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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.
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Like the lapis, the tinctura rubea, and the aurum philosophicum , the squaring of 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.
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.
Jul 20, 2020 · 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. – from Mandalas. C. G.
squaring the circle means you perceive what you can see at this moment in time but there is more there than what you can see. Imagine a triangle who only ever has seen and experienced other triangles or dots or one dimensional lines, trying to perceive a sphere... (If you like reading, read "Flatland" by Abbott. Its a grest metaphor on this topic.
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.
