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
Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul.
No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.
Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted...
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
In each of us there is another whom we do not know.
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 creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men.
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Shame is a soul eating emotion.
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.