"When the Greeks fell in #love they were modest enough not to say, 'I have fallen in love,' but expressed it more accurately by saying: 'The god of love shot an arrow at me.'" ~Marie-Louise von Franz, Ph.D., Jungian analyst, Alchemy: An Introduction, p. 118 (1/4)
"And that is how it really happens—one suddenly has the painful sting which one has not made oneself, one finds oneself being shot at. So one can therefore speak of the archetype of the god of #love." ~Marie-Louise von Franz, Ph.D., Jungian analyst, Alchemy, p. 118 (2/4)
"If you go into the history of #Eros you will find that he is a variation of #Hermes; the Eros of antiquity is similar to Hermes Kyllenios. In olden times when he was a fertility god of Boetia he was represented exactly like the priapic Hermes statues" ~Marie-Louise von Franz 3/4
"You can therefore say that the Greeks meant a variation of the god #Hermes. It is a symbol of the Self, or of the totality, which makes the #projection. I think that is correct. If I find myself in a projection situation, that is an arrangement by the Self." ~M.L. von Franz 4/4
"[I]n general we can say that it is always the unconscious, or some aspect of it, which produces the #projection. It is the Self or a god. It is always a god who produces the projection, which means that it is always an #archetype, the ego complex does not do it." ~M.L. von Franz
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