Quotes About Jung

Jung believed that every act of social propriety was accompanied by its evil twin, its unconscious shadow. Nietzsche investigated the role played by what he he termed *ressentiment* in motivating what were ostensibly selfish actions -- and, often, exhibited all too publically.

As Jung points out, this means embracing and loving the sinner who is yourself, as much as forgiving and aiding someone else who is stumbling and imperfect.

Jung believed that every act of social propriety was accompanied by its evil twin, its unconscious shadow. Nietzsche investigated the role played by what he termed ressentiment in motivating what were ostensibly selfish actions -- and, often, exhibited all too publically.

Freud and Jung, with their intense focus on the autonomous individual psyche, placed too little focus on the role of the community in the maintenance of personal mental health.

For Jung, whatever was at the top of an individual's moral hierarchy was, for all intents and purposes, that person's ultimate value, that person's god. It was what the person acted out. It was what the person believed most deeply. Something enacted is not a fact, or even a set of facts. Instead, it's a personality—or, more precisely, a choice between two opposing personalities.

Gail Delaney's Living Your Dreams, Ann Faraday's The Dream Game, and Patricia Garfield's Creative Dreaming. Jung's

The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection.

I did invent the idea of using lucid dreaming to treat sleep disorders, but I was influenced by many real-life researchers - from forefathers like Freud and Jung to Stephen Laberge and Rosalind Cartwright, who explore lucid dreaming and parasomnias.

Jung acompanha-nos à porta do incognoscível e deixa que vejamos e comprendamos por nós próprios.

At the entrance to the original tower, there is a stone into which Jung carved some words with his own hand: 'Cold or not, God is present.

The Psychology of the Unconscious Processes provided an exposition of the collective, suprapersonal, absolute unconscious—these terms being used interchangeably. Jung argued that one needed to separate oneself from the unconscious by presenting it visibly as something separate from one. It was vital to differentiate the I from the non-I, namely, the collective psyche or absolute unconscious.

Jung was the first to propose the model of psychic energy, suggesting that for introverts, energy flows inward, while for extroverts, energy flows outward. Introverts tend to embrace this definition. It fels right for us because we know exactly what it feels like to have our energy depleted when we have sent too much flowing outward.

Philemon explained how Jung treated thoughts as though they were generated by himself, while for Philemon "thoughts were like animals in the forest, or people in a room, or birds in the air." Jung concluded that Philemon taught him "psychic objectivity, the reality of the psyche." This helped Jung to understand that there is something in me which can say things that I do not know and do not intend.

The experiences of BPM I typically have strong mystical overtones; they feel sacred or holy. More precise, perhaps, would be the term numinous, which C.G. Jung used to avoid religious jargon. When we have experiences of this kind, we feel that we have encountered dimnensions of reality that belong to a superior order.

Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.

This highly enigmatic concept of the storehouse consciousness, which some Western scholars have aptly or inaptly tried to liken to Jung's collective unconscious,

As Carl Jung said, "I am not what has happened to me. I am what I choose to become." Even

Carl Jung argued that a paradox is one of our most valued spiritual possessions and a great witness to the truth.

After termination with her analyst in London, Marion would henceforth let her life be guided by an ongoing analysis of her own dream world. "Once we know what the dream world is," she writes, "to be without it is to be rudderless. The dream continually corrects our waking course." Marion, like Jung, came to believe that dreams are the path—circular and meandering as it is—to a knowledge of the exiled self.

According to Jung, a stranger can see in an instant something in you that you might spend years learning about yourself.

Furthermore, the way in which the two (Freud and Jung) corresponds invoke Fliess's ghost leaves no doubt on the subject. They threaten each other with it between the lines, they frighten each other with it, and they do so because they know (but with a secret, esoteric knowledge that never goes beyond the bounds of the private correspondence) that Fliess had gone mad owing to his correspondence with Freud.

The career acceleration that for so many men precedes any inner survey also serves to delay it. By the time the true and sobering issues that are driving them forward begin to insist on acknowledgment, the impact may be more cruel. A crucible rather than a survey. Jung

It is no small task to learn to see our depression, anxiety, weight, relationship problems, addictions, and illnesses as efforts of our psyche to heal us—as symptoms that are trying to get us to change, in ways that will help our lives become better on a more profound level. Jung calls learning to value our problems and how they can lead us into becoming transformed, the "teleological aspects" of symptoms.

The early-twentieth-century psychoanalytic thinker Carl Jung, says Kagan, originated the concept of introverted and extroverted personalities. Jung also believed that each had a slightly different brain structure.