Literary Discussions

Carl Jung wrote a small monograph entitled "On the Nature of the Psyche" in which he said that matter has a psychoid aspect and evolves towards consciousness while psyche had a material aspect (Freud's death wish) that seeks to return to an inert state. In the 1980s I asked a Jungian analyst which work of Jung's was most important and he instantly named that monograph. Jung states that "if one day humans damage Mars with a rocket then one may say that Mars was damaged by the psychoid aspect of matter."