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
The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.
What you resist persist.
No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.
Moreover, my ancestors' souls are sustained by the atmosphere of the house, since I answer for them the questions that their lives once left behind. I carve out rough answers as best I can. I have even drawn them on the walls. It is as if a silent, greater family, stretching down the centuries, were peopling the house.
The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.
The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.
When you walk with naked feet, how can you ever forget the Earth?
Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered.
From the viewpoint of analytic psychology, the theatre, aside from any aesthetic value, may be considered as an institution for the treatment of the mass complex.
It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.
Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical...We might well say, on the contrary, that physical existence is a mere inference, since we know of matter only in so far as we perceive psychic images mediated by the senses.
The self is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre of this totality, just as the ego is the centre of consciousness.
The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Nietzsche called the spirit of gravity.