Commentary by C.G. In this way he slips imperceptibly into a purely conceptual world where the products of his conscious activity progressively replace reality. ~Carl Jung; Red Book. (Book of Job; Para. ~Psychological Types Ch. Everything is “rational” that accords with these laws, everything that contravenes them is “irrational.”[Definitions, ibid” par. He has become a serious problem to himself, as he is now unable to say that they do this or that, they are wrong, and they must be fought against. note: what Teilhard de Chardin called the origin of the “noosphere,” the layer of “mind”]. Carl Jung Quotes on Creativity Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psychological ones. In a world where our attention span can be so fragile, […] Limiting ourselves doesn't allow room for creativity. (1952). I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. There is not much difference between them because the madman and the mob are both moved by impersonal, overwhelming forces. If, for instance, we conceive the opposition to be sensuality versus spirituality, then the mediatory content born out of the unconscious provides a welcome means of expression for the spiritual thesis, because of its rich spiritual associations, and also for the sensual antithesis, because of its sensuous imagery. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely … Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. The God is behind the Self above the Self the Self itself when he appears. After several fruitless attempts to sweeten her rationalism with a somewhat more human understanding, I had to confine myself to the hope that something unexpected and irrational would turn up, something that burst the intellectual retort into which she had sealed herself. ], • Active thinking is an act of the will; passive thinking is a mere occurrence. Carl Gustav Jung, Alchemical Studies, Collected Works 13, par.53, • [If the unconscious is] […] properly dealt with in one place only, it is influenced as a whole, i.e., simultaneously and everywhere. Jung. After this date the world of heroes and monsters spread like a devastating fire over whole nations, proving that the strange world of myth had suffered no loss of vitality during the centuries of reason and enlightenment. 797], • The shadow is merely somewhat inferior, primitive, unadapted, and awkward; not wholly bad. I opened the window and immediately and caught the insect in the air as it flew in. –“The Content of the Psychoses” — C.G. ~Carl Jung; Psychology and Religion, • Our aim is to create a wider personality whose center of gravity does not necessarily coincide with the ego, but which, on the contrary, may even thwart the ego-tendencies. CW 14: P.768, In my naturally limited experience there are, among people of maturer age, very many for whom the development of individuality is an indispensable requirement. ~”A Study in the Process of Individuation” (1934) In CW 9, Part I: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. • Everyone who becomes conscious of even a fraction of his unconscious gets outside his own time and social stratum into a kind of solitude. Jung proposed and developed the concepts of the extraverted and the introverted personality, archetypes, and … Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.” – Carl Jung. - Carl Jung. Psychological Commentary (written in 1939) by C.G. Secondly, a typology is a great help in understanding the wide variations that occur among individuals, and it also furnishes a clue to the fundamental differences in the psychological theories now current. 9, Part 1, 2nd ed., Princeton University Press, 1968. ~Carl Jung; Red Book. [“Psychological Factors in Human Behavior,” CW 8, par. The less we understand of what our [forebears] sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Neitzche called the spirit of gravity. par. The relatively undeveloped functions constitute a specific inferiority which is characteristic of each type and is an integral part of his total character. . . • In reality, the acceptance of the shadow-side of human nature verges on the impossible. – “The Relations Between the Ego and the Unconscious” (1953) In CW 7: Two Essays on Analytical Psychology. Then I wanted to grasp myself and then I wanted to go on again, without knowing what I wanted, and thus I fell into the mystery: ~In CW 4: Freud and Psychoanalysis. ~Carl Jung; Red Book. In CW 8: The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche. of unmarried mothers. Only a sick brain could produce such deceptions. You always become the thing you fight the most. (3) Consciousness constitutes the momentary process of adaptation, whereas the unconscious contains not only all the forgotten material of the individual’s own past, but all the inherited behavior traces constituting the structure of the mind [i.e., archetypes]. ~”Psychotherapy and a Philosophy of Life” (1943). 813.]