Carl Gustav Jung
Carl Gustav Jung
Carl Gustav Jungwas a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. His work has been influential not only in psychiatry but also in philosophy, anthropology, archaeology, literature, and religious studies. He was a prolific writer, though many of his works were not published until after his death...
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Error is just as important a condition of life as truth
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Everything in the unconscious seeks outward manifestation, and the personality too desires to evolve out of its unconscious conditions and to experience itself as a whole.
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The Christian West considers man to be wholly dependent upon the grace of God, or at least upon the Church as the exclusive and divinely sanctioned earthly instrument of man's redemption. The East (India), however, insists that man is the sole cause of his higher development, for it believes in "self- liberation.
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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents
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Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light but making the darkness conscious.
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The word ''belief'' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.
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An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as a young man who is unable to embrace it.
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Thank God I'm Jung and not a Jungian.
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Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
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The term 'religion' designates the attitude peculiar to a consciousness which has been changed by experience of the numinosum
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Psychology does not know what good and evil are in themselves; it knows them only as judgments about relationships.
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...my evenings are taken up very largely with astrology, I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth.
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My aim was to show that delusions and hallucinations were not just specific symptoms of mental disease but also had a human meaning.
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Only what is really oneself has the power to heal.