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
A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.
Man is in need if a symbolical life- badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational or irrational things- but we have no symbolic life. Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life
We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.
Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times.
There is a deep need in the world just now for guidance - almost any sort of spiritual guidance.
Everyone you meet knows something you don't know but need to know. Learn from them.
The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.
You are a slave of what you need in your soul.
Perhaps, I myself am the enemy who needs to be loved.
One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself.
We don't always get the journey we want. But we always get the journey we need.
Are you staring at me because you've seen my doppelganger roaming the halls, playing kind of the cafeteria? Or because you need to borrow a pencil and you're too shy to ask?
A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.