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Neurosis Quotes by Carl Jung
- Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond his control. His…
- Life calls us forth to independence, and anyone who does not heed this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened with neurosis. And…
- We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an enormous…
- Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.
- Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
- About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be…
- I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage,…
- Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.
- Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
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