Why do I prefer insurance to the invisible guarantees of existence?
I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.
The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How...
We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security.
The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it...
Outside and inside, life and soul, appear as parallels in case history and soul history. A case history is a biography of historical events in which one took part: family, school, work, illness, war,...
You find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what you see is what you get. It therefore becomes critically i...
L.P. J.H. No, not at all! It fights the unconsciousness, the blindness, that all myth creates about itself. You never can see the actual myth you are in or only through a glass darkly.
If there were a god of New York, it would be the Greek's Hermes, the Roman's Mercury. He embodies New York qualities: the quick exchange, the fastness of language and style, craftiness, the mixing of...
Psychology ideally means giving soul to language and finding language for soul.
You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy.
Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit the loss of the empire of the United States and American exceptionalism. In fact,...
We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.
This is the emancipation of the nigredo from literalism. Like cures like; we cure the nigredo by becoming, as the texts say, blacker than black – archetypally black, and thereby no longer colored by a...
The soul of our civilization depends upon the civilization of our soul. The imagination of our culture calls for a culture of the imagination.
The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?
I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.
Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.
Într-o societate și o epocă în care ciudații sunt aruncați în adăposturi, aduși la serenitate pe bază de serotonină și recuperați de către grup din individualismul lor prea intens și ambițios, când ce...
To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.