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
The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.
A [wo]man who is unconscious of [her/]himself acts in a blind, instinctive way and is in addition fooled by all the illusions that arise when he sees everything that he is not conscious of in himself coming to meet him from outside as projections upon his neighbour.
I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways.
We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Mohammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god. That can be the historic future.
In some way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single 'greatest man. . . .'
Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.
Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.
In each of us is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves.
The whole point of Jesus's life was not that we should become exactly like him, but that we should become ourselves in the same way he became himself. Jesus was not the great exception but the great example.
But I've strayed so far from normal now, I'll never find my way back. And the truth is, I no longer want to.
I'm with him, and he's with me, and that's the way it's meant to eternally be.
...in the end, all I want is to be with him. It's the only way my life feels complete.
Trust works both ways
Either way, we'll ride out together. That's how it is with soul mates. Thats just what they do.