Quotes About Psychology

the spirit of regression, [which] threatens us with bondage to the mother and with dissolution and extinction in the unconscious.

The archetypal image decides the fate of man.

If such a compensatory move of the unconscious is not integrated into consciousness in an individual, it leads to a neurosis or even to a psychosis.

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

To the superficial observer, it will appear like madness.

We should not try to "get rid" of a neurosis, but rather to experience what it means, what it has to teach, what its purpose is.

It makes no difference that there were already conflicts in childhood, for the conflicts in childhood are different from the conflict of adults. Those who have suffered ever since childhood from a chronic neurosis do not suffer now from the same conflict they suffered from then.

Man's task is…to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious. Neither should he persist in his unconsciousness nor remain identical with the unconscious elements of his being, thus evading his destiny, which is to create more and more consciousness. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

All parental difficulties reflect themselves without fail in the psyche of the child, sometimes with pathological results.

A neurosis…is not a disgrace…It is not a fatal disease, but it does grow worse to the degree that one is determined to ignore it.

In each of us there is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves.

In order to make the language of dreams understood, we use many parallels from the psychology of primitive races as well as from historical symbolism. This is because dreams originate in the unconscious, which contains the residual potentialities of function of all preceding epochs of evolution.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light," he said, "but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

A] sense of moral inferiority" writes Jung "always indicates that the missing element is something which, to judge by this feeling about it, really ought not to be missing, or which could be made conscious if only one took sufficient trouble. . .Whenever a sense of moral inferiority appears, it indicates not only a need to assimilate an unconscious component, but also the possibility of such assimilation.

The psychologist has come to see that nothing is achieved by telling, persuading, admonishing, giving good advice.

modern people…are ignorant of what they really are. We have simply forgotten what a human being really is, so we have men like Nietzsche and Freud and Adler, who tell us what we are, quite mercilessly. We have to discover our shadow. Otherwise we are driven into a world war in order to see what beasts we are.

Nevroz, anlam?n? arayan ruhun ac? çekmesidir.

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

once an experience is fully in awareness, fully accepted, then it can be coped with effectively, like any other clear reality.

I am less and less a creature of influences in myself which operate beyond my ken in the realms of the unconscious. I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality, my 'isness,' become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.

Behavior is basically the goal-directed attempt of the organism to satisfy its needs as experienced, in the field as perceived.