“To defend ourselves from this threat, and to sustain our peace of mind, we make use of a variety of ego-defence mechanisms,… — Anthony Stevens Defence mechanism Copy Share Image
“through the miracle of consciousness, the human psyche provides the mirror in which Nature sees herself reflected.” — Anthony Stevens Human psyche 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… — Anthony Stevens Family 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… — Anthony Stevens Jung 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… — Anthony Stevens Mental disorder 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… — Anthony Stevens Life 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,… — Anthony Stevens Psychology 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,… — Anthony Stevens Books 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 Freedom 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… — Anthony Stevens Life 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,… — Anthony Stevens Children 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… — Anthony Stevens Dream 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… — Anthony Stevens Gender 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… — Anthony Stevens Childhood Copy Share Image
“The most demanding part of a Jungian analysis occurs when the analysand (the person undergoing analysis) begins to confront his own shadow.… — Anthony Stevens True nature Copy Share Image
“Those who toe the party line do not choose their own way but submerge their potential for wholeness in a relatively unconscious… — Anthony Stevens Life Copy Share Image
“Unscrupulous leaders can manipulate this mechanism in whole populations. Adolf Hitler, for example, repeatedly described the Jews as Untermenschen (subhumans) and through… — Anthony Stevens Leadership Copy Share Image
“Looking back on his life he reflected, ‘In my case it must have been a passionate urge to understanding that brought about… — Anthony Stevens Learning Copy Share Image
“Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome,’ he wrote. ‘The part that appears above ground… — Anthony Stevens Life 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 Children Copy Share Image
“Human consciousness created objective existence and meaning, and man found his indispensable place in the great process of being.” — Anthony Stevens Human consciousness Copy Share Image
“the ego begins to confront the Self and the Self the ego, and through the mediation of the transcendent function (which we… — Anthony Stevens Higher consciousness Copy Share Image
