The self is to the ego as the sun is to the earth.

What it means

The ego is the part of you that says 'I' and makes plans. The self is the larger whole the ego circles around. The ego is not the center of the system, and things go better when it knows that.

The source

"The self is to the ego as the sun is to the earth." Carl Jung said it in Two Essays (1928), II, Part II, ch. IV 'The Mana Personality'. Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.

"It has, I trust, long since become apparent to the attentive reader that the self has as much to do with the ego, as the sun with the earth. They are not interchangeable factors."

H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928, Two Essays (1928), II, Part II, ch. IV 'The Mana Personality'. Text read at archive.org.

Who said it

Carl Jung (1875–1961). Swiss psychiatrist who broke with Freud and founded analytical psychology. He mapped the persona, the shadow, the collective unconscious and the lifelong work of becoming yourself, which he called individuation. Our lines come only from his writings published before 1931, in our own translations from the German or in English translations of the time.

Questions

What does "The self is to the ego as the sun is to the earth." mean?

The ego is the part of you that says 'I' and makes plans. The self is the larger whole the ego circles around. The ego is not the center of the system, and things go better when it knows that.

Who said "The self is to the ego as the sun is to the earth."?

Carl Jung (1875–1961). Source: Two Essays (1928), II, Part II, ch. IV 'The Mana Personality'.

What is the original wording?

It has, I trust, long since become apparent to the attentive reader that the self has as much to do with the ego, as the sun with the earth. They are not interchangeable factors (H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928). Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.

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