Quotes About Psychology

I had the distinct feeling that they were something central, and in time I acquired through them a living conception of the self.

whatever form it takes, the function of the shadow is to represent the opposite side of the ego and to embody just those qualities that one dislikes most in other people.

In my opinion, faith does not exclude thought (which is man's strongest weapon), but unfortunately many believers seem to be afraid of science (and incidentally of psychology) that they turn a blind eye to the numinous psychic powers that forever control man's fate. We have stripped all things of their mystery and numinosity; nothing is holy any longer.

retreat from life leads to regression, and regression heightens resistance to life.

This is one reason why all religions employ symbolic language or images. But this conscious use of symbols is only one aspect of a psychological fact of great importance: Man also produces symbols unconsciously and spontaneously, in the form of dreams.

Hence the extravert has the same repugnance, fear, or silent contempt for introversion as the introvert for extraversion.

I felt positively relieved when I had actually done something wrong. Then at least I knew what my guilty conscience was for.

The foremost of his therapeutic principles is that conscious realization is an important agent for transforming the personality. The

become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

We have, therefore, two kinds of thinking: directed thinking, and dreaming or fantasy-thinking.

Whereas in its developments up to the present psychology has dealt chiefly with psychic processes in the light of physical causation, the future task of psychology will be the investigation of their spiritual determinants. But the natural history of the mind is no further advanced today than was natural science in the thirteenth century. We have only begun to take scientific note of our spiritual experiences.

It had been proved to me that I had to abandon the idea of the superordinate position of the ego.

un fapt psihologic oarecare nu poate fi niciodat? explicat total prin cauzalitatea lui; el este un fenomen viu, legat indestructibil de continuitatea procesului vital, în aÈ™a fel încât este, pe de-o parte, întotdeauna un ce care a devenit, pe de alta, un ce în curs de devenire, un ce creator.

For our more modest psychological purposes we must abandon the colourful metaphysical language of the East. What yoga aims at in this exercise is undoubtedly a psychic change in the adept. The ego is the expression of individual existence. The yogin exchanges his ego for Shiva or the Buddha; in this way he induces a shifting of the psychological centre of personality from the personal ego to the impersonal non-ego, which is now experienced as the real "Ground" of the personality.

Non-directed thinking is in the main subjectively motivated, and not so much by conscious motives as—far more—by unconscious ones.

Unfortunately 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. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions.

I cannot employ the language of science to trace this process of growth in myself, for I cannot experience myself as a scientific problem.

Para Jung, el yoga representaba un rico almacén de descripciones simbólicas de la experiencia interna y, en particular, del proceso de individuación. Sostenía que «se han observado destacados paralelismos con el yoga (por parte de la psicología analítica) especialmente con el yoga Kundalini y el simbolismo del yoga tántrico, el lamaísmo y el yoga taoísta en China.

An invasion from the unconscious is very dangerous for the conscious mind when the latter is not in a position to understand and integrate the contents that have irrupted into it.

Les rêves sont des compensations de l'attitude consciente. (p. 220)

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The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

This, ultimately, is the lesson to come away with from our brief foray into the world of experimental psychology: To build your working life around the experience of flow produced by deep work is a proven path to deep satisfaction.