ego is contained. (para. 75) > [!Orbit] [[C. G. Jung]] > Image and meaning are identical: and as the first takes shape, so the latter becomes clear. Actually the pattern needs no interpretation; it portrays its own meaning. > [!Orbit] Nora Swan-Foster > Images are bridges between head and heart. > [!Orbit] Robert Hughes, Art Critic > We are now exposed to more images in a day than anyone in the 14th century would have known in a lifetime….Most of it is garbage. Most of it needs excising. Even if we’re fearful that we might be missing something. We are probably not. We have to discard. We have to throw things away, cleanse the doors of our perception and work out what is worth looking at, what is worth remembering, what are the images that matter, what will we retain. > [!Orbit] Meister Eckhart > When the soul wants something to be known, she throws out an image in front of her and steps into it. > [!Orbit] [[James Hillman]] in *Re-Visioning Psychology* > Naming with images and metaphors has an advantage over naming with concepts, for personified namings never become mere dead tools. Images and metaphors present themselves always as living psychic subjects with which I am obliged to be in relation. > [!Orbit] [[Alyssa Polizzi]] in ‘Guiding Principles for Active Imagination’, Artemisian Substack > Touching into our imagination (the realm of images) is a return to the source of our psyche. It is the vital life force that flows from the core of the unconscious. Imagination is not in service to us. But when we consciously choose to engage it, we are impacted. For image holds a depth of complexity that we can barely fathom. It activates our emotional, physical and mental centres — aligning all at once. Image strikes through with intensity where words fail. Its essential aliveness means that we can return, time and again, to the images of our psyche to orient us and contain our experiences in meaningful ways. > [!Orbit] Plato > The soul never thinks without a picture. > [!Orbit] [[James Hillman]] in *The Dream and the Underworld* > Most poetry … is printed on the page in a form that forces the eye to slow itself to the cadence of the images.