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 don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.
The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men.
Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact... Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health personal growth, individuation and self-actualisation.
Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.
The angel personifies something new arising from the deep unconscious.
The unconscious process moves spiral-wise around a center, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the center grow more and more distinct.
Dream analysis stands or falls with [the hypothesis of the unconscious]. Without it the dream appears to be merely a freak of nature, a meaningless conglomerate of memory-fragments left over from the happenings of the day.
Words are animals, alive with a will of their own
That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate.
Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his great gifts . . . the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element.
The underlying, primary psychic reality is so inconceivably complex that it can be grasped only at the farthest reach of intuition, and then but very dimly. That is why it needs symbols.
An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.
But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.