Elixir of life Quote by Gary Valentine Lachman

“What troubled Jung most was Freud’s tendency to reduce any expression of spirituality—in a cultural or philosophical sense—to something smaller. Freud sniffed out sex…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

“Jung recognized that society advances only slowly, through the gradual integration of new insights gleaned through the often unrecorded work of individuals, whose attempts…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

“One result of active imagination, according to some reports, is an increase in synchronistic and paranormal phenomena. 32 This was certainly true of Jung.…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

“Again Jung wanted to make contact with “archaic man” and he asked the Pueblo chief why he thought the whites were mad. Ochwiay told…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

“But Jung did speak out against Hitler some years before he left the society. In 1936 he condemned the Fuehrer as a “raving berserker”…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

“Dulles knew of Jung through his wife, who had an interest in psychoanalysis and had trained as an analyst in Zürich before the war.…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

“Western man, Jung saw, always wants to do something, to “get somewhere”; this kind of restlessness is characteristic of us all. A few years…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

“Jung’s remarks about how in North Africa he “felt cast back many centuries to an infinitely more naïve world of adolescents who were preparing,…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

“Anyone who does creative work is familiar with this problem, and in many ways active imagination is similar to writing, painting, and so on;…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

“Jung came to understand that in this regard, we are all fragmented, and that the work of individuation is to fuse our disparate parts…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

“As he argued in The Undiscovered Self, Jung told the “average” reader that any possibility of avoiding disaster “must begin with an individual.” “It…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

“Jung had had enough, and in his reply he made clear his disgust with Freud’s infuriating practice of treating criticism of his ideas as…

— Gary Valentine Lachman