Impressiveness Quote A.

“As Jung points out at the end of ‘On the Nature of the Psyche,’ the concept of energy is originally derived from the primitive concept of energeia or mana, which simply means the extreme impressiveness of something. Whenever something is enormously or intensely impressive and therefore affects one psychologically, i.e., makes a psychological impact, then primitives say it is mana, or mugu. Therefore the original concept of energy was more the idea of psychological intensity.” Marie-Louise von Franz, Synchronicity and Divination