Carl Jung
Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology and became one of the most influential interpreters of the spiritual dimension of the human mind in the twentieth century. Born in 1875 in Kesswil, Switzerland, he was Sigmund Freud's most famous collaborator and then his most consequential dissenter, breaking with Freud in 1913 over the role of the spiritual in the unconscious. His concepts — the collective unconscious, archetypes, individuation, the shadow, the anima and animus, synchronicity — became foundational vocabulary for the contemplative-psychological turn of the late twentieth century. His Red Book, published posthumously in 2009, revealed a contemplative practitioner of extraordinary depth. He died in 1961 in Küsnacht; his Bollingen Tower remains a place of pilgrimage for serious students of his work.
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Quotes by Carl Jung
119 quotes“The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality.”
shadowThe Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
“Wholeness for humans depends on the ability to own their own shadow.”
wholenessThe Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
“The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious.”
unconsciousMemories, Dreams, Reflections
“Man cannot stand a meaningless life.”
meaningModern Man in Search of a Soul
“Anybody who feels that he is in the right is the very person who needs the most reflection.”
reflectionMemories, Dreams, Reflections
“My life is a story of the self-realization of the unconscious.”
individuationMemories, Dreams, Reflections
“What you don't bring to the light, you live in the dark.”
shadowThe Red Book
“The image of God is not a notion. It is an event.”
GodThe Red Book
“There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life.”
archetypesThe Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
“Don't aim at success — the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.”
successMemories, Dreams, Reflections
“What you resist not only persists, but will grow in size.”
resistanceMemories, Dreams, Reflections
“To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed.”
individuationThe Red Book
“Even when truly all is lost, all is not lost.”
hopeMemories, Dreams, Reflections
“In studying the history of the human mind, one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness.”
consciousnessThe Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
“The mind, like the body, has its own truth.”
truthMemories, Dreams, Reflections
“All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.”
creativityThe Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
“The most decisive moments in life often come quietly.”
momentsMemories, Dreams, Reflections
“Image is psyche.”
imageThe Red Book
“The greater the contrast, the greater the potential.”
contrastThe Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
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