Quotes About Unconscious

The archetypal image decides the fate of man.

If such a compensatory move of the unconscious is not integrated into consciousness in an individual, it leads to a neurosis or even to a psychosis.

that is, towards the unconscious, the only available source of religious experience.

From the unconscious there emanate determining influences…which, independently of tradition, guarantee in every single individual a similarity and even a sameness of experience, and also of the way it is represented imaginatively.

This is certainly not to say that what we call the unconscious is identical with God or is set up in his place. It is simply the medium from which religious experience seems to flow. As to what the further cause of such experience may be, the answer to this lies beyond the range of human knowledge. Knowledge of God is a transcendental problem.

Man's task is…to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious. Neither should he persist in his unconsciousness nor remain identical with the unconscious elements of his being, thus evading his destiny, which is to create more and more consciousness. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities, and ways out of blocked situations.

Our dreams are like windows that allow us to look in, or to listen in, to that psychological process which is continually going on in our unconscious.

In order to make the language of dreams understood, we use many parallels from the psychology of primitive races as well as from historical symbolism. This is because dreams originate in the unconscious, which contains the residual potentialities of function of all preceding epochs of evolution.

Projection is one of the commonest psychic phenomena…Everything that is unconscious in ourselves we discover in our neighbour, and we treat him accordingly.

A] sense of moral inferiority" writes Jung "always indicates that the missing element is something which, to judge by this feeling about it, really ought not to be missing, or which could be made conscious if only one took sufficient trouble. . .Whenever a sense of moral inferiority appears, it indicates not only a need to assimilate an unconscious component, but also the possibility of such assimilation.

Self-justification is complicated enough when it follows our conscious choices and we know we can expect it. But it also occurs in the aftermath of things we do for unconscious reasons, when we haven't a clue about why we hold some belief or cling to some custom but are too proud to admit it.

This is what Jung's predecessor, Sigmund Freud, called "the return of the repressed.

If we all allow ourselves to feel the unconscious, divine, kinky pleasure we've been suppressing, then we are left with just our intelligence to guide our decisions, and that's great. Your own intelligence and consciously chosen principles are a much better ethical compass than your reactive feelings of guilt.

As Jung emphasized: "Until you make the unconscious, conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it Fate.

every unpleasant feeling we have has an unconscious motivation.

I'll have to remember that next time," Nick says. "Instead of tying a pixie up to a tree when I don't have time to bring him back to the house, I can just knock him unconscious for hours with the power of a frozen everything bagel.

People are more likely to object to nudges that appeal to unconscious or subconscious processes.

The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.

Metaphysics in philosophy is, of course, supposed to characterize what is real - literally real. The irony is that such a conception of the real depends upon unconscious metaphors.

They often keep turning the handle of the grinder after the coffee is ground.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.