Looking for a reference to a quote by Jung

sunflower27

Hi all


Can anyone tell me where the following quote by Jung comes from:


“Synchronicity is the coming together of inner and outer events in a way that cannot be explained by cause and effect and that is meaningful to the observer.” –Carl Jung


I can't seem to find a detailed reference.


Any help much appreciated.

dar100

Likely it's from this book

http://www.amazon.com/Synchronicity-Connecting-Principle-Collected-Bollingen/dp/0691150508

Two second search of google found it

sunflower27

dar100 wrote: »

Likely it's from this book

http://www.amazon.com/Synchronicity-Connecting-Principle-Collected-Bollingen/dp/0691150508

Two second search of google found it

As it is for an academic paper, unfortunately 'likely' isn't good enough.


I have done countless 2-second searches on google, but I need the specific place it is from - including page number.


Thanks for your help anyway, although I am aware how Google works.

solomafioso

Did you try using google scholar or jStor?

scholar.google.com

www.jstor.org

sunflower27

Yes, I tried google scolar.

The quote is EVERYWHERE but trying to actually reference it is damn tricky

solomafioso

sunflower27 wrote: »

Yes, I tried google scolar.

The quote is EVERYWHERE but trying to actually reference it is damn tricky

Are you sure that's the actual quote? It could be a case that it has been misappropriated or "Chinese whispered" in to something that resembles the original.

dar100

sunflower27 wrote: »

As it is for an academic paper, unfortunately 'likely' isn't good enough.


I have done countless 2-second searches on google, but I need the specific place it is from - including page number.


Thanks for your help anyway, although I am aware how Google works.

It is from that book, do you expect to have it come up on the exact page/paragraph for you?

You will need to search the literature in order to find it, expecting someone to actually find the page number of the book for you, is quite unrealistic. Given that it is for an academic paper, you will need the page number, appropriate book title etc, as you rightly pointed out.

Alternatively, if you're not willing to search through the book, perhaps you should use another quote, that said, good look in your search:)

sunflower27

dar100 wrote: »

It is from that book, do you expect to have it come up on the exact page/paragraph for you?

You will need to search the literature in order to find it, expecting someone to actually find the page number of the book for you, is quite unrealistic. Given that it is for an academic paper, you will need the page number, appropriate book title etc, as you rightly pointed out.

Alternatively, if you're not willing to search through the book, perhaps you should use another quote, that said, good look in your search:)

I expected that given the many, many times I saw the quote mentioned on web pages that I would be able to find the book mentioned that it was in so from that I could source the page number.


I have been able to source most quotes effectively this way, so it is not beyond the realm of possibilities that I can source a quote in google books and get the page number only knowing the book it is in.


I never asked anyone here to take the time to find the page number for me. I am quite happy to do my own research, but thought someone may know given the popularity of the quote what book/essay it came from.

Your tone appears quite condescending - there really is no need to be this way. You offered help and it was not what I was after. No need to take it so personally.

solomafioso

See the thing is all these other sites appear when you use the quotation trick on google. That is, if you want to search for an exact string of text you just put quotation marks, eg "So foul and fair a day I have not seen".

There is another trick where you can use the minus symbol followed by site names or just terms to omit results. Eg "put quote here" -wikipedia will search for the quote and take out any wikipedia links.

You'd think that in today's day and age searching for a quote from a book would be a piece of cake, unfortunately you get the odd noodle-scratcher.

Just keep up the slog OP!

dar100

sunflower27 wrote: »

I expected that given the many, many times I saw the quote mentioned on web pages that I would be able to find the book mentioned that it was in so from that I could source the page number.


I have been able to source most quotes effectively this way, so it is not beyond the realm of possibilities that I can source a quote in google books and get the page number only knowing the book it is in.


I never asked anyone here to take the time to find the page number for me. I am quite happy to do my own research, but thought someone may know given the popularity of the quote what book/essay it came from.

Your tone appears quite condescending - there really is no need to be this way. You offered help and it was not what I was after. No need to take it so personally.

Often people infer a tone from a written format, often this is wrong

sunflower27

Well, we shall agree to disagree.

dar100

sunflower27 wrote: »

Well, we shall agree to disagree.

Jung, Carl G. (1993) [1952]. Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle. Bollingen, Switzerland: Bollingen Foundation. ISBN 978-0-691-01794-5.

Thats were the quote comes from, you will need to find the page number, personally, I'd just make it up

DM addict

If you can get your hands on a digital copy of the book then you can do a CTRL+F for the quote.

JuliusCaesar

dar100 wrote: »

Jung, Carl G. (1993) [1952]. Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle. Bollingen, Switzerland: Bollingen Foundation. ISBN 978-0-691-01794-5.

Thats were the quote comes from, you will need to find the page number, personally, I'd just make it up

And as I am a marker of academic papers, I check references. Minus marks for no reference, minus minus marks for not a real reference.


I know students.





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dar100

JuliusCaesar wrote: »

And as I am a marker of academic papers, I check references. Minus marks for no reference, minus minus marks for not a real reference.


I know students.





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But teacher, it is the real reference:)

Valmont

sunflower27 wrote: »

As it is for an academic paper, unfortunately 'likely' isn't good enough.


I have done countless 2-second searches on google, but I need the specific place it is from - including page number.


Thanks for your help anyway, although I am aware how Google works.

Just because you are writing an academic paper doesn't mean you can't reference books!

Humria

You could cite it as a secondary reference if you cannot find the original text, you would need to find another reference that cites it of course. You may need to paraphrase rather than give a direct quote though.


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