Quotes About Unconscious

We're all trapped in a maze of relationships life goes on with or without you. I swim in the sea of the unconscious, I search for your heart, pursuing my true self.

Jung's own constructive practice was to reconnect the individual "with the gods" – that is, with the collective archetypes of the unconscious – so that the healing transcendent function could come into play.

The psyche is divided into consciousness and the unconscious and the latter serves to compensate the conscious attitude. Whenever the conscious attitude is too one-sided, its unconscious opposite manifests itself autonomously (Greek: auto=self, nomos=law, a law unto itself) to rectify the imbalance. It does this internally through powerful dreams and images, or it can pathologize in disease.

Can she help it if the unconscious is a sewer?

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

Although Firestone's acknowledgment that the personal (the unconscious sexual drives) is not only political but also more fundamental than the political — and indeed structurally prior to any political scenario (democratic, repressive, or revolutionary) makes for a serious and unique challenge and possible contribution to historical materialism, her use of the terminology of the natural/non-natural, in particular, ultimately poses more questions than answers.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

There is in woman something of the unconscious function of drugs which are cunning without knowing it, like morphine.

The anaesthetic effect of custom being destroyed, I would begin to think and to feel very melancholy things. The door-handle of my room, which was different to me from all the other doorhandles in the world, inasmuch as it seemed to open of its own accord and without my having to turn it, so unconscious had its manipulation become; lo and behold, it was now an astral body for Golo. And

And, like the rest of America, Paradise slept: well past the wee hours, to the break of Sunday dawn. Across the city, across the county, one hundred and eighty-eight thousand lives lay down together in isolated slumber, unconsciously intertwined. And not a one of them ever even saw it coming.

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material…..

The web is my unconscious but it's also a wish -- a fantasy of what my own creativity might look like if I weren't constantly impeding its flow.

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

É que toda vez que queremos imitar alguma coisa que se passou realmente, esquecemos que essa coisa foi produzida não pela vontade de imitar, mas por uma força inconsciente e, por sua vez, real.

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories. ------ The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.

When it comes to fantasy formations, it is therefore essential to distinguish between (1) unconscious fantasies that curb our existential options and (2) imaginative and creative fantasies that allow us to observe the world from novel angles. Lacan's assault on narcissistic fantasies is directed at the former, whereas his commentary on the poetic potentialities of language could be argued to relate to the latter.

What we most care about in the world—and particularly what we cannot help caring about on the unconscious level—influences our fate by shaping us into the sorts of persons we are.

This is one reason that improving our external circumstances may not always be enough to alleviate our longstanding anxieties or to make us feel more empowered; to the extent that the unconscious is committed to preserving the past—even when this past is not what we would have chosen—in an unchanging form, it can prevent our inner lives from catching up with modifications of our external conditions.

It is less important—and ultimately perhaps rather futile—to reach ethical or intellectual conclusions about the unconscious than it is to create a space of inquiry where we diligently attend to how it continues to reincarnate the past in the present.

In this manner, language becomes a medium that allows the conscious and unconscious realms to come together in a fluid manner. From this viewpoint, self-stories are effective not so much because they help us make sense of our lives, but because they give us access to the spirited liveliness of language. Indeed, to the extent that our identities are tied to discursive structures, it could be argued that the mobility of language is directly linked to the flexibility of being.

What we most care about in the world—and particularly what we cannot help caring about on the unconscious level—influences our fate by shaping us into the sorts of persons we are. Consequently, becoming astute readers of our unconscious can help us to better comprehend why our lives have evolved the way they have.

For the child with such exercises makes, to a certain extent, a selection of his own tendencies, which were at first confused in the unconscious disorder of his movements. It is remarkable how clearly individual differences show themselves, if we proceed in this way; the child, conscious and free, reveals himself.