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“To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed.”
“Even when truly all is lost, all is not lost.”
“In studying the history of the human mind, one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness.”
“The mind, like the body, has its own truth.”
“All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.”
“The most decisive moments in life often come quietly.”
“Image is psyche.”
“The greater the contrast, the greater the potential.”
“To confront a person with his shadow is to show him his own light.”
“It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.”
“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.”
“Doubt is the door of knowledge.”
“There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.”
“What we look at in the morning is the news of the inner world.”
“Every man should live close to his own depths.”
“Consciousness is a precondition of being.”
“In intercourse the woman is the receiver. In creation, both are.”
“There is no growth without pain. There is no awakening without darkness.”
“To grow up is the great work.”
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