Quotes About Psychology

It must not be forgotten that it is just in the imagination that a man's highest value may lie.

adaptedness) of the conscious mind by adding to it contents of the unconscious, our aim is to create a wider personality whose centre of gravity does not necessarily coincide with the ego, but which, on the contrary, as the patient's insights increase, may even thwart his [sheer] ego-tendencies. Like a magnet, the new centre [i.e., self] attracts to itself that which is proper to it.80

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The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium.

If we follow the history of a neurosis with attention, we regularly find a critical moment when some problem emerged that was evaded.

it would be a serious misunderstanding to confuse the existence of problems with neurosis. There is a marked difference between the two in that the neurotic is ill because he is unconscious of his problems. . .

by repressing disagreeable thoughts she created something like a psychic vacuum which, as usually happens, gradually became filled with anxiety. Had she troubled herself consciously with her thoughts she would have known what was lacking, and she would then have needed no anxiety states as a substitute for the absence of conscious suffering.

In the last resort it is highly improbable that there could ever be a therapy that got rid of all difficulties. Man needs difficulty; they are necessary for health. What concerns us here is only an excessive amount of them.

It is our own repressed desires that stick like arrows in our flesh.

It is in no sense sufficient to try to do so with nothing but a personalistically oriented psychology. Anyone who wants to treat serious dissociations must know something of the anatomy and evolutionary history of the mind he is setting out to cure.

We might perhaps say that the thinking of the introvert is rational, while that of the extravert is programmatic.

the psychic disorders of children are more often than not causally connected with the psychology of the parents, and in most cases one would do well to pay more attention to the faulty attitude of parents and educators than to the child's psyche, which in itself would function correctly if it were not disturbed by the harmful influence of the parents.

Es hecho bien conocido en los manicomios que los enfermos de miedo son harto más peligrosos que los impulsados por la ira o el odio.

there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.

Aún cuando algunos padezcan problemas idénticos a los míos, nadie tendrá los mismos sueños que yo.

Dreams, visions, fantasies, and delusions are expressive of a situation.

That the highest summit of life can be expressed through the symbolism of death is a well-known fact, for any growing beyond oneself means death.

But this one-sided development must inevitably lead to a reaction, since the suppressed inferior functions cannot be indefinitely excluded from participating in our life and development. The time will come when the division in the inner man must be abolished, in order that the undeveloped may be granted an opportunity to live.

If we seek genuine psychological understanding of the human being of our own time, we must know his spiritual history absolutely. We cannot reduce him to mere biological data, since he is not by nature merely biological but is a product also of spiritual presuppositions.

But just as conscious contents can vanish into the unconscious, new contents, which have never yet been conscious, can arise from it.

The sensation type is in every respect the converse of the intuitive. He relies almost exclusively on his sense impressions, and his whole psychology is oriented by instinct and sensation. He is therefore entirely dependent on external stimuli.

I was unable to understand how a perfectly rational argument could meet with such emotional resistance.

Até você se tornar consciente, o inconsciente irá dirigir sua vida e você vai chamá-lo de destino

Jung's search for the soul, then, stands at one with the search for appropriately dialogical and differentiated language.