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Nov 18, 2017 · Squaring the circle was an important image for the Renaissance painter Leonardo da Vinci. We can see this image in the so-called “Vitruvian Man,” the naked man doing jumping jacks inside a squared circle. Leonardo’s fascination with this image helps us to understand what Jung says of the image as an archetype of wholeness.
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Feb 18, 2020 · Squaring the circle was a problem that greatly exercised medieval minds. It is a symbol of the opus alchymicum, since it breaks down the original chaotic unity into the four elements and then combines them again in a higher unity. Unity is represented by a circle and the four elements by a square.
So discovering the exact area of a circle is almost impossible to to inexact nature of pi as well as the inexact nature of infinity. Taking this into Jungian and even alchemical terms, squaring the circle is one way of expressing the “coincidentia oppositorium,” the unity of polar opposites.
We discuss the ideas and life of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung (pronounced YOONG), and all things Jungian. We like to discuss symbols, myths, dreams, culture, alchemy, and Jung's unique contributions to psychology such as archetypes, personality types, dream analysis, the collective unconscious, and synchronicity.
Analysis of Symbols. Ouroboros (the serpent that swallows its tail) is the antique symbol of Totality seen as self-sufficient, the all-encompassing, as self-created, the monad etc. The symbol analysis is a basic component of Jung's analytical method. He devoted this subject a great number of works among which the Psychology and Alchemy .
Carl Jung Quote. The 'squaring of the circle' is one of the many archetypal motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams and fantasies. But it is distinguished by the fact that it is one of the most important of them from the functional point of view. Indeed, it could even be called the archetype of wholeness.
Mar 10, 2016 · In this quote below, Swiss Gnostic, Cal Jung talks about how the problem of squaring the circle represents unity represented by a circle and the four elements by a square. The goal of the Gnostic through alchemy is to become the “One” by means of distillations so that the “soul” or “spirit” shall be extracted in its purest state.
