Carl Jung: Experimental Researches – Quotations
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The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Vol. 2: Experimental Researches
A Concordance by Thornton Ladd
Carl Jung: *CW 2 “Experimental Researches”:
Distraction by surrounding objects is, as far as we know from our experience in psychopathology, a phenomenon that must be interpreted as the effect of emotion ~Carl Jung, CW 2, Para 298
In embarrassment or bewilderment, which are caused when the stimulus-word conjures up [in the word association test] emotionally charged ideas that the subject consciously or unconsciously tries to repress, the subject lets herself be completely distracted by externals and verbally reacts by simply naming an object from her surroundings ~Carl Jung, CW 2, Para 298
For psychoanalysis, the patient’s mental condition is important, but still more important is the mental condition of the doctor ~Carl Jung, CW 2, Para 703
He [the doctor] who approaches a case with anything but absolute conviction is soon lost in the snares and traps laid by the complex of hysterical illness at whatever point he hopes to take hold of it ~Carl Jung, CW 2, Para 703
One has to know from the very beginning that everything in the hysteric is trying to prevent an exploration of the complex ~Carl Jung, CW 2, Para 703
fter three [analytic] sessions a certain conclusion was reached, in so far as one could not avoid relating the obsessional idea that she had caused the death of her former pupil to the self-reproaches connected with the sexual stories [which she had revealed in earlier sessions] ~Carl Jung, CW 2, Para 713
The cement that holds the complex together is the feeling-tone common to all the individual ideas, in this case unhappiness ~Carl Jung, CW 2, Para 733
In our case the complex has the effect that the subject does not react by arbitrary or random connections of words but derives most of his reactions from the complex itself. The influence of the complex on thinking and behavior is called a constellation ~Carl Jung, CW2, Para 733
In accordance with the intensity of their emotions people’s thinking and behavior are constellated by their complexes, and so are their associations ~Carl Jung, CW2, Para 736
Where the complex temporarily replaces the ego, we see that a strong complex possesses all the characteristics of a separate personality. We are, therefore, justified in regarding a complex as somewhat like a small secondary mind, which deliberately (though unknown to consciousness) drives at certain intentions which are contrary to the conscious intentions of the individual ~Carl Jung, CW 2, Para 1352
Laughter is diagnostically important: it often indicates in psychoanalysis that a complex has been touched ~Carl Jung, CW 2, Para 816
It is obvious that no one but the patient demands anything that is too much. Freud says, “Many of my neurotic patients who are under psychoanalytic treatment are in the habit of confirming the fact by a laugh when I have succeeded in giving a faithful picture of their hidden unconscious to their conscious perception; and they laugh even when the content of what is unveiled would by no means justify this. This is subject, of course, to their having arrived close enough to the unconscious material to grasp it after the doctor has detected it and presented it to them” ~Carl Jung, CW 2, Para 816
The complex acts in a peculiar way upon the psyche; Janet has described it in an excellent manner in his book (Janet, Les Obsessions et la psychasthénie, 1903). The complex robs the ego of light and nourishment, just as a cancer robs the body of its vitality. ~Carl Jung, CW 2, Para 1067
Experience teaches us the close relation between complex and neurosis. We must assume that the complex is a thought material, which stands under special psychological conditions, because it can exert a pathogenetic influence ~Carl Jung, CW 2, Para 1352
This intention [of the subject] is disturbed by the interference of the complex, so that the association, contrary to expectation, is either turned from the sense of the complex or replaced by fragmentary allusions, or is in general so disturbed as to render the subject altogether unable to produce a reaction, although he may be unaware that the complex is independent of his intentions ~Carl Jung, CW 2, Para 1352
Nature has an apparatus that makes an extract of the complexes and brings them to consciousness in an unrecognizable and therefore harmless form: this is the dream ~Carl Jung, CW 2, Para 822
We know Freud’s principle of the displacement from below upwards. What happens to the mouth (in dreams, in hysteria, in schizophrenia) happens to the genitals. If one eats, one puts something into the mouth ~Carl Jung, CW 2, Para 839
A patient in the early stage of dementia [schizophrenia] once expressed her wish-delirium by saying that the man she desired as her bridegroom fed her with a spoon, which made her pregnant and she had a child ~Carl Jung, CW 2, Para 839
The memory consists of a large number of single images; we therefore refer to it as a complex-image ~Carl Jung, CW 2, Para 891
The complex of these images is held together by a particular emotional tone, that is, by the effect of terror, the vibrations of which can continue gently for weeks or months and keep the image of terror fresh and vivid for that length of time ~Carl Jung, CW 2, Para 891
During the day work and other interests predominate, but from time to time these complexes make themselves felt through a faint and hardly recognizable unease or through slight feelings of anxiety, which seem to be unaccountable; at night they intrude into our dreams in a form the symbolism of which may be more or less pronounced ~Carl Jung, CW 2, Para 891
One of the chief characteristics of hysterical patients is the tendency to let themselves be carried away by everything, to fix their passion onto everything, and always promise too much and hence keep only a few of their promises. Patients with this symptom are, in my experience, always rather disagreeable ~Carl Jung, CW 2, Para 950
Another common peculiarity of hysterical patients that of taking everything personally, of never being able to be objective and of allowing themselves to be carried away by momentary impressions ~Carl Jung, CW 2, Para 953
The sensitivity (i.e., the excitability) of the emotions is greater in hysterical patients than in normal people. The hysterical patient suffers from an affect that he has been unable to conquer. The recognition of this is of the greatest importance in therapy ~Carl Jung, CW 2, Para 909
By his desire to supplement [in the word association test], the subject betrays a tendency to give the experimenter more than he wants; he actually labours in his attempts to find further ideas so as eventually to find something entirely satisfactory ~Carl Jung, CW 2, Para 950
Patients with this symptom are, in my experience, always rather disagreeable; at first they are enthusiastically enamored of the physician, for a time going so far as blindly to accept everything he says; but they soon fall into an equally blind resistance to him, thus rendering any psychological influence absolutely impossible ~Carl Jung, CW 2, Para 950
The complex acts in a peculiar way upon the psyche; Janet has described it in an excellent manner in his book (Janet, Les Obsessions et la psychasthénie, 1903). The complex robs the ego of light and nourishment, just as a cancer robs the body of its vitality ~Carl Jung, CW 2, Para 1067
Rise of morbid hysterical symptoms These results can also manifest themselves in associations, so that in hysterics we find clear manifestations of emotional constellations among the patient’s associations ~Carl Jung, CW 2, Para 1067
The association experiment [word association test] provides the means of studying experimentally the behavior of the complex ~Carl Jung, CW 2, Para 1352
Experience teaches us the close relation between complex and neurosis. We must assume that the complex is a thought material, which stands under special psychological conditions, because it can exert a pathogenetic influence ~Carl Jung, CW 2, Para 1352
This intention [of the subject] is disturbed by the interference of the complex, so that the association, contrary to expectation, is either turned from the sense of the complex or replaced by fragmentary allusions, or is in general so disturbed as to render the subject altogether unable to produce a reaction, although he may be unaware that the complex is independent of his intentions ~Carl Jung, CW 2, Para 1352
