Carl Jung
Carl 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...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth26 July 1875
CityKesswil, Switzerland
CountrySwitzerland
I have gradually learned to be cautious even in disbelief
The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance on Our SOULS.
Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.
It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox.
Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.
I do not believe...I know.
The symbols of the self arise from the depths of the body.
We want to have certainties and no doubts- results and no experiments- without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt and results only thorough experiment.
I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way.
Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole, both inwardly and outwardly.
Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.
Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of a potential system of adapted psychic functioning.