Popular Quotations with no proof Dr. Jung uttered them.
Dr. Jung never said: ““Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate” which is why it is never found with a corresponding citation.
Dr. Jung did not say: “The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” ~The actual source is Joseph Campbell “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living.”
Dr. Jung neve said: “You meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it.” This was actually said by Jean de La Fontaine, Book VIII, Fable 16.
Dr. Jung never said: “There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
What Dr. Jung said in two separate and unrelated statements was:
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. ~Carl Jung, CW 12, Page 99.
Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain. ~Carl Jung, CW 17, Para 331
Dr. Jung never said: “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
What Dr. Jung said was:
It is not I who create myself, rather I happen to myself. ~Carl Jung, CW 11, Para 391
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Dr. Jung never said: “Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge. “
Dr. Jung did say: Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment! ~Carl Jung, CW 10, Page 344, Para 652.
Note: To date there is no documented evidence that Dr. Jung ever said: “The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.”
Note: There is no documented evidence that Dr. Jung ever said: “Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”
The debate on whether Dr. Jung uttered this quotation or not:
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/07/08/sane-cure/
Note: There is no documented evidence that Dr. Jung ever said: “What you resist persists.”
Note: There is no documented evidence that Dr. Jung ever said: “Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.”
Note: There is no documented evidence that Dr. Jung ever said: Synchronicity Is An Ever Present Reality For Those Who Have Eyes To See
]Should anyone have an actual citation for any of the above please let me know.]
Carl Jung: There is no such thing as an absolute proof
To E. A. Bennet
My dear Bennet, 3 June 1960
Thank you very much for your kind reply and your interesting article about “Individualism in Psychotherapy”-a very useful paper in the actual circumstances.
There seems to be some misunderstanding of terms: by “applicability of a theory” I don’t mean its practical application in therapy, f.i., but its application as a principle of understanding and heuristic means to an end as a characteristic of every scientific theory.
There is no such thing as an “absolute proof”; not even the Mathematical proof is absolute as it only concerns the quantum and not the quale, which is just as important if not more so.
I wondered therefore about your statement that scientific proof of the conception of the archetypes is lacking, and I thought you had something special up your sleeve when you made it.
As there is no such thing as “absolute proof” I wondered where you draw a line between the applicability of a theory and what you call “scientific proof.”
As far as I can see the only proof of a theoretical viewpoint is its applicability in a sense mentioned above, namely that it gives an adequate or satisfactory explanation and has a heuristic value.
If this is not scientific evidence then I must expect of you that you show me what scientific evidence would be in this case.
In other words: what proof is it in your mind that is lacking?
It cannot be an “absolute proof” because there is no such thing.
It must be what you call “scientific proof,” a special kind of proving of which you know since you are able to state that it is lacking.
I cannot be satisfied with the statement that something is lacking, because it is too vague.
I know that there is always something lacking.
Therefore I should be most indebted if you could tell me what is lacking, as you must have some definite idea of how such a thing should be proved otherwise than by the observation of relevant facts.
Please don’t be impatient with me.
It is not hair-splitting but it has much to do with what I call “psychic reality,” a concept very often not understood.
I appreciate your answer highly since I am always eager to improve on whatever I have thought hitherto.
Cordially yours,
C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Page 562
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