Even the most carefully defined philosophical or mathematical concept, which we are sure does not contain more than we have put into it, is nevertheless more than we assume. It is a psychic event and...
About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.
What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate.
آن چه که ما خودآگاهی ناشی از تمدن می نامیم، به طور جدی از غرایز اصلیمان فاصله گرفته است. انسان عصر حاضر به علت شهر نشینی تا حدی به قدرت اراده و اختیار دست یافته و بدون توسل به دعا و سرود و دهل [در رقص...
It is the face of his own evil shadow that grins at Western man from the other side of the Iron curtain.
The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.
The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image, and in elaborating and shaping this image into the finished work. By giv...
Christians often ask why God does not speak to them, as he is believed to have done in former days. When I hear such questions, it always makes me think of the rabbi who asked how it could be that God...
This experience punctured the desired hole in her rationalism and broke the ice of her intellectual resistance.
Often in the case of these sudden transformations one can prove that an archetype has been at work for a long time in the unconscious, skilfully arranging circumstances that will unavoidably lead to a...
If a blind man can gradually be helped to see it is not to be expected that he will at once discern new truths with an eagle eye. One must be glad if he sees anything at all, and if he begins to under...
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
To cherish secrets and to restrain emotions are psychic misdemeanours for which nature finally visits us with sickness—that is, when we do these things in private. But when they are done in communion...
The statistical method shows the facts in the light of the ideal average but does not give us a picture of their empirical reality. While reflecting an indisputable aspect of reality, it can falsify t...
Seek the coldness of the moon and ye shall find the heat of the sun.
Leonardo da Vinci wrote in his Notebooks: It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places in which … you may fin...
His gods and demons have not disappeared at all; they have merely got new names.
In fact, passion that goes beyond the natural measure of love ultimately aims at the mystery of becoming whole, and this is why one feels, when he has fallen passionately in love, that becoming one wi...
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
Man is much more the victim of his psychic constitution than its inventor.