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
Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.
Intuition is one of the four basic psychological functions along with thinking, feeling,and sensing.
When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear only of unequivocal results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness. But to penetrate the darkness we must summon all the powers of enlightenment that consciousness can offer.
We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos- the right moment- for a 'metamorphosis of the gods', of the fundamental principles and symbols. This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious man within us who is changing.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning; for what in the morning was true will in evening become a lie.
How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole
The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine."
Perhaps, I myself am the enemy who needs to be loved.
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul...
To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.