Carl Jung Quotes - Page 29

• From the viewpoint of analytic psychology, the theatre, aside from any aesthetic value, may be considered as an institution for the treatment of the mass complex.

  Carl Jung

  Psychology, Theatre, Viewpoints

  Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). “Psychology of the Unconscious”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• I came to Freud for facts. I read 'The Interpretation of Dreams' and I thought- 'Oh, here is a man who is not just theorizing away, here is a man who has got facts.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Men, Facts

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• Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole, both inwardly and outwardly.

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  Religious, Encounters, Events

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• What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind are prefigured.

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  Christian, Kind, Archetype

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1969). “Psychology and religion: West and East”

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• That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves

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  Substitutes, Incapacity, Objects

  Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). “Psychology of the Unconscious”, p.193, Courier Corporation

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• Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.

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  Men, Ideas, Giving

  Carl Gustav Jung (2012). “Man and His Symbols”, p.112, Dell

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• When a Pueblo Indian does not feel in the right mood, he stays away from the men's council. When an ancient Roman stumbled on the threshold as he left the house, he gave up his plans for the day. This seems to us senseless, but under primitive conditions of life such an omen inclines one at least to be cautious. When I am not in full control of myself, my bodily movements may be under a certain constraint; my attention is easily distracted; I am somewhat absent-minded. As a result I knock against something, stumble, let something fall, or forget something.

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  Fall, Men, House

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• Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.

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  Real, Echoes, Essence

  Carl Gustav Jung (1956). “Symbols of transformation”

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• We are convinced that certain people have all the bad qualities we do not know in ourselves.

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  People, Quality, Bad Qualities

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1969). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East”

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• I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways.

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  Thinking, Views, Path

  Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). “Psychology of the Unconscious”, p.73, Courier Corporation

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• In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when under the influence of repressed or other unconscious complexes.

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  Dream, Sleep, Waking Life

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• Astrology is one of the intuitive methods like the I Ching, geomantics, and other divinatory procedures. It is based upon the synchronicity principle, meaningful coincidence. ... Astrology is a naively projected psychology in which the different attitudes and temperaments of man are represented as gods and identified with planets and zodiacal constellations.

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  Meaningful, Attitude, Men

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• The fact is that certain ideas exist almost everywhere and at all times and can even spontaneously create themselves quite independently of migration and tradition.

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  Ideas, Unity, Migration

  Carl Gustav Jung (1969). “Psychology and religion: west and east”

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• We can hardly escape the feeling that the unconscious process moves spiral-wise round a centre, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the centre grow more and more distinct.

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  Wise, Moving, Independence

  "The Collected Works of C. G. Jung".

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• Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.

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  Fear, Understanding, Doe

  Carl Gustav Jung (1976). “The Collected works”

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• The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present.

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  Artist, Conjuring, Yearning

  Carl Gustav Jung (1978). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: The spirit in man, art, and literature”

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• A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

  Carl Jung

  Passion, Men, Light

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• Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream, may remain unknown.

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  Dream, Order, Wish

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• It seems as if it is only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own “existence” and making a philosophy out of it, can find his way back to a world in which he is no longer a stranger.

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  Philosophy, Reality, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.110, Princeton University Press

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• Gnosticism was stamped out completely and its remnants are so badly mangled that special study is needed to get any insight at all into its inner meaning.

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  Gnosticism, Special, Study

  Carl Gustav Jung (1989). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion”

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• The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort.

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  Personality, Effort, Ego

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1973). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious. pt. 2. Aion, researches into the phenomenology of the self”

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• The facts of nature cannot in the long run be violated. Penetrating and seeping through everything like water, they will undermine any system that fails to take account of them, and sooner or later they will bring about its downfall. But an authority wise enough in its statesmanship to give sufficient free play to nature - of which spirit is a part - need fear no premature decline.

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  Wise, Running, Play

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, R. F.C. Hull (1954). “The practice of psychotherapy”, Bollingen

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• The Platonic world of ideas corresponds to Thinking and Sensation on the mystical level.

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  Thinking, Ideas, World

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• We do not feel as if we were producing the dreams, it is rather as if the dreams came to us. They are not subject to our control but obey their own laws.

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  Dream, Law, Feels

  Carl Gustav Jung, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1972). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: The structure and dynamics of psyche”

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• Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie.

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  Morning, Lying, Afternoon

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