# Psyche and Matter

- Author: [Marie-Louise von Franz](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marie-louise-von-franz.md)
- Quotes: 4
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/marie-louise-von-franz/psyche-and-matter

## Quotes

> The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements.

p. 269 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marie-louise-von-franz/psyche-and-matter/the-mathematical-forms.md)

> As physics is a mental reconstruction of material processes, perhaps a physical reconstruction of psychic processes is possible in nature itself.

p. 208 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marie-louise-von-franz/psyche-and-matter/as-physics-is-a-mental.md)

> 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.

p. 216 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marie-louise-von-franz/psyche-and-matter/number-as-it-were.md)

> …Jung even asserted that he would have no objection to regarding the psyche as a quality of matter and matter as a concrete aspect of the psyche, provided that the psyche was understood to be the collective unconscious.

p. 40 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marie-louise-von-franz/psyche-and-matter/jung-even-asserted.md)