“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, denial, and projection. Not only do we repress the shadow in the personal unconscious, but we… — Anthony Stevens Copy Share
“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, denial, and projection. Not only do we repress the shadow in the personal unconscious, but we deny its existence in ourselves, and project it out on to others. This is done quite unconsciously: we are not… — Anthony Stevens Copy Share
“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 may fail to be realized. Thus, the boy whose father was inadequate or absent may fail to actualize his masculine potential sufficiently to establish the social or vocational role his talents equip him for, or he… — Anthony Stevens Copy Share
“Had Jung been a Nazi sympathizer, would this provide grounds for rejecting analytical psychology in toto? Some insist that it would, apparently in the belief that a man's views should conform to contemporary notions of political correctness before serious attention can be granted to his work. Their contention could be justified were it proved that analytical psychology, so closely derived… — Anthony Stevens Copy Share
“These researches renewed his commitment to analysis, which he now conceived more as a means to produce personal growth than as a technique for treating mental disorder, and he increasingly devoted his energy to teaching others, whether as pupils or patients, the same methods he had perfected during his own confrontation with the unconscious and which he had excavated in… — Anthony Stevens Copy Share
“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