. • The unconscious . ~The Undiscovered Self p 45, • You can take away a man’s gods, but only to give him others in return. On the contrary, he is thankful that somewhere a firm foothold exists that does not first have to be fished up out of the chaos, always a desperately difficult task. All these are so many rationalized substitutes for mythology, and their unnaturalness does more harm than good. In CW 4: Freud and Psychoanalysis. Our time requires something capable of regulating the mind. Therefore I would have felt only slippery, dead, dangerous, allegedly overcome, insipid, and mawkish things, and I would have pulled back with the same shudder I felt in turning from Salome. P.498, • No psychotherapist should lack that natural reserve which prevents people from riding roughshod over mysteries they do not understand and trampling them flat. 324, • One would do well to treat every dream as though it were a totally unknown object. . ~”On the Nature of Dreams” (1945). 199, • The art of interpreting dreams cannot be learnt from books. It would then be simply a matter of reading certain signs that stood for fixed contents, and for this it would only be necessary to learn a few semiotic rules by heart. In CW 9, Part I: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. Synchronicity acausality and occultism, dtv Verlag, Munich, 1990, • Again and again, events occurred that made me out of my normal everyday life also pushed into the unlimited “God’s world. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! His eyes lost their evil darting looks, and shone quietly and with understanding. “Psychological Types”, p.88, Routledge, Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1969). pg. 550, • Archetypes are complexes of experience that come upon us like fate, and their effects are felt in our most personal life. The horror has been accomplished. a purveyor of shoddy spiritual goods, . She throws her veil back-a beautiful maiden with ginger hair. No insight or objection is so strong that it could surpass the strength of this experience. ~”On the Nature of the Psyche” (1947). It is a struggle that cannot be abolished by rational means. I don’t paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality. The young neurotic shrinks back in terror from the expansion of life’s duties, the old one from the dwindling of the treasures he has attained. You make me a guilty party to this most hideous of all crimes.” P.507 pg. The archetypes are the great decisive forces, they bring about the real events, and not our personal reasoning and practical intellect . In such a manner, I arrive at his seriousness, and with this we reach common / ground where understanding is possible. [“Psychological Factors in Human Behavior,” CW 8, par. But it blooms only when the spirit and instinct are in true harmony. In this extension of its field of action caused by its own rising, the sun will discover its significance; it will see the attainment of the greatest possible height, and the widest possible dissemination of its blessings, as its goal. . . ~Modern Man in Search of a Soul p. 69, • Aging people should know that their lives are not mounting and unfolding but that an inexorable inner process forces the contraction of life. During an interview with H. R. Knickerbocker, first published in Hearst’s International Cosmopolitan (January 1939), in which Jung was asked to diagnose Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Joseph Stalin, later published in Is Tomorrow Hitler’s? – “On the Re-education of the Germans” (1946). pg. 476, • The dream is often occupied with apparently very silly details, thus producing an impression of absurdity, or else it is on the surface so unintelligible as to leave us thoroughly bewildered. 837. (1964) Essay re-titled “Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams” In CW 18: P.61, • Neither our modern medical training nor academic psychology and philosophy can equip the doctor with the necessary education, or with the means, to deal effectively and understandingly with the often very urgent demands of his psycho-therapeutic practice. When you say that the place of the soul is not, then it is not. Jung. If this results in a considerable increase of her power, she will acquit herself none too well. They are each other’s poison and healing. P. 845, • Archetypes were, and still are, living psychic forces that demand to be taken seriously, and they have a strange way of making sure of their effect. Mother is mother love, my experience and my secret. ~”General Aspects of Dream Psychology” (1916). It operates on the celebrated principle “Nihil est in intellectu quod non antea fuerit in sensu,” regardless of the fact that there are very many things in the mind which did not derive from the data of the senses. