ABSTRACT
Samuels (1985) suggested that Jung sometimes disparaged the psychic, imaginal or soul dimension of the material world – the nature within which psyche has its being. Notwithstanding this, Jung discusses the ancient occidental notion of Physis (as Nature and Life) in at least seven volumes of the Collected Works. "Man’s connection with physis, with the material world and its demands, is the cause of his anomalous position: on the one hand he has the capacity for enlightenment, on the other he is in thrall to the Lord of this world’’ (CW11, para. 263).
