# Quote — Marie-Louise von Franz, Psyche and Matter

> …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.

- Author: [Marie-Louise von Franz](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marie-louise-von-franz.md)
- Book: [Psyche and Matter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marie-louise-von-franz/psyche-and-matter.md)
- Page: 40
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> The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements.

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

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> 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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