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
Envy does not allow humanity to sleep.
No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.
Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious.
I have always tried to make room for anything that wanted to come to me from within.
Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas
An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors.
The world begins to exist when the individual discovers it.
Commendation heals; condemnation destroys.
Learn your techniques well and be prepared to let them go when you touch the human soul.
Only one who has risked the fight with the dragon and is not overcome by it wins the "treasure hard to attain." He alone has a genuine claim to self-confidence, for he has faced the dark ground of his self and thereby has gained himself. This experience gives him faith and trust.
Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since it is based on the greatest possible accumulation of depotentiated social units.
Twelve experts gathered in one room equal one big idiot.
In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when under the influence of repressed or other unconscious complexes.
The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.