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How else could it have occurred to man to divide the cosmos, on the analogy of day and night, summer and winter, into a bright… — Carl Jung
The darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two twilight figures, the… — Carl Jung
The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness… — Carl Jung
The great problems of life—sexuality, of course, among others—are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are really balancing or… — Carl Jung
The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not—which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making… — Carl Jung
I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful stone, was only… — Carl Jung
Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us the unvarnished, natural… — Carl Jung
It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether these actions emanate… — Carl Jung
The God-image in man was not destroyed by the Fall but was only damaged and corrupted ('deformed'), and can be restored through God's grace. The… — Carl Jung
The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength… — Carl Jung
The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent. — Carl Jung
Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations. — Erich Fromm
Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious. — Louis Althusser
Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it. — Pierre Bourdieu
All of my unconscious fears were in my face about letting go of the current identity. A lot of the thoughts that came up were… — Alanis Morissette
Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact… — Frank Herbert
The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life for the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of the… — Virginia Henderson
Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself… — Nathaniel Branden
Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees of awareness. — Arthur Koestler
Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend to call even his weirdest… — David Foster Wallace
I back away from conscious thought and turn the problem over to my unconscious mind. It will scan a broader array of patterns and find… — Arthur Fry
The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and… — Pierre-Paul Grasse
Some women have 'always' been lesbians. Others, like myself, have 'become' one. As much a sociocultural construction as it is an effect of early childhood… — Teresa de Lauretis
Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives. — Sarah Ban Breathnach
So where do the ideas-the salable ideas-come from? They come from my nightmares. Not the night-time variety, as a rule, but the ones that hide… — Stephen King

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