Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror. Civilization in Transition CW 10 Recognition of the shadow, on the other hand, leads to the modesty we need in order to acknowledge imperfection. And it is just this conscious recognition and consideration that are needed whenever a human relationship is to be established. A human…
The first patient was a theologian, Civilization in Transition During the work of interpretation one must abstain from all presuppositions that smack of superstition, such as, first and foremost, the notion that the protagonists in dreams are nothing other than these same persons in real life. One should never forget that one dreams in the…
Carl Jung: The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. Black Books In reality fantasies mean much more than that, for they represent at the same time the other mechanism—of repressed extraversion in the introvert, and of repressed introversion in the extravert. But the repressed function is unconscious, and hence undeveloped, embryonic,…
The psyche is the theatre of all our struggles for development. Jolande Jacobi – The Way of Individuation So when Jung speaks of an individuation process that characterizes a possibility of development immanent in everyone and that culminates in rounding out the individual into a psychic whole, his conception, though following the same line as…
But the neurotic cases are not by a long way the most dangerous. Two Essays on Analytical Psychology CW 7 We are greatly mistaken if we think that the unconscious is something harmless that could be made into an object of entertainment, a parlour game. Certainly the unconscious is not always and in all circumstances…