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
Carl Jung quotes about
Every man carries within himself the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite feminine image. This image is fundamentally unconscious, a hereditary factor of primordial origin.
God enters through the wound.
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world - all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls.
Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
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.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.
Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
If there is anything that 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.