Quotes About Psychology

Luna is really the mother of the Sun, which means, psychologically, that the unconscious is pregnant with consciousness and gives birth to it.

Pero cuánto sabe el hombre de sí mismo? Según toda la experiencia, muy poco. Para lo inconsciente queda, por lo tanto, mucho espacio libre.

La violence n'est qu'une surcompensation du doute.

Tanr? sadece nur deÄŸil, bir aÄŸaç yeÅŸerdiÄŸinde açan son çiçektir. Tüm yarat?lanlar?n sonunda varaca?? kurtuluÅŸ noktas? deÄŸildir yaln?zca ya da sadece tüm varl???n eksiksiz ve kusursuz hal? deÄŸildir. Tanr? ayn? zamanda tüm temel belirsizliklerin en çapra??k ve gizli sebepleridir. OlaÄŸanüstü paradokslar? içine alan derin ve psikolojik bir hakikattir.

Che non si debba amare sé stessi, è una sorta di pregiudizio nevrotico tardo-cristiano.

ViaÅ£a afectiv? a introvertitului este în genere latura lui slaba., aceea pe care nu se poate neaparat conta. El se iluzioneaz? singur in aceasta privinta. iar alÅ£ii se iluzioneaz? si se deziluzioneaz? în leg?tur? cu el, dac? îi iau în calcul doar afectivitatea. Spiritul îi este mai sigur, caci este mai adaptat. Natura afectivit??ii sale este prea nedomolit?.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

There's no coming to consciousness without pain.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.

This inner world is truly infinite, in no way poorer than the outer one. Man lives in two worlds. Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 264

The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

From the viewpoint of analytic psychology, the theatre, aside from any aesthetic value, may be considered as an institution for the treatment of the mass complex.

The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time....

A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

The healthy man does not torture others -- generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.

The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.

I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

In the interview, he gave an example of a man who falls head over heels in love, then later in life regrets his blind choice as he finds that he has married his own anima–the unconscious idea of the feminine in his mind, rather than the woman herself.