Quotes About Psychology

If I have served you as the representative of certain objects, you have led me from a too rigorous observation of external things and their relations back into myself. You have taught me to view the many-sidedness of the inner man with more justice.43

Whoever confuses these last two functions with feeling in this narrower sense, can obviously not acknowledge the rationality of feeling. But if they are separated from feeling, it becomes quite clear that feeling values and feeling judgements—that is to say, our feelings—are not only reasonable, but are also as discriminating, logical and consistent as thinking.

I'm sometimes driven to the conclusion that boring people need treatment more urgently than mad people.

To put it in modern psychological language, this projection of the hieros gamos signifies the conjunction of conscious and unconscious, the transcendent function characteristic of the individuation process. Integration of the unconscious invariably has a healing effect.

This increase in self-knowledge is still very rare nowadays and is usually paid for in advance with a neurosis, if not with something worse.

just as the wounder wounds himself, so the healer heals himself.

There were things in the images which concerned not only myself but many others also. It was then that I ceased to belong to myself alone

When religious symbols that are partly different from those we know emerge from the unconscious of an individual, it is often feared that these will wrongfully alter or diminish the officially recognized religious symbols. This fear even causes many people to reject analytical psychology and the entire unconscious.

For that matter, does a thing or a fact ever mean anything in and of itself? We can only be sure that it is always the human being who interprets, that is, gives meaning to a fact. And that is the gist of the matter for psychology.

If I recognize only nat- uralistic values, and explain everything in physical terms, I shall depreciate, hinder, or even destroy the spiritual development of my patients. And if I hold exclusively to a spiritual interpretation, then I shall misunderstand and do violence to the nat- ural man in his right to exist as a physical being.

It is of especial importance for me to know as much as possible about primitive psychology, mythology, archæology and comparative religion, for the reason that these fields afford me priceless analogies with which I can enrich the associations of my patients.

If you feel an overwhelming rage coming up in you when a friend reproaches you about a fault, you can be fairly sure that at this point you will find a part of your shadow, of which you are unconscious.

To return to the question of my technique, I ask myself to what extent I am indebted to Freud. In any case I learned it from Freud's method of free association, and I regard my technique as a further development of this method.

When the neurotic complains that the world does not understand him, he is telling us in a word that he wants his mother.

Psychologically you develop in a spiral, you always come over the same point where you have been before, but it is never exactly the same, it is either above or below. A patient will say, 'I am just at the place where I was three years ago,' but I say, 'At least you have travelled three years.

The Lingam is certainly not an obscene allusion; nor is the cross merely a sign of death. Much depends upon the maturity of the dreamer who produces such an image.

The interpretation of dreams and symbols demands intelligence. It cannot be turned into a mechanical system and then crammed into unimaginative brains. It demands both an increasing knowledge of the dreamer's individuality and an increasing self-awareness on the part of the interpreter

Równie dobrze mo?na ja?n okreÅ›li? jako ,,Boga w nas

O funcÈ›ionare incorect? a psihicului poate d?una în mare m?sur? corpului, dup? cum, invers, o suferin?? fizic? poate s? atrag? participarea la suferin?? a sufletului; c?ci sufletul È™i corpul nu sunt ceva separat, ci sunt mai degrab? una È™i aceeaÈ™i via??. Astfel, rareori exist? o boal? a corpului care s? nu fie complicat? psihic, chiar dac? nu este determinat? psihic.

For an inwardly sound and self-confident person will be more adequate to his social tasks than one who is not on good terms with his unconscious.

In reality fantasies mean much more than that, for they represent at the same time the other mechanism—of repressed extraversion in the introvert, and of repressed introversion in the extravert.

The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work.

LékaÃ…â"¢ská diagnóza není obžaloba a nemoc není žádná hanba, ale neÅ¡tÄ›stí.

Whether the shadow becomes our friend or enemy depends largely upon ourselves. As the dreams of the unexplored house and the French desperado both show, the shadow is not necessarily always an opponent. In fact, he is exactly like any human being with whom one has to get along, sometimes by giving in, sometimes by resisting, sometimes by giving love—whatever the situation requires. The shadow becomes hostile only when he is ignored or misunderstood