Nobody doubts the importance of conscious experience; why then should we doubt the significance of unconscious happenings? They also are part of… — 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
The squaring of the circle is a stage on the way to the unconscious, a point of transition leading to a goal… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection, in which are reflected the mythologems, i.e., the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and quaternity figures which express wholeness, and whenever we… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The man of today, who resembles more or less the collective ideal, has made his heart into a den of murderers, as… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two… — 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
Unconscious assumptions or opinions are the worst enemy of woman; they can even grow into a positively demonic passion that exasperates and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The God-image in man was not destroyed by the Fall but was only damaged and corrupted ('deformed'), and can be restored through… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
So far as the personality is still potential, it can be called transcendent, and so far as it is unconscious, it is… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one that is consciously realized is tremendous. In… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
How else could it have occurred to man to divide the cosmos, on the analogy of day and night, summer and winter,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I use [Heraclitus' discovery of] enantiodromia for the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time. This characteristic phenomenon practically… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the… — 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,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
We can hardly escape the feeling that the unconscious process moves spiral-wise round a centre, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The unconscious wants to flow into consciousness in order to reach the light, but at the same time it continually thwarts itself,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
...The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
For a woman, the typical danger emanating from the unconscious comes from above, from the "spiritual" sphere personified by the animus, whereas… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
A man likes to believe that he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The self is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In the end, the only events of my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world erupted into this transitory one… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
...The Western 'God-image' is a representation of the collective unconscious, an archetype of the psyche that undergoes a continual process of transformation...The… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The woman who fights against her father still has the possibility of leading an instinctive, feminine existence, because she rejects only what… — 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
Many who know something but not enough about dreams and their meaning...are liable to succumb to the prejudice that the dream actually… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The unconscious is the only available source of religious experience. This in certainly not to say that what we call the unconscious… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The need for mythic statements is satisfied when we frame a view of the world which adequately explains the meaning of human… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms… — 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