Carl Jung Quotes - Page 23

• The psyche is a natural phenomenon. All aspects of the psyche, even those which seem pathological or destructive, actually serve the function of furthering our psychological development.

  Carl Jung

  Development, Psychological, Natural

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• A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile, 'How did you select that crocodile?'. Nonsense. He has selected you. The patient doesn't even select the symptoms unconsciously. That is an extraordinary exaggeration of the subject to say he was choosing such things. They get him.

  Carl Jung

  Patient, Nonsense, Select

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• Ultimate truth, if there be such a thing, demands the concert of many voices.

  Carl Jung

  Voice, Demand, Concerts

  Carl Gustav Jung, Sir Herbert Edward Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1977). “The Collected Works: The symbolic life. Miscellaneous writings”

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• As soon as the dialogue between two people touches on something fundamental, essential, numinous, and a certain rapport is felt, it gives rise to a phenomenon which Lévy-Bruhl fittingly called participation mystique. It is an unconscious identity in which two individual psychic spheres interpenetrate to such a degree that it is impossible to say what belongs to whom.

  Carl Jung

  Psychics, Two, People

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1964). “Civilization in transition”

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• Thank God I'm not a Jungian.

  Carl Jung

  Thank God

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• Plants were bound for good or ill to their places. They expressed not only beauty but also the thoughts of God's world, with an intent of their own and without deviation. Trees in particular were mysterious and seemed to me direct embodiments of the incomprehensible meaning of life. For that reason, the woods were the places where I felt closest to its deepest meaning and to its awe-inspiring workings.

  Carl Jung

  Tree, Meaning Of Life, World

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• I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike universe especially set up for it.

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  Three, Life Is, This Life

  Carl Gustav Jung, Roderick Main (1997). “Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal”, Psychology Press

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• Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an appendix, for instance. Does he know he ought to have an appendix? He is just born with it....Our unconscious mind, like our body, is a storehouse of relics and memories of the past. A study of the structure of the unconscious collective mind would reveal the same discoveries as you make in comparative anatomy. We do not need to think that there is anything mystical about it.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Memories, Past

  "Analytical Psychology: Its Theory and Practice".

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• The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. In fact the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious. We can see this most clearly if we look at the heavenly constellations, whose originally chaotic forms are organized through the projection of images. This explains the influence of the stars as asserted by astrologers. These influences are nothing but unconscious instrospective perceptions of the collective unconscious.

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  Stars, Real, Taken

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• Liverpool is the pool of life, it makes to live.

  Carl Jung

  Pool, Liverpool

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• God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known.

  Carl Jung

  Heart, Want, Fallen

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• Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Levels, Conscious

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.128, Psychology Press

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• ...the soul does not require the organs of sense in order to see, hear, smell, taste and feel, in a much more perfect state; but with this great difference, that in such a state, it stands in much nearer connection with the spirtual than the material world.

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  Order, Smell, Differences

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• Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and darker it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it

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  Men, Personality, Doubt

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• When you come to think about it, nothing has any meaning, for when there was nobody to think, there was nobody to interpret what happened.

  Carl Jung

  Thinking, Happened

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.31, Princeton University Press

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• The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible state of happiness, but to help (the client) acquire steadfastness and patience in the face of suffering.

  Carl Jung

  Suffering, Principles, Faces

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• Complexes are psychic contents which are outside the control of the conscious mind. They have been split off from consciousness and lead a separate existence in the unconscious, being at all times ready to hinder or to reinforce the conscious intentions.

  Carl Jung

  Science, Psychics, Mind

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.600, Routledge

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• The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization, for the psychic isolation of the individual. The more unrelated individuals are, the more consolidated the State becomes, and vice versa.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Psychics, Understanding

  Carl Gustav Jung (2013). “The Undiscovered Self”, p.72, Routledge

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• Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about the real nature of matter. The psychic, alone has immediate reality, and this includes all forms of the psychic, even

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  Real, Psychics, World

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• The discussion of the sexual problem is only a somewhat crude prelude to a far deeper question, and that is the question of the psychological relationship between the sexes. In comparison with this the other pales into insignificance, and with it we enter the real domain of woman. Woman's psychology is founded on the principle of Eros, the great binder and loosener, whereas from ancient times the ruling principle ascribed to man is Logos.

  Carl Jung

  Sex, Real, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1970). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Civilization in transition”

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• Science is not ... a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when taken as an end in itself.

  Carl Jung

  Taken, Science, Perfect

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• All neurotics seek the religious

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  Religious, Religion, Psychiatry

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• The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.

  Carl Jung

  Parenting, Parent, Tragedy

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• Paul hardly ever allows the real Jesus of Nazareth to get a word in.

  Carl Jung

  Jesus, Real, Historical

  Carl Gustav Jung, Murray Stein (1999). “Jung on Christianity”, p.108, Princeton University Press

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• Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.

  Carl Jung

  Marriage, Pain, Doe

  "Contributions to Analytical Psychology". Book by Carl Jung, p. 193, 1928.

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