Quotes About Psychology

The symbol-producing function of our dreams is an attempt to bring our original mind back to consciousness, where it has never been before, and where it has never undergone critical self-reflection. We have been that mind, but we have never known it.

But as soon as he has outgrown whatever local form of religion he was born to—as soon as this religion can no longer embrace his life in all its fullness—then the psyche becomes something in its own right which cannot be dealt with by the measures of the Church alone.

The subject of transformation is not the empirical man, however much he may identify with the "old Adam," but Adam the Primordial Man, the archetype within us. The

The figure of the Trickster] is the collective shadow.

In my picture of the world there is a vast outer realm and an equally vast inner realm; between these two stands man, facing now one and now the other, and, according to his mood or disposition, taking the one for the absolute truth by denying or sacrificing the other.

Întâlnirea cu oameni de cele mai diverse tipuri È™i niveluri psihologice a avut pentru mine o însemn?tate incomparabil mai mare decât o discuÈ›ie fragmentar? cu o celebritate. ConversaÈ›iile cele mai frumoase È™i înc?rcate de semnificaÈ›ii È™i de consecinÈ›e pe care le-am purtat în viaÈ›a mea sunt anonime.

I found sometimes, that it is of great help in handling such a case, to encourage them, to express their peculiar contents either in the form of writing or of drawing and painting. There are so many incomprehensible intuitions in such cases, phantasy fragments that rise from the unconscious, for which there is almost no suitable language. I let my patients find their own symbolic expressions, their "mythology.

If You Pay Close Attention, You will See that the Most Masculine Man has a Feminine Soul, and the Most Feminine Woman has a Masculine Soul.

The relation between conscious and unconscious is compensatory. This fact, which is easily verifiable, affords a rule for dream interpretation. It is always helpful, when we set out to interpret a dream, to ask: What conscious attitude does it compensate?

Creativeness, like the freedom of the will, contains a secret. The psychologist can describe both these manifestations as processes, but he can find no solution of the philosophical problems they offer.

The hero who clings to the mother is the dragon, and when the hero is reborn from the mother he becomes the conqueror of the dragon.

Like all numinous contents, they have a tendency to self-amplification, that is to say they form the nuclei for an aggregation of synonyms. These

It is always helpful, when we set out to interpret a dream, to ask: What conscious attitude does it compensate

The dream-content is to be taken in all seriousness as something that has actually happened to us; it should be treated as a contributory factor in framing our conscious outlook.

Nosotros no suponemos que la mente sea una entidad metafísica, y tampoco pensamos que exista una relación entre la mente individual y una hipotética Mente Universal (Universal Mind). Por ello, nuestra psicología es una ciencia que versa sobre simples fenómenos y se halla absolutamente huérfana de implicaciones metafísicas.

Tik saugok Dieve nuo bet kokios psichologijos, juk per tok? ištvirkim? dar imsi ir pažinsi save!

Por ello, la psicología parte del supuesto de que la mente no puede ni constatar ni demostrar la existencia de aquello que se encuentra fuera de sus fronteras.

A man who is possessed by his shadow is always standing in his own light and falling into his own traps...living below his own level.

Dreams pave the way for life, and they determine you without you understanding their language.

The fact is that if one tries beyond one's capacity to be perfect, the shadow descends into hell and becomes the devil.

NevÄ›domá anima je vyslovenÄ› bezvztahovou a autoerotickou bytostí, která netouží po ni?em, kromÄ› úplného ovládnutí jedince, ?ímž se muž stává zvláÅ¡tním a nepÃ…â"¢íznivým zp?sobem zženÅ¡tilým.

Gdy umarÅ'a, jej krewni powiedzieli mi, ?e w ostatnich miesiÄ…cach jej ?ycia charakter jakby od niej odpadaÅ' kawaÅ'ek po kawaÅ'ku, a? w koÅ"cu dziewczyna powróciÅ'a do stanu dwuletniego dziecka i tak zapadÅ'a w swój ostatni sen.

It is no reproach to the Freudian and Adlerian theories that they are based upon the drives; the only trouble is that they are one-sided. The kind of psychology they represent leaves out the psyche, and is suited to people who believe that they have no spiritual needs or aspirations.

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