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
Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.
But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.
Even a lie is a psychic fact.
Nothing is possible without love ... For love puts one in a mood to risk everything.
Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.
From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source of the creative impulse. It is like nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.
In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.
It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.
The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.
Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and darker it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it
There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere.
Healing comes only from that which leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglements with ego....
The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.
Colors express the main psychic functions of man.