Occupation: Psychiatrist Birth: July 26, 1875 Death: June 6, 1961
Modern man is sick because he is not whole..
All neurotics seek the religious.
One finds one's destiny on the path one takes to avoid it..
I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike u….
The curve of life is like the parabola of a projectile which, disturbed from its initial state of rest, rises and then returns to a state of repose..….
The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community..
Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered..
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order... we are caught and entangled in aimless experience... Only when all props and crutch….
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls..
The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and ….
A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil….
For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter..
The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs.….
Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in hims….
Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The "newness" in th….
The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious moti….
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics..
Archetypes resemble the beds of rivers: dried up because the water has deserted them, though it may return at any time. An archetype is something lik….
No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is certain that someone will. And let those who go do….
Just imagine what would happen if practicing physicians, the ones who have come into contact directly with suffering humanity, had some acquaintance ….
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses..