“In alchemy, Jung realized, he had found a precursor of his own Psychology. ‘The experiences of the alchemists were, in a sense, my experiences, and their world my world. This was, of course, a momentous discovery: I had stumbled upon… — Anthony Stevens Copy Share Image
“By projecting his psyche into the stone he gave the stone life, identity, consciousness, doing what the alchemists did as they gazed into the prima materia in their retorts. He came to see the imagination as the psychic quicksilver out… — Anthony Stevens Copy Share Image
“To defend ourselves from this threat, and to sustain our peace of mind, we make use of a variety of ego-defence mechanisms, particularly repression,… — Anthony Stevens Copy Share Image
“through the miracle of consciousness, the human psyche provides the mirror in which Nature sees herself reflected.” — Anthony Stevens Copy Share Image
“Where the parents are not 'good enough' the rest of the programme for life may be distorted and later stages in the archetypal sequence… — Anthony Stevens Copy Share Image
“Had Jung been a Nazi sympathizer, would this provide grounds for rejecting analytical psychology in toto? Some insist that it would, apparently in the… — Anthony Stevens Copy Share Image
“These researches renewed his commitment to analysis, which he now conceived more as a means to produce personal growth than as a technique for… — Anthony Stevens Copy Share Image
“Though never losing his taste for seclusion, he developed a talent for getting on with people in all walks of life, and those who… — Anthony Stevens Copy Share Image
“In alchemy, Jung realized, he had found a precursor of his own Psychology. ‘The experiences of the alchemists were, in a sense, my experiences,… — Anthony Stevens Copy Share Image
“Through the persona we codify ourselves in a form which we hope will prove acceptable to others.” — Anthony Stevens Copy Share Image
“The coexistence of these two sharply contrasting personalities within the same individual is as apparent in literature as in life: Dorian Gray, the handsome,… — Anthony Stevens Copy Share Image
“How can we enable the unconscious to realize itself? By granting it freedom of expression and then examining what it has expressed.” — Anthony Stevens Copy Share Image
“By projecting his psyche into the stone he gave the stone life, identity, consciousness, doing what the alchemists did as they gazed into the… — Anthony Stevens Copy Share Image
“Sexual differentiation begins approximately six weeks after conception, when in male children the gonads are formed and begin to manufacture male hormone, which has… — Anthony Stevens Copy Share Image
“He understood these dreams as showing that the unconscious is the generator of the empirical personality and that the Self assumes human shape in… — Anthony Stevens Copy Share Image
“The specious idea that gender differences are due entirely to culture, and have nothing to do with biological or archetypal predispositions, still enjoys wide… — Anthony Stevens Copy Share Image
“Although we experience the ego as the continuing centre of our existence it is, in fact, merely the Self’s executive. ‘For indeed our consciousness… — Anthony Stevens Copy Share Image
