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
Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.
Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Deeply listening to music opens up new avenues of research I'd never even dreamed of. I feel from now on music should be an essential part of every analysis.
The spirit is the life of the body seen from within, and the body the outward manifestation of the life of the spirit-the two being really one.
No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is certain that someone will. And let those who go down the sunset way do so with open eyes, for it is a sacrifice which daunts even the gods. Yet every descent is followed by an ascent.
The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity.
In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong.
The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.
Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and highest on the other side; that is to say, this depth corresponds to a potential height, and the blackest darkness to a hidden light.
The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.
A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.
Sensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.
One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.