The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The underlying, primary psychic reality is so inconceivably complex that it can be grasped only at the farthest reach of intuition, and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art... Consciousness is forever interfering,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Complexes are psychic contents which are outside the control of the conscious mind. They have been split off from consciousness and lead… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
We are a psychic process which we do not control, or only partly direct. Consequently, we cannot have any final judgment about… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
As soon as the dialogue between two people touches on something fundamental, essential, numinous, and a certain rapport is felt, it gives… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Whenever there is a reaching down into innermost experience, into the nucleus of personality, most people are overcome by fear and many… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The woman is increasingly aware that love alone can give her full stature, just as the man begins to discern that spirit… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without imperfection. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The mandala is an archetypal image whose occurrence is attested throughout the ages. It signifies the wholeness of the self. This circular… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself]… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology was given… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“He would have lived countless times over the life of the individual, of the family, tribe and people, and he would possess the living… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
People learn from who we are, rather than what we say, and to believe otherwise is a disease of the mind. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
