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

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

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

- 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

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

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

- 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

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