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. Jung, • “I am an orphan, alone: nevertheless I am found everywhere. ~Carl Jung; Red Book. Even primitives distinguish between “little” and “big” dreams. prostitution and . The selfishness and rebelliousness we meet in the neurotic’s psychology are not “man as he really is” but an infantile distortion. ~Memories, Dreams and Reflections [p. 339], • A man’s foremost interest should be his work. My feeling of inferiority grew ominous, and I was beginning to think seriously of how I might better myself. – “After the Catastrophe” (1945). In an outward form of religion where all the emphasis is on the outward figure (hence where we are dealing with a more or less complete projection) the archetype is identical with externalized ideas but remains unconscious as a psychic factor. . The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Soul: “So knowing that they happen is not enough to enrage you?” P. 645, He who is rooted in the soil endures. ], • An attitude that seeks to do justice to the unconscious as well as to one’s fellow human beings cannot possibly rest on knowledge alone, in so far as this consists merely of thinking and intuition. Jung, • “The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. Great energy springs from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.” (from “Alchemical Studies”, 1942), • – “Nature must not win the game, but she cannot lose.” (from “Alchemical Studies”, 1942) Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. East and West, Collected Works 11, par.140, • Greater than all physical dangers are the tremendous effects of delusional ideas […].The world powers that rule over humanity, for good or ill, are unconscious psychic factors, and it is they that bring unconsciousness into being […].We are steeped in a world that was created by our own psyche. ], • The neuroses of the young generally come from a collision between the forces of reality and an inadequate, infantile attitude, which from the causal point of view is characterized by an abnormal dependence on the real or imaginary parents, and from the teleological point of view by unrealizable fictions, plans, and aspirations. And so be it. Carl Jung. Yet we cannot remain in this state, since all the powers of our body are consumed like fat in the flames. “It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.” – Carl … Jung, • “I deliberately and consciously give preference to a dramatic, mythological way of thinking and speaking, because this is not only more expressive but also more exact than an abstract scientific terminology, which is wont to toy with the notion that its theoretic formulations may one fine day be resolved into algebraic equations.” — C.G. – “Diagnosing the Dictators.” In Hearst’s International Cosmopolitan, January 1939 pp.22, The mind is a self-regulating system that maintains its equilibrium just as the body does. But if you change, the countenance of the world alters. This knowledge, furthermore, should not be dead material that has been memorized; it must possess a living quality, and be infused with the experience of the person who uses it. View all posts by Mr. Purrington. I: “I cannot- I refuse- I cannot participate in this horrible guilt.” When, therefore, an object-imago appears in an unconscious product, it is not on that account the image of a real object; it is far more likely that we are dealing with a subjective functional complex. . Archetypes are likened to instinctual behavior patterns. In CW 18: (retitled) The Tavistock Lectures. What is more, these images — are they Christian or Buddhist or what you will — are lovely, mysterious, and richly intuitive. pg. [Ibid. Hence it largely forfeits its own life, because prevented from exerting the formative influence on consciousness natural to it; what is more, it remains in its original form — unchanged, for nothing changes in the unconscious. Carl Jung, “On the Psychology of the Unconsciousness”, 1917. P. 122, • The struggle between light and darkness has broken out everywhere. In CW 8: The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche. In CW 11: Psychology and Religion: West and East. . • Experience has taught me to keep away from therapeutic methods as much as from diagnoses. Then I take it out and hold it with bloody hands toward the figure. . “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.67, Psychology Press, Carl Jung (2016). In CW 11: Psychology and Religion: West and East. Enlightenment may have destroyed the spirits of nature, but not the psychic factors that correspond to them, such as . Jung (Memories, Dreams, Reflections), • “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.” — C.G. In order to explain the mystery of matter he projected yet another mystery – his own psychic background -into what was to be explained: Obscurum per obscurius, ignotum per ignotius! In childhood it awakens gradually, and all through life it wakes each morning out of the depths of sleep from an unconscious condition. ], • Repression is a process that begins in early childhood under the moral influence of the environment and continues through life. But he knows better: it is the law…The only meaningful life is a life that strives for the individual realization–absolute and unconditional–of its own particular law…To the extent that a man is untrue to the law of his being…he has failed to realize his own life’s meaning. In CW 11: Psychology and Religion: West and East. I do not mean that such dreams are necessarily prophetic, merely that they feel the way, they “reconnoiter.” These dreams contain inklings of possibilities and for that reason can never be made plausible to an outsider. But as soon as the patient begins to assimilate the contents that were previously unconscious, the danger from the side of the unconscious diminishes.” (from “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, 1933), • – “We are susceptible only to those suggestions with which we are already secretly