Quotes About Psychology

The more unconscious the whole of a man's personality is and the more germinal his ego, the more his experience of the whole will be projected upon the group.

Even personal complexes, i.e., semiconscious "split offs" which belong to the upper layers of the personal unconscious and are affectively charged and "feeling-toned," can evoke physical alterations in the circulatory system, in the respiration, blood pressure, and so on.

Whenever the energy-charge of unconscious contents becomes excessive, they discharge themselves from the unconscious and are projected.

The animating principle of mana, the effect of magic, the magical efficacy of spirits, and the reality of collective ideas, dreams, and ordeals are all governed by the laws of this interior reality which modern depth psychology is trying to bring to the surface.

The center common to conscious action through the will and to conscious knowledge through cognition is, however, the ego.

A masculinidade é vinculada com o ego e com a consciência, ela rompeu deliberadamente a relação com a natureza e com o destino em que a consciência matriarcal tem tão profundas raízes.

The inside "expresses" itself by way of the symbol.

In other words, the feminine image extricates itself from the grip of the Terrible Mother, a process known in analytical psychology as the crystallization of the anima from the mother archetype.

Perseus defeats the unconscious through the typical act of conscious realization.

Man experiences the "masculine" structure of his conscious as peculiarly his own, and the "feminine" unconscious as something alien to him, whereas woman feels at home in her unconscious and out of her element in consciousness.

A significant analogy may be found in dreams, which are compensations of consciousness directed by centroversion.

Similarly, at the stage of the son who separates the World Parents, and its equivalent the fight with the dragon, there is not only a change of content but a changed level of emotionality.

Though the anima figure also has transpersonal characteristics, she is closer to the ego, and contact with her is not only possible, but is the source of all fruitfulness.

Although standing from the very beginning under the motto "Away from the unconscious," the ego, as the organ of centre-version, must never lose touch with it, for it is an essential part of its natural balancing function to give the transpersonal world its due place.

the conscious state is the late and uncommon phenomenon, and its complete attainment is far more of a rarity than modern man so flatteringly pretends, while the unconscious state is the original, basic, psychic situation

The danger of alienation from the unconscious presents itself in two forms: sclerosis of consciousness, and possession.

Liberation and free activity only become possible when the ego system has more libido at its disposal than the retentive system, i.e., when the ego's will is strong enough to break away from the corresponding archetype.

although science could pinpoint the exact spot in the brain that ignites rage, they had yet to identify the location that produces love.

We continue to live in the dulled, sticky mess of the psychology of religion, which has answers to everything, none of which are true.

Binswanger's vision of this pathological but visceral gestalt deeply influenced Dick's construction of the various idios kosmoi in his works.65

Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child's spirit; for such mutilation undercuts the life principle of trust, without which every human act, may it feel ever so good and seem ever so right is prone to perversion by destructive forms of conscientiousness.

Behind every man's insistence on masculine superiority there is an age-old envy of women.

Holmes was charming and gracious, but something about him made Belknap uneasy. He could not have defined it. Indeed, for the next several decades alienists and their successors would find themselves hard-pressed to describe with any precision what it was about men like Holmes that could cause them to seem warm and ingratiating but also telegraph the vague sense that some important element of humanness was missing.

Fear can be passed on to others and, similar to fear of flying, its smell can be sensed by people in outlandish places or fussy situations. Its apprehension may be nasal or actuated through our brain, our memory or the sensorial spread, and not at the least through a sixth sense. (One could still feel the smell of fear )