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Carl Jung

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Carl Jung

Carl Gustav Jung (Kesswil, 26 July 1875 - Küsnacht, 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, psychologist, psychotherapist and essayist who founded analytical psychology school, also known as the complex and depth psychology. His work has been influential in psychiatry and in the study of religion, literature, and related fields.

Monday Mar 13, 2023

Carl Jung: The pendulum of the mind

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Wednesday Jun 9, 2021

Carl Jung: Look into your own heart

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Wednesday Apr 28, 2021

Carl Jung: Are you aware how you look at things?

It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.

Thursday Mar 11, 2021

Carl Jung: Wisdom

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

Monday Feb 1, 2021

Carl Jung: Creative Fantasy

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

Wednesday Jan 20, 2021

Carl Jung: Becoming conscious

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

Wednesday Sep 16, 2020

Carl Jung: Every form of addiction is bad

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.

Tuesday Jul 28, 2020

Carl Jung: Complexes

Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

Wednesday Jul 22, 2020

Carl Jung: Accept the changes

We cannot change anything until we accept it.

Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Friday May 22, 2020

Carl Jung: Chaos and order

In all chaos there is a cosmos,
in all disorder a secret order.

Wednesday Mar 4, 2020

Carl Jung: Understand yourself

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Thursday Feb 20, 2020

Carl Jung: Look at yourself too

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.

Thursday Dec 19, 2019

Carl Jung: Thinking

Thinking is difficult.

That's why most people judge.

Friday Oct 27, 2017

Carl Jung: Life at forty

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

Wednesday Sep 13, 2017

Carl Jung: Knowing your own darkness

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people.

Friday Sep 1, 2017

Carl Jung: Where wisdom reigns

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

Friday Aug 18, 2017

Carl Jung: Self-awareness

Self awareness doesn't stop you from making mistakes, it allows you to learn from them.

Friday Aug 4, 2017

Carl Jung: Life's most intractable problems

In my experience, I have found that the solutions to all of life's most intractable problems are not found through any form of intellect or cleverness. They are solved simply by moving on.

Friday Jul 28, 2017

Carl Jung: Thinking is difficult

Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.

Friday Jul 21, 2017

Carl Jung: You are what you do

You are what you do,
not what you say you'll do.

Friday Jul 14, 2017

Carl Jung: Loneliness

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

Friday Jul 7, 2017

Carl Jung: Fate

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate.

Wednesday Dec 21, 2016

Carl Jung: What am I?

I am not what has happened to me.
I am what I choose to become.