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
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
The prerequisite for a good marriage ... is the license to be unfaithful.
No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has become for him a source of life, meaning, and beauty, and that has given a new splendor to the world and to mankind.
The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth.
No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it. Irrespective of our conscious convictions, each one of us, without exception, being a particle of the general mass, is somewhere attached to, colored by, or even undermined by the spirit which goes through the mass. Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.
The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. In fact the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious. We can see this most clearly if we look at the heavenly constellations, whose originally chaotic forms are organized through the projection of images. This explains the influence of the stars as asserted by astrologers. These influences are nothing but unconscious instrospective perceptions of the collective unconscious.
It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.
That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate.
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things.
It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound . . . Everything is mediated through the mind.
In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious
Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.