Carl Jung
Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology and became one of the most influential interpreters of the spiritual dimension of the human mind in the twentieth century. Born in 1875 in Kesswil, Switzerland, he was Sigmund Freud's most famous collaborator and then his most consequential dissenter, breaking with Freud in 1913 over the role of the spiritual in the unconscious. His concepts — the collective unconscious, archetypes, individuation, the shadow, the anima and animus, synchronicity — became foundational vocabulary for the contemplative-psychological turn of the late twentieth century. His Red Book, published posthumously in 2009, revealed a contemplative practitioner of extraordinary depth. He died in 1961 in Küsnacht; his Bollingen Tower remains a place of pilgrimage for serious students of his work.
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Quotes by Carl Jung
120 quotes“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.”
acceptanceModern Man in Search of a Soul
“To this day, God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly.”
GodLetters
“The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul.”
dreamsMemories, Dreams, Reflections
“Symbols are the manifestations and expressions of the excess libido.”
symbolThe Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
“The soul demands your folly, not your wisdom.”
soulThe Red Book
“My soul, where are you? Do you hear me? I speak, I call you — are you there?”
soulThe Red Book
“He who looks outside, dreams. He who looks inside, awakes.”
interiorMemories, Dreams, Reflections
“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
mindMemories, Dreams, Reflections
“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine, or idealism.”
addictionMemories, Dreams, Reflections
“I would rather be whole than good.”
wholenessThe Red Book
“Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.”
wisdomModern Man in Search of a Soul
“The patient is not a problem to be solved but a soul to be encountered.”
encounterMemories, Dreams, Reflections
“The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.”
familyMemories, Dreams, Reflections
“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”
orderThe Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
“Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth.”
mistakesMemories, Dreams, Reflections
“The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.”
psycheMemories, Dreams, Reflections
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
unconsciousModern Man in Search of a Soul
“The healthy man does not torture others. Generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.”
traumaModern Man in Search of a Soul
“Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light but making the darkness conscious.”
awakeningPsychology and Alchemy
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