Occupation: Psychiatrist Birth: July 26, 1875 Death: June 6, 1961
Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face..
Our blight is ideologies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!.
A man likes to believe that he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control his moods and emotions, or to be conscious of the my….
In every adult there lurks a child— an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention,….
Be simple and always take the next step. You needn't see it in advance, but you can look back at it afterwards.There is no 'how' of life, one just do….
When you come to think about it, nothing has any meaning, for when there was nobody to think, there was nobody to interpret what happened..
The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it..
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 ….
Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning..
We don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems..
Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation. ….
Paul hardly ever allows the real Jesus of Nazareth to get a word in..
The squaring of the circle is a stage on the way to the unconscious, a point of transition leading to a goal lying as yet unformulated beyond it. It ….
Every man carries within himself the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite feminine image. This imag….
The distinction between mind and body is an artificial dichotomy, a discrimination which is unquestionably based far more on the peculiarity of intel….
It is proverbial, of course, that man never learns from history, and, as a rule, in respect to a problem of the present, it can teach us simply nothi….
The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection..
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable..
Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her ….
The brain is viewed as an appendage of the genital glands..
One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest arc….