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
Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.
Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact... Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health personal growth, individuation and self-actualisation.
Only one who has risked the fight with the dragon and is not overcome by it wins the "treasure hard to attain." He alone has a genuine claim to self-confidence, for he has faced the dark ground of his self and thereby has gained himself. This experience gives him faith and trust.
The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.
When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.
Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.
Intuition is one of the four basic psychological functions along with thinking, feeling,and sensing.
The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and...each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?
When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.
Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.
So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to human beings and to animals, that breaks into the Kraal at night and fetches the bull out of the herd: he is the destructive instinct.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.