Carl Jung
Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology and became one of the most influential interpreters of the spiritual dimension of the human mind in the twentieth century. Born in 1875 in Kesswil, Switzerland, he was Sigmund Freud's most famous collaborator and then his most consequential dissenter, breaking with Freud in 1913 over the role of the spiritual in the unconscious. His concepts — the collective unconscious, archetypes, individuation, the shadow, the anima and animus, synchronicity — became foundational vocabulary for the contemplative-psychological turn of the late twentieth century. His Red Book, published posthumously in 2009, revealed a contemplative practitioner of extraordinary depth. He died in 1961 in Küsnacht; his Bollingen Tower remains a place of pilgrimage for serious students of his work.
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Quotes by Carl Jung
104 quotes“The privilege of becoming who you are exceeds every other privilege.”
“There is no birth of consciousness without pain.”
“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.”
“The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution.”
“Children are educated by what the grownup is and not by his talk.”
“Every projection comes back to roost.”
“To know your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
“Where your fear is, there is your task.”
“In each of us is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams.”
“Don't hold on to someone who is leaving — otherwise you won't meet the one who's coming.”
“Yes, I am at peace, but never with my work.”
“Religion is a careful and scrupulous observation of what Rudolph Otto aptly termed the numinosum.”
“The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality.”
“Wholeness for humans depends on the ability to own their own shadow.”
“The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious.”
“Man cannot stand a meaningless life.”
“Anybody who feels that he is in the right is the very person who needs the most reflection.”
“My life is a story of the self-realization of the unconscious.”
“What you don't bring to the light, you live in the dark.”
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