“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 does not create itself – it wells up from unknown depths. In childhood it awakens gradually,… — Anthony Stevens Copy Share Image
“Jung’s gift for transcending the confines of his own consciousness began, as we have seen, in the fantasy games of his childhood.” — 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
