Carl Gustav Jung
Carl Gustav 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...
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The Christian West considers man to be wholly dependent upon the grace of God, or at least upon the Church as the exclusive and divinely sanctioned earthly instrument of man's redemption. The East (India), however, insists that man is the sole cause of his higher development, for it believes in "self- liberation.
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Thank God I'm Jung and not a Jungian.
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Psychology does not know what good and evil are in themselves; it knows them only as judgments about relationships.
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...my evenings are taken up very largely with astrology, I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth.
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The term 'religion' designates the attitude peculiar to a consciousness which has been changed by experience of the numinosum
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If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents
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All religions are therapies for the sorrows and disorders of the soul.
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You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible toinfluence.
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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
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We live in a time when there dawns upon us a realization that the people on the other side of the mountain are not made up exclusively of redheaded devils responsible for all the evil on this side of the mountain
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Today as never before it is important that human beings should not overlook the danger of the evil lurking withing them. It is unfortunately only too real, which is why psychology must insist on the reality of evil and must reject any definition that regards it as insignificant or actually non-existent.
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There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
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The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong