Jung on God and Libido.
"Psychologically, God is the name of a representation-complex which is grouped around a strong feeling (the sum of libido).
Properly, the feeling is what gives character and reality to the complex.
If one honors God, the sun or the fire, then one honors one's own vital force, the libido.
It is as Seneca says: "God is near you, he is with you, in you." God is our own longing to which we pay divine honors."
"“Compare especially the words of the Gospel of John: “I and my
Father are one” (John x: 30). “He that hath seen me hath seen the
Father” (John xiv: 9). “Believe me that I am in the Father, and the
Father in me” (John xiv: 11). “I came forth from the Father, and
am come into the world; again, I leave the world, and go to the Father”
(John xvi: 28). “I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to
my God, and your God” (John xx: 17).”
Excerpt From
Psychology of the Unconscious.
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Much scholarship exists on the Johannine corpus, more particularly on the language of John’s Gospel. Raymond Brown’s work is a tour de force.