Carl Gustav Jung (July 26, 1875 – June 6, 1961), often referred to as
C.G. Jung, was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded
analytical psychology. Jung proposed and developed the concepts of
extraversion and introversion; archetypes, and the collective
unconscious. His work has been influential in psychiatry and in the
study of religion, philosophy, archeology, anthropology, literature, and
related fields. He was a prolific writer, many of whose works were not
published until after his death. (Click
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A man who has never passed through the inferno of his passions has never
overcome them.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to
kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Beautiful bodies and beautiful personalities rarely go together.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word
happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be
alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an
understanding of ourselves.
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.
I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I
cannot explain as a fraud.
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should
first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better
be changed in ourselves.
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the
darknesses of other people.
No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of
equivalent intensity.
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is
without trouble.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment,
and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents.
One cannot live without inconsistency.
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing
their own souls.
Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most
tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight
against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.
Reason alone does not suffice.
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because
it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's
own being.
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally
insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
The healthy man does not torture others- generally it is the tortured
who turn into torturers.
The inner voice is at once our greatest danger and an indispensable help.
The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but
in our working at it incessantly.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical
substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not
between right and wrong.
The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell
their stories.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for
living that fits all cases.
There's no coming to consciousness without pain.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and
you will call it fate.
What you resist, persists.
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power
predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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(Today is also the birthday of Thomas
Mann.)
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"This is Dr. Niles Crane, filling in for my ailing brother, Dr. Frasier
Crane. Although I feel perfectly qualified to fill Frasier's radio
shoes, I should warn you that while Frasier is a Freudian, I am a
Jungian. So there'll be no blaming Mother today."
-dialogue
from "Frasier Crane's Day Off," written by James Burrows
Season
1, episode 23 of the NBC television series "Frasier"
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