Carl Gustav Jung Quotes

• Thank God I’m Jung and not a Jungian.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy, and inasmuch as you attain to the numinous experience you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• All religions are therapies for the sorrows and disorders of the soul.

  Carl Gustav Jung

  Topics in Religion, Soul

• A collection of a hundred Great brains makes one big fathead.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• My evenings are taken up largely with astrology.
  I make horoscopic calculations in order to find
  a clue to the core of psychological truth.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away — an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• I maintained that psychiatry, in the broadest sense, is a dialogue between the sick psyche and the psyche of the doctor, which is presumed to be ‘normal.’ It is a coming to terms between the sick personality and that of the therapist, both in principle equally subjective.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• A scream is always just that – a noise and not music.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• The life of man is a dubious experiment. It is a tremendous phenomenon only in numerical terms. Individually, it is so fleeting, so insufficient, that it is literally a miracle that anything can exist and develop at all.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• In the end, man is an event which cannot judge itself, but, for better or worse, is left to the judgment of others.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• It had become clear to me, in a flash of illumination, that for me the only possible goal was psychiatry. Here alone the two currents of my interest could flow together and in a united stream dig their own bed. Here was the empirical field common to biological and spiritual facts, which I had everywhere sought and nowhere found. Here at last was the place where the collision of nature and spirit became a reality.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• I early arrived at the insight that when no answer comes from within to the problems and complexities of life, they ultimately mean very little.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• The term ‘religion’ designates the attitude peculiar to a consciousness which has been changed by experience of the numinosum.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• It is indeed time for the clergyman and the psychotherapist to join forces.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• Sensation tell us a thing is.
  Thinking tell us what it is this thing is.
  Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.

  Carl Gustav Jung

  Tags in Psychology

• I realized that one gets nowhere unless one talks to people about the things they know. The naive person does not appreciate what an insult it is to talk to one’s fellows about anything that is unknown to them. They pardon such ruthless behavior only in a writer, journalist or poet.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness. Please, don’t worry about my wanderings in these infinitudes. I shall return laden with rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• My aim was to show that delusions and hallucinations were not just specific symptoms of mental disease but also had a human meaning.

  Carl Gustav Jung

Carl Gustav Jung (134)

Birth:	26th July, 1875
Death:	6th June, 1961
Nationality:	Swiss
Profession:	Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst, Psychotherapist

About

Carl Gustav Jung was born in Kesswil, Thurgau, Switzerland. He was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. His work has been influential not only in psychiatry but also in philosophy, anthropology, archaeology, literature, and religious studies. He was a prolific writer, though many of his works were not published until after his death. Jung created some of the best known psychological concepts, including the archetype, the collective unconscious, the complex, and synchronicity.

Related Authors

• Milton R. Sapirstein
• Viktor Emil Frankl
• François Lelord
• David D. Burns
• Axel Munthe
• Harry Stack Sullivan
• Tahar Ben Jelloun
• R. D. Laing
• Anthony Storr
• Thomas Szasz

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 24th November

Births

• 1713 - Laurence Sterne
• 1934 - Martin Charnin
• 1957 - Denise Crosby
• 1948 - Spider Robinson
• 1934 - Alfred Schnittke

Deaths

• 2004 - Warren Spahn
• 1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald
• 1957 - Diego Rivera
• 1807 - Joseph Brant
• 1991 - Paul Charles Caravello