in accord.” (from “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, 1933), • – “Whereas I formerly believed it to be my bounden duty to call other persons to order, I now admit that I need calling to order myself.” (from “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, 1933), • – “The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.” (from “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, 1934), • – “To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.” (from “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, 1934), • This confrontation is the first test of courage on the inner way, a test sufficient to frighten off most people.” (from “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, 1934), • – “The inner voice is at once our greatest danger and an indispensable help.” (from “The Development of Personality”, 1934), • – “It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.” (from “The Development of Personality”, 1934), • – “To the man in the street it has always seemed miraculous that anyone should turn aside from the beaten track with its known destinations, and strike out on the steep and narrow path leading into the unknown. Intimately known and yet strange like Nature, lovingly tender and yet cruel like fate, ‘oyous and untiring giver of life-mater dolorosa and mute implacable portal that closes upon the dead. . So do not be a fool, throw down your weapon. • – “The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. He lured him to his desire. • The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. • – “The dreams of redemption, whereby God descends into the human realm and man mounts up to the realm of divinity.” (from “A Psychological Approach to the Dogma of the Trinity”, 1942) The dream is a natural occurrence, and there is no earthly reason why we should assume that it is a crafty device to lead us astray. - Carl Jung. Should I therefore not want anything anymore? – Psychology and Alchemy (1944). ~”Psychology and Religion” (1938). Quotes & Sayings; Quotes by Topics; People Quotes; Time Quotes; No Result In CW 10: Civilization in Transition. For great artists, this impulse can be all-consuming. It is certainly a good thing to preach reason and common sense, but what if you have a lunatic asylum for an audience or a crowd in a collective frenzy? If one lives out the opposite sex in oneself one is living in one’s own background, and one’s real individuality suffers. We are not yet far enough advanced to distinguish between moral and immoral behaviour in the realm of free sexual activity. ~”The Philosophical Tree” (1945). Coming generations will have to take account of this momentous transformation if humanity is not to destroy itself through the might of its own technology and science. It has become a prejudice which hinders all progress, with nothing to justify it.” (“General Aspects of Dream Psychology”, 1916), • – “The moment of the outbreak of neurosis is not just a matter of chance; as a rule it is most critical. I: “What should I do?” ], • The “supraordinate personality” is the total man, i.e., man as he really is, not as he appears to himself. As a man you have no soul, since it is in the woman; as a woman you have no soul, since it is in the man. P.286, • We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women who pass by without exciting attention, and who betray to the world nothing of the conflicts that rage within them except possibly by a nervous breakdown. In CW 9, Part I: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. [The Function of the Unconscious,” CW 7, par. ~The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious p.42-43, • We must now turn to the question of how the existence of archetypes can be proved. The source of the water of life seeps away. ; Carl Jung; In CW 8: The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche; The Stages of Life; Page 787. Man does not make his ideas; we could say that man’s ideas make him. P.769, The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. In CW 8: The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche. We should be able to include this unknown quantity in a total picture of man, but we cannot. For the patient, therefore, the analyst has the character of an indispensable figure absolutely necessary for life. P.287, Emptiness is a great feminine secret. The one takes care of reflection and the other sees to the initiative and practical action. (Carl Jung, The Undiscovered Self), • If the Creator were conscious of Himself, He would not need conscious creatures; nor is it probable that the extremely indirect methods of creation, which squander millions of years upon the development of countless species and creatures, are the outcome of purposeful intention. [Ibid. Carl Gustav Jung (b. The ego, however, torn between thesis and antithesis, finds in the middle ground its own counterpart, its sole and unique means of expression, and it eagerly seizes on this in order to be delivered from its division. The question is idle, actually, and answers itself by reason of the subjectively overwhelming numinosity of the experience. • The formulation of the archetypes is described as an empirically derived concept, like that of the atom; it is a concept based not only on medical evidence but on observations of mythical, religious and literary phenomena, these archetypes are considered to be primordial images, spontaneous products of the psyche which do not reflect any physical process, but are reflected in them. In CW 7: Two Essays on Analytical Psychology. 