Occupation: Psychologist Birth: April 12, 1926 Death: October 27, 2011
I'm not critical of the people who do psychotherapy. The therapists in the trenches have to face an awful lot of the social, political, and economic ….
Yes, we worship the idea of the "self-made man" - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money! We worship that idea..
From my perspective as a depth psychologist, I see that those who have a connection with story are in better shape and have better prognosis than tho….
Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being..
We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority..
Rather let us imagine the anima mundi as that particular soul-spark, that seminal image, which offers itself through each thing in its visible form. ….
The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?.
We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive..
I think there is such a thing as a bad seed that comes to flower in certain people. The danger with that theory is that we begin to look for those "t….
We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently..
I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness..
Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their po….
Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods..
Each morning, we return from the dream soul trying to adjust to the day world, that moment when the two souls exchange places in the driver’s seat..
As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to ….
I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche..
I tend to think that you fulfill your own destiny, whether you realize it or not..
Not just any talk is conversation; not any talk raises consciousness. Good conversation has an edge: it opens your eyes to something, quickens your e….
I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result..
We dull our lives by the way we conceive them..
Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul..