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
119 quotes“It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.”
“My need for understanding has been so great that I have always felt myself to be a stranger.”
“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.”
“Doubt is the door of knowledge.”
“There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.”
“What we look at in the morning is the news of the inner world.”
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
“Every man should live close to his own depths.”
“Consciousness is a precondition of being.”
“In intercourse the woman is the receiver. In creation, both are.”
“The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.”
“There is no growth without pain. There is no awakening without darkness.”
“What we call the unconscious is in fact the connection to all that is.”
“To grow up is the great work.”
“The great events of world history are, at bottom, profoundly unimportant.”
“In the final analysis, the only events in my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world erupted into this transitory one.”
“The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not?”
“Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.”
“The first half of life: build the ego. The second half: dissolve it. Both are sacred.”
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