Quotes About Self

In addition to the Self, Jung postulated archetypal components which play specific roles in the psychic development and social adjustment of everyone. These include the ego, persona, shadow, anima, and animus. Jung considered these to be archetypal structures which are built into the personal psyche in the form of complexes during the course of development. Each is a psychic organ operating in accordance with the biological principles of adaptation, homeostasis, and growth.

Although we experience the ego as the continuing centre of our existence it is, in fact, merely the Self's executive. 'For indeed our consciousness does not create itself – it wells up from unknown depths. In childhood it awakens gradually, and all through life it wakes each morning out of the depths of sleep from an unconscious condition. It is like a child that is born daily out of the primordial womb of the unconscious

the ego begins to confront the Self and the Self the ego, and through the mediation of the transcendent function (which we will examine later) bring about the attainment of personality integration and higher consciousness.

Through the persona we codify ourselves in a form which we hope will prove acceptable to others.

He understood these dreams as showing that the unconscious is the generator of the empirical personality and that the Self assumes human shape in order to enter three-dimensional reality.

Narcissists are bound to feel that their own death is the end of everything that really matters.

But listening to or participating in music can restore a person to himself, as the epigraph to this chapter suggests. People need to recapture what has been excluded during working hours: their subjectivity.

Hobbies and interests are often aspects of a human being which most clearly define his individuality, and make him the person he is.

For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.

My faith is a choice. My morality is a choice. My sexual orientation however isn't.

In life we either become bitter or better'. And the only person who determines that outcome is ourselves.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

To artists, he was the lefty son of Klaus, a man who lived by his values, who knew hardship. To himself he was Francis Arsenault, his own invention, ex nihilo.

el secreto de un buen matrimonio es casarse con el otro sin divorciarse de uno mismo.

Estoy haciendo mil cosas nuevas a pesar de mi mismo. No es fácil, ya sabes, saltar sobre `tu propia sombra.

Lo más difícil siempre es perdonarse a uno mismo.

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.

If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.

I myself am an absolute abyss.

It's not the basic Ithat the poet is afterbut the essential you.

When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.