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 am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness.
It is indeed time for the clergyman and the psychotherapist to join forces.
A sign is always less than the thing it points to, and a symbol is always more than we can understand at first sight. Therefore we stop at the sign but go on to the goal it indicates; but we remain with the symbol because it promises more than it reveals.
The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.
My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.
We don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems.
It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.
...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.
Invited or not, God is present.
But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity.
It was most essential for me to have a normal life in the real world as a counterpoise to that strange inner world. My family and my profession remained the base to which I could return...
Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, 'There is something not right,' no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code.
Thank God I'm not a Jungian.
Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.