A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis are apt to behave in a manner un…

- Marie-Louise Von Franz

If you notice an unconscious fantasy coming up within you, you would be wise not to interpret it at once. Do not say that you know what it is and for…

- Marie-Louise Von Franz

Jung even asserted that he would have no objection to regarding the psyche as a quality of matter and matter as a concrete aspect of the psyche, prov…

- Marie-Louise Von Franz

The child is an inner possibility, the possibility of renewal.

- Marie-Louise Von Franz

Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of . . . mature people is of crucial importance.

- Marie-Louise Von Franz

Creativity sometimes needs the protection of darkness, of being ignored. That is very obvious in the natural tendency many artists and writers have n…

- Marie-Louise Von Franz

If a man devotes himself to the instructions of his own unconscious, it can bestow this gift [of renewal], so that suddenly life, which has been stal…

- Marie-Louise Von Franz

Number, as it were, lies behind the psychic realm as a dynamic ordering principle, the primal element of which Jung called spirit. As an archetype, n…

- Marie-Louise Von Franz

One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power ... If someone has a creative gift and out of laziness,…

- Marie-Louise Von Franz