The metaphysical assumptions in Chapter 
allow us to connect results in
mathematics and physics directly to the human mind and
psyche . The physical structure of the mind
and its conscious structure are the
same thing. Jung felt that there was a unity of matter and
psyche related to the archetypal structures
in the psyche and to number. The physical structure of our bodies
was determined by evolution. Some structures were evolved earlier
and others later. More complex structures are built on simpler
ones. Jung recognized that the same is true of our minds.
Archetypes
are the psychic shapers of ideas, images and behavior that have been molded by evolution over the eons. Archetypes are not emotions, thoughts or mental images. They can be sources of all of these. Archetypes do not have a specific meaning. They create meaning.
After C. G. Jung had completed his work on synchronicity in ``Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle,'' he hazarded the conjecture, already briefly suggested in his paper, that it might be possible to take a further step into the realization of the unity of psyche and matter through research into the archetypes of the natural numbers . He even began to note down some of the mathematical characteristics of the first five integers on a slip of paper. But, about two years before his death, he handed the slip over to me with the words: ``I am too old to be able to write this now, so I hand it over to you.'' --- Marie-Louise von Franz, from the preface of Number and Time [32].
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