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 would rather be whole than good.
The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community.
VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.
Modern man is sick because he is not whole.
Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living.
Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness
Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow.
The brighter the light, the darker the shadow.
The creative mind plays with the object it loves.
...The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all.
Nature seemed to me full of wonders, and I wanted to steep myself in them. Every stone, every plant, every single thing seemed alive and indescribably marvelous. I immersed myself in nature, crawled, as it were, into the very essence of nature and away from the whole human world.
The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona.
As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.
Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.