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
All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.
The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.
I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.
A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found.
The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.
The greater the tension, the greater is the potential.
Explore daily the will of God.
The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends.
If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I do not affect him, nor does he affect me. But if I know that a god is a powerful impulse in my soul, at once I must concern myself with him, for then he can become important
People cannot stand too much Reality.
A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force