Quotes About Psychology

In contemporary psychological language, efficiency is a primary mode of denial.

VieÈ›ile noastre sunt modelate mai puÈ›in de experienÈ›a copil?riei propriu-zis?, cât de maniera în care am fost înv??aÈ›i s? ne-o imagin?m. Suntem mai puÈ›in traumatizaÈ›i (...) de întâmpl?rile copil?riei, cât de maniera traumatizant? în care ne amintim copil?ria.

The first way has been excellently presented by David Holt in his lecture on "Jung and Marx." [1] There Holt shows that Jung imagined his work to be theoretically and historically substantiated by alchemy, and that Jung spent a

Psihologia noastr? vulgarizat? nu are alte explicaÈ›ii în afar? de parentalism È™i teorii ale dezvolt?rii pentru singur?tatea original? È™i efectul de izolare pe care îl imprim? chemarea daimonic?, în cazul lui Hitler, cât È™i al restului criminalilor înn?scuÈ›i.

the connection between psychology and literature, to suggest their interchangeability.

This is why Jung observed that the greatest burden the child must bear is the unlived life of the parent.

What we have become is typically an assemblage of defense mechanisms and anxiety-management systems generated by the adaptive needs that our fate-fueled biographies bring to us.

We have to recall the functional definition of the Shadow as that which renders us uncomfortable in confronting in ourselves.

Was a particular person a "saint" because she sacrificed her own journey in service to others; was her life as lived in fact her authentic journey, or was she driven by complexes so powerful as to render her incapable of choosing anything else?

Depth psychology understands that the goal of life is not happiness, which is only transiently possible anyhow, but meaning, which abides.

Generally speaking, people are drawn toward intimate relationships either because they are opposites who will compensate each other, or because they are complementary, which means that not only their conscious likes and dislikes line up, but their complexes as well.

Psychiatry today is less a psychotherapeutic enterprise than a pharmacological crapshoot

was her life as lived in fact her authentic journey, or was she driven by complexes so powerful as to render her incapable of choosing anything else?

Folk wisdom observes that lovers are fools, lovers are blind; we also speak of a folie a deux because in this mutually projective state, the person is acting not out of a conscious relationship to reality, but out of the archaic and often overwhelming power of personal history.

the Sage of Koenigsburg, Immanuel Kant, ended traditional metaphysics and made modern psychology necessary by discerning that we never know reality directly;

The Shadow is not just what is unconscious, it is what discomforts the sense of self we wish to have.

one is an observation by that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it tends to happen outside, as fate. Now its a pretty scary thought, whatever i am not aware of is likely to enter my world from the outside.

Each of us is a prisoner to some degree of his dream.

So, then, now you know your task: to become what the gods want, not what your parents want, not what your tribe wants, but what the gods want, and what your psyche will support if consciousness so directs.

The meaning of the midlife affair is the imperative to go back and pick up what was left behind in one's development. Since what was undeveloped agitates from below consciousness, it is still unknown.

Shame ain't a spontaneous emotion; shame is an induced emotion.

Just where is, he thought, the line that separates insanity?

they were yung and easily freudened..

Lawrence S. Kubie's book Neurotic Distortion of the Creative Process.