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Quotes by Carl G. Jung |
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| ". . . man
brings with him at birth the ground-plan of his nature. . . ."
(_CW_ 4: 728)
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| ". . . man
brings with him at birth the ground-plan of his nature. . . ."
(_CW_ 4: 728)
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| ". . .
poets . . . create from the very depths of the collective unconscious,
voicing aloud what others only dream." (_CW_ 6: 323)
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| "Only what
is really oneself has the power to heal." (_CW_ 7: 258)
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| "What is
stirred in us is that faraway background, those immemorial patterns of
the human mind, which we have not acquired but have inherited from the
dim ages of the past." ("The Structure of the Psyche"
[_CW_ 8: 315])
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| "Just as
the body bears the traces of its phylogenetic development, so also does
the human mind." ("General Aspects of Dream Psychology"
[_CW_ 8: 475])
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| "There is
no consciousness without discrimination of opposites." (_CW_ 9i:
178)
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| "How else
could it have occurred to man to divide the cosmos, on the analogy of
day and night, summer and winter, into a bright day-world and a dark
night-world peopled with fabulous monsters, unless he had the prototype
of such a division in himself, in the polarity between the conscious and
the invisible and unknowable unconscious?" (_CW_ 9i: 187)
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| "The
darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the
unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two twilight
figures, the shadow and the anima, step into our nightly visions or,
remaining invisible, take possession of our ego-consciousness."
(_CW_ 9i: 222)
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| ". . . the
anima is bipolar and can therefore appear positive one moment and
negative the next; now young, now old; now mother, now maiden; now a
good fairy, now a witch; now a saint, now a whore." (_CW_ 9i: 356)
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| "In some
way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single
'greatest man. . . .'" ("The Spiritual Problem of Modern
Man" [_CW_ 10: 175])
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| "The
upheaval of our world and the upheaval of our consciouness are one and
the same." ("The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man" [_CW_
10: 177])
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| ". . . the
spirit is the life of the body seen from within, and the body the
outward manifestation of the life of the spirit--the two being really
one. . . ." ("The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man" [_CW_
10: 195])
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| "The dream
is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the
soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there
was any ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how
far our ego-consciousness extends." (_CW_ 10: 304)
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| "You can
take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return." (_The_Undiscovered_Self_
[_CW_ 10: 544])
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| ". . .
every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul. . .
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| "It is,
moreover, only in the state of complete abandonment and loneliness that
we experience the helpful powers of our own natures."
("Psychotherapists or the Clergy" [_CW_ 11: 525])
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| ". . .
what is meant [by the child archetype] is the boy who is born from the
maturity of the adult man, and not the unconscious child we would like
to remain." (_Answer_to_Job_ [_CW_ 11: 742])
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| ". . .
even the enlightened person . . . is never more than his own limited ego
before the One who dwells within him, whose form has no knowable
boundaries, who encompasses him on all sides, fathomless as the abysms
of the earth and vast as the sky." (_Answer_to_Job_ [_CW_ 11: 758])
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| "The world
of gods and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious
inside me." ("On 'The Tibetan Book of the Dead" [_CW_ 11:
857])
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| ". . . the
mother stands for the collective unconscious, the source of the water of
life. . . ." ("Individual Dream Symbolism . . ." [_CW_
12: 92])
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| "The
primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human
being, or a process--that constantly recurs in the course of history and
appears wherever creative fantasy is freely expressed. Essentially,
therefore, it is a mythological figure. . . . In each of these images
there is a little piece of human psychology and human fate, a remnant of
the joys and sorrows that have been repeated countless times in our
ancestral history. . . ." ("On the Relation of Analytical
Psychology to Poetry" [_CW_ 15: 127])
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| "At such
moments ["when an archetypal situation occurs"] we are no
longer individuals, but the race. . . ." ("On the Relation of
Analytical Psychology to Poetry" [_CW_ 15: 128])
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| "Whoever
speaks in primordial images speaks with a thousand voices. . . ."
