Assorted Jung, from his chapter on introverted sensing, the same place Aphrodite's quote originates:
As a matter of fact, the subject perceives the same things as everybody else, only, he never stops at the purely objective effect, but concerns himself with the subjective perception released by the objective stimulus. Subjective perception differs remarkably from the objective. It is either not found at all in the object, or, at most, merely suggested by it; it can, however, be similar to the sensation of other men, although not immediately derived from the objective behaviour of things. It does not impress one as a mere product of consciousness -- it is too genuine for that. But it makes a definite psychic impression, since elements of a higher psychic order are perceptible to it. This order, however, does not coincide with the contents of consciousness. It is concerned with presuppositions, or dispositions of the collective unconscious, with mythological images, with primal possibilities of ideas. [...]
Subjective sensation apprehends the background of the physical world rather than its surface. The decisive thing is not the reality of the object, but the reality of the subjective factor, i.e. the primordial images, which in their totality represent a psychic mirror-world. [...]
To this consciousness the present moment is improbable. [...]
Now, taking as read Jung's stuff about the introverted attitude being wrongly dismissed if spoken of as the merely subjective, the subjective being as real as the objective... it rather looks as if introverted sensing has the same pretension as introverted intuition to being the collective unconscious, the a priori. The description of what, ultimately, is. Not what was, or what used to be, but what eternally... is.