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

Source: Number and Time (1974), p. 53

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Swiss psychologist and scholar 1915–1998

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Context: 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.

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Source: Number and Time (1974), p. .52

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