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“In the final analysis, the only events in my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world erupted into this transitory one.”
“The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not?”
“Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.”
“The first half of life: build the ego. The second half: dissolve it. Both are sacred.”
“All experience of the soul is symbolic. Read your dreams.”
“Whoever penetrates into the self transcends the self.”
“The spirit of the depths even taught me to consider my action and my decision as dependent on dreams.”
“Image is psyche. Psyche is image. They are not two.”
“The shadow is one third of the personality.”
“The soul is the dwelling-place of God.”
“Until you bring the unconscious to consciousness, it will direct your life.”
“He who has not is content. He who has, suffers.”
“The ego is the seat of consciousness, but consciousness is much wider than the ego.”
“To be a doctor of the soul, one must first be a patient of the soul.”
“The journey to wholeness is the journey through the shadow.”
“What we cannot face we project. What we project we hate. What we hate we cannot face.”
“Beware of unearned wisdom.”
“In the unconscious, time is not.”
“Modern man does not want to know about his own nature, only about wonderful technical means.”
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