("On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry" [_CW_
15: 129])
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| "The
unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image
in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and
one-sidedness of the present." ("On the Relation of Analytical
Psychology to Poetry" [_CW_ 15: 130])
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| "Have the
horrors of the World War done nothing to open our eyes, so that we still
cannot see that the conscious mind is even more devilish and perverse
than the naturalness of the unconscious?" (_CW_ 16: 327)
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| "Every man
carries within him the eternal image of woman. . . . This image is
fundamentally unconscious, an hereditary factor of primordial origin . .
. an imprint or 'archetype' of all the ancestral experiences of the
female, a deposit, as it were, of all the impressions ever made by
woman. . . ." ("Marriage as a Psychological Relationship"
[_CW_ 17: 338])
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| "Life has
always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true
life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above
ground lasts only a single summer. What we see is the blossom, which
passes. The rhizome remains. (_MDR_, "Prologue")
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| "I can
still recall vividly how Freud said to me, 'My dear Jung, promise me
never to abandon the sexual theory. . . . we must make a dogma of it, an
unshakable bulwark. In some astonishment I asked him, 'A
bulwark--against what?' To which he replied, 'Against the black tide of
mud'--and here he hesitated for a moment, then added--'of
occultism.'" (_MDR_, Ch. 5)
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| "Archetypes
speak the language of high rhetoric, even of bombast." (_MDR_, Ch.
6)
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| "At times
I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and
am myself living in every tree, in the plashing of the waves, in the
clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the
seasons." (_MDR_, Ch. 8)
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| "I am an
orphan, alone; nevertheless I am found everywhere. I am one, but opposed
to myself. I am youth and old man at one and the same time. I have known
neither father nor mother, because I have had to be fetched out of the
deep like a fish, or fell like a white stone from heaven. In woods and
mountains I roam, but I am hidden in the innermost soul of man. I am
mortal for everyone, yet I am not touched by the cycle of aeons."
(_MDR_, Ch. 8)
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| ". . . we have plunged down a cataract of progress which sweeps us on into the future with ever wilder violence the farther it takes us from our roots." (_MDR_, Ch. 8) | |
| "Knowledge
does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in
which we were once at home by right of birth." (_MDR_, Ch. 9)
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| "The
longing for light is the longing for consciousness." (_MDR_, Ch. 9)
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| "A belief
proves to me only the phenomenon of belief, not the content of the
belief." (_MDR_, Ch. 11)
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| ". . .
Christianity slumbers and has neglected to develop its myth further in
the course of the centuries. . . . Our myth has become mute, and gives
no answers." (_MDR_, Ch. 12)
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| "When
people say I am wise, or a sage, I cannot accept it. A man once dipped a
hatful of water from a stream. What did that amount to? I am not that
stream. I am at the stream, but I do nothing. Other people are at the
same stream, but most of them find they have to do something with it. I
do nothing. I never think that I am the one who must see to it that
cherries grow on stalks. I stand and behold, admiring what nature can
do." (_MDR_, "Retrospect")
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| "Upon
every gift that cometh from the god-sun the devil layeth his
curse." (_MDR_, Appendix V ["Septem Sermones ad Mortuos"])
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| "The
deeper 'layers' of the psyche lose their individual uniqueness as they
retreat further and further into darkness. . . . they become
increasingly collective until they are universalized and extinguished in
the body's materiality. . . . Hence 'at bottom' the psyche is simply
'world.'" ("The Special Phenomenology of the Child
Archetype" [pt. 2] [_Psyche_&_Symbol_])
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| "The sea
is the favorite symbol for the unconscious, the mother of all that
lives." ("Special Phenomenology" [pt. 4] [_Psyche_&_
_Symbol_])
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| "A
collective problem, if not recognized as such, always appears as a
personal problem."
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| "A man who
has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome
them."
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| "Everything
that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of
ourselves."
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| "If a man
knows more than others, he becomes lonely."
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| "Only the
wounded physician heals."
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| "Psychological
insecurity . . . increases in proportion to social security."
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| "Sentimentality
is the superstructure erected upon brutality."
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| "The more
Christian one's consciousness is, the more heathenishly does the
unconscious behave."
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| "When you
come to think about it, nothing has any meaning, for when there was
nobody to think, there was nobody to interpret what happened."
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| CW:
"Collected Works"
MDR: "Memories, Dreams, Reflections" [N.B.: 2nd # in _CW_ citations refers to paragraph/section #, NOT page #] |
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