Quotes About Psychology

This new thought was a turning-point in the development of my psychology. It meant that I gradually gave up following associations that led far away from the text of a dream. I chose to concentrate rather on the associations to the dream itself, believing that the latter expressed something specific that the unconscious was trying to say.

Co jednou upadlo do nevÄ›domí, to nevÄ›domí podrží bez ohledu na to, zda tím vÄ›domí trpí nebo ne. VÄ›domí m?že umírat hlady a zimou, zatímco v nevÄ›domí se to zelená a kvete.

He was the man I mentioned who was obsessed by the idea that he had cancer, although X-rays had proved to him that it was all imaginary. Who or what caused this idea? It obviously derived from a fear that was not caused by observation of the facts. It suddenly overcame him and then remained.

The morbid thought had a power of its own that he could not control. It was not foreseen in his philosophical brand of psychology, where everything flowed neatly from consciousness and sense-perception. The professor admitted that his case was pathological, but there his thinking stopped, because it had arrived at the sacrosanct border-line between the philosophical and the medical faculty.

The fact that many clergymen seek support or practical help from Freud's theory of sexuality or Adler's theory of power is astonishing, inasmuch as both these theories are hostile to spiritual values, being, as I have said, psychology without the psyche. They are rational methods of treatment which actually hinder the realization of meaningful experience.

Hasta que no hagas consciente lo que llevas en tu inconsciente, este último dirigirá tu vida y tú le llamarás destino

Psihologia individului corespunde îns? psihologiei naÈ›iunilor. Ceea ce fac naÈ›iunile face È™i individul È™i, atâta timp cât face individul, face È™i naÈ›iunea. Doar schimbarea atitudinii individului este începutul schimb?rii psihologiei naÈ›iunii. Marile probleme ale omenirii nu au fost niciodat? rezolvate prin legi generale, ci întotdeauna doar prin reînnoirea atitudinii individului.

Bilincin olmad??? yerde, pratik anlamda bir yaÅŸam yoktur, çünkü dünya ancak bir psiÅŸe taraf?ndan bilinçli olarak düÅŸünüldüÄŸü ve bilinçli olarak ifade edildiÄŸi sürece varolabilir. Bilinç, varolman?n önkoÅŸuludur.

Es sorprendente la transformación que se opera en el carácter de un individuo al irrumpir en él las fuerzas colectivas. Un ser humano afable y sensato puede tornarse un maníaco o una bestia salvaje.

Quien mira hacia fuera, sueña. Quien mira hacia adentro, despierta

sonhos: o sonho retrata a situação interna do sonhador, cuja verdade e realidade o consciente reluta em aceitar ou não aceita de todo.

Neurosis is an inner cleavage—the state of being at war with oneself.

The neurotic who seeks to get rid of the necessities of life wins nothing and lays upon himself the frightful burden of a premature age and death, which must appear especially cruel on account of the total emptiness and meaninglessness of his life.

A clear differentiation of the conscious man from his unconscious is imperative, since only by the assimilation of conscious standpoints will clarity and understanding be gained, but never by a process of reduction to the unconscious backgrounds, sidelights, quarter-tones.

DüÅŸünme ve hissetme içsel z?tl?klar?n? kaybediyorlar ve art?k dinsel yönelimin etkisiz olduÄŸu yerde, zincirlerinden boÅŸanan ruhsal fonksiyonlar?n y?k?c? hakimiyetini frenleyecek bir tanr? bile yok...

Mass psychology is egoism raised to an inconceivable power, for its goal is immanent and not transcendent.

We can say, then, that the concept of libido in psychology has functionally the same significance as the concept of energy in physics since the time of Robert Mayer.32

Freud has unfortunately overlooked the fact that man has never yet been able single-handed to hold his own against the powers of darkness—that is, of the unconscious.

When an idea is so old and so generally believed, it must be true in some way, by which I mean that it is psychologically true.

Suç, nesiller önce iÅŸlenmiÅŸ olsa da, bugün iÅŸleniyor olsa da, her zaman ve her yerde olan bir eÄŸilimin semptomu olmaya devam etmektedir. Dolay?s?yla insan biraz "kötülüÄŸü hayal etse" iyi olurdu, zira ancak bir aptal kendi doÄŸas?n?n durumunu sürekli olarak görmezden gelebilir.

Repression, as we have seen, is not directed solely against sexuality, but against the instincts in general, which are the vital foundations, the laws governing all life.

People cannot stand too much reality.

Bilinci ne kadar geniÅŸlemiÅŸ ve farkl?laÅŸm??sa, ahlaki yap?s? o denli geri kalm??t?r. Ä°ÅŸte bugün önümüzdeki sorun budur. Ak?l tek ba??na yeterli deÄŸildir.

Thus the Mithraic killing of the bull is a sacrifice to the Terrible Mother, to the unconscious, which spontaneously attracts energy from the conscious mind because it has strayed too far from its roots