509, • If we want to interpret a dream correctly, we need a thorough knowledge of the conscious situation at that moment, because the dream contains its unconscious complement, that is, the material which the conscious situation has constellated in the unconscious. If I carry myself I relieve mankind of myself and heal my Self from the God. 472]. (Carl Jung, The Undiscovered Self), • This task is so exacting and its fulfillment so advantageous, that he forgets himself in the process, losing sight of his instinctual nature and putting his own conception of himself in place of his real being. On the one hand I was powerfully attracted by science, with its truths based on facts; on the other hand I was fascinated by everything to do with comparative religion. Others, on the contrary, dispute the value of dream-analysis and regard dreams as a negligible by-product of the psyche. Jung, • “I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. The outstanding characteristic of his physiognomy is its dreamy look. ~Modern Man in Search of a Soul p.126, • No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity. In CW 7: Two Essays on Analytical Psychology. ~Carl Jung”; The Undiscovered Self. ~”The Philosophical Tree” (1945). . It is as though the latter were threatened with impotence. P.693, • If a man is endowed with an ethical sense and is convinced of the sanctity of ethical values, he is on the surest road to a conflict of duty. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. Also, the basic ideas and themes can be recognized much well in a dream-series. ], • I have been compelled, in my investigations into the structure of the unconscious, to make a conceptual distinction between soul and psyche. . 260.] Not from the word down to man, but from the word up to man: that is what the darkness comprehends. Who are you?” To that extent the self is supraordinate. 322, • Lack of conscious understanding does not mean that the dream has no effect at all. Carl Gustav Jung, Civilization in Transition, Collected Works 10, par.485, • The people would never have been Deutsch taken in and carried away so completely if this figure had not been a reflected image of the collective hysteria Deutsch. At this stage it is no longer the unconscious that takes the lead, but the ego. In CW 8: The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche. P.221, • I once made the acquaintance of a very venerable personage – in fact, one might easily call him a saint. ~”Psychological Aspects of the Kore” (1941) In CW 9, Part I: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. I went about with all these fantastic figures: centaurs, nymphs, satyrs, gods and goddesses, as though they were patients and I was analyzing them. We have long known, for instance, that a cardiac neurosis comes not from the heart, as the old medical mythology would have it, but from the mind of the sufferer. If we have made a wrong interpretation, or if it is somehow incomplete, we may be able to see it from the next dream. Surely this red one was the devil, but my devil. But not wave lengths. Natural history tells us of a haphazard and casual transformation of species over hundreds of millions of years of devouring and being devoured. ~”The Psychological Foundation for the Belief in Spirits (1920). Through uniting with the Self we reach the God. ], • To establish a really mature attitude, he has to see the subjective value of all these images which seem to create trouble for him. But from the point of view of the divine, this anthropomorphic action is only the outer shell of husk in which what is really happening is not a human action at all but a divine event. I exist on the foundation or something I do not know.” — C.G. She has power over you, since she gave birth to you. The anima is the feminine aspect of the archetypal male/female duality whose projections in the external world can be traced through myth, philosophy and religious doctrine. It need not be a question of hysterical multiple personality, or schizophrenic alterations of personality, but merely of so-called “complexes” that come entirely within the scope of the normal. The thinking and feeling types belong to the former class, the sensation and intuitive types to the latter. The so-called “misunderstood genius” is rather a doubtful phenomenon. The darkness does not comprehend the word, but rather man; indeed, it seizes him, since he himself is a piece of the darkness. 2. pg. If we want to know what these workings are, we need a method of inquiry which imposes the fewest possible conditions, or if possible no conditions at all, and then leave Nature to answer out of her fullness. Yet it is just this that the modern man insists upon. Hence there ‘ is nothing surprising about the possibility that the figurative language of dreams is a survival from an archaic mode of thought. 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