Carl Jung Quotes - Page 18

• Every father is given the opportunity to corrupt his daughter's nature, and the educator, husband, or psychiatrist then has to face the music. For what has been spoiled by the father can only be made good by a father, just as what has been spoiled by the mother can only be repaired by a mother. The disastrous repetition of the family pattern could be described as the psychological original sin, or as the curse of the Atrides running through the generations.

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  Mother, Running, Daughter

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1963). “Mysterium coniunctionis, an inquiry into the separation and synthesis of psychic opposites in alchemy”

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• At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness. Please, don't worry about my wanderings in these infinitudes. I shall return laden with rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche.

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  Land, Astrology, Worry

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• St. Thomas is really a great man quite apart from his saintliness.

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  Men, Great Men, St Thomas

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.

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  Thinking, Consciousness, Influence

  Carl Gustav Jung (1959). “pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious”

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• Learn your techniques well and be prepared to let them go when you touch the human soul.

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  Creativity, Thinking, Soul

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• To this day God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly, all things which upset my subjective views, plans and intentions and change the course of my life for better or worse.

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  Views, Names, Upset

  Carl Gustav Jung, Murray Stein (1999). “Jung on Christianity”, p.6, Princeton University Press

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• I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths of and heights of our psychic nature. Its non-spatial universe conceals an untold abundance of images which have accumulated over millions of years of living development and become fixed in the organism....Beside this picture I would like to place the spectacle of the starry heavens at night, for the only equivalent of the universe within is the universe without; and just as I reach this world through the medium of the body, so I reach that world through the medium of the psyche.

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  Night, Years, Psychics

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• It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world colour and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I call "experience" is, in its most simple form, an exceedingly complicated structure of mental images. Thus there is, in a certain sense, nothing that is directly experienced except the mind itself. Everything is mediated through the mind.

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  Color, Giving, Mind

  "The structure and dynamics of the psyche".

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• About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.

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  Suffering, Neurosis, Emptiness

  "Modern Man in Search of a Soul".

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• Whenever there is a reaching down into innermost experience, into the nucleus of personality, most people are overcome by fear and many run away. . . The risk of inner experience, the adventure of the spirit, is in any case alien to most human beings. The possibility that such experience might have psychic reality is anathema to them.

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  Running, Fear, Adventure

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• A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

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  Mean, Special, Energy

  Carl Gustav Jung (1933). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Two, Being Real

  Carl Gustav Jung (1964). “Civilization in transition”

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• The 'squaring of the circle' is one of the many archetypal motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams and fantasies. But it is distinguished by the fact that it is one of the most important of them from the functional point of view. Indeed, it could even be called the archetype of wholeness.

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  Dream, Views, Circles

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.388, Princeton University Press

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• There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

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  Wisdom, Pain, Light

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• The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary.

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  Men, Trying, Realizing

  Carl Gustav Jung (1938). “Psychology and Religion”

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• Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union of opposites through the middle path", that most fundamental item of inward experience which could respectably be set against the Chinese concept of Tao.

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  Opposites, Names, Chinese

  Carl Gustav Jung, Richard Francis Carrington Hull (1992). “Two Essays on Analytical Psychology”, p.205, Psychology Press

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• Science...is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.

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  Science, Understanding, Kind

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• Imagination is a concentrated extract of all the forces of life.

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  Imagination, Force

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• The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.

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  Psychology, Body, Unions

  Factors Determining Human Behaviour

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• Never diagnose a (client) until after their therapy is over.

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  Clients, Therapy

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• Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche. This is the World Power that vastly exceeds all other powers on earth. The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul.

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  Men, Earthquakes, Soul

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The collected works”

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• If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I do not affect him, nor does he affect me. But if I know that a god is a powerful impulse in my soul, at once I must concern myself with him, for then he can become important

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  Faith, Powerful, Soul

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• In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.

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  Errors, Age, Degrees

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• My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it is still a light, my only light.

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  Light, Understanding, Darkness

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether these actions emanate from God or from the unconscious. We cannot tell whether God and the unconscious are two different entities. Both are border-line concepts for transcendental contents. But empirically it can be established, with a sufficient degree of probability, that there is in the unconscious an archetype of wholeness.

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  Self, Two, Special

  "Psychology and religion: West and East".

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