Magical is just another word for psychic. Quotes and aphorisms by K.G

Carl Gustav Jung(German) Carl Gustav Jung[ˈkarl ˈgʊstaf ˈjʊŋ]) (July 26, 1875, Keeswil, Thurgau, Switzerland - June 6, 1961, Küsnacht, canton of Zurich, Switzerland) - Swiss psychiatrist, founder of one of the areas of depth psychology - analytical psychology.

Jung considered the task of analytical psychology to be the interpretation of archetypal images that arise in patients. Jung developed the doctrine of the collective unconscious, in the images (archetypes) of which he saw the source of universal human symbolism, including myths and dreams (“Metamorphoses and Symbols of Libido”). The goal of psychotherapy, according to Jung, is the individuation of the individual.

Jung's concept of psychological types also became famous.

Quotes and aphorisms by K.G. cabin boy

• · Every process is an energy phenomenon, and energy can only be generated by the intense unity of opposites.
• · All the highest achievements of virtue, like the greatest atrocities, are individual.
• ·If only people were more aware of the strict universal laws that even the wildest and most arbitrary fantasies are subject to.
• ·There are truths that are true only the day after tomorrow, and those that were true yesterday, and some that are not true at any time.
• · “Magical” is just another word for psychic.
• · Inability to adapt to inner world- an omission as serious in consequences as ignorance and awkwardness in the outside world. And only an insignificant part of humanity, living mainly on that densely populated peninsula of Asia that is washed by the waters of the Atlantic, and calling themselves “educated people”, due to insufficient contact with nature, has attacked the idea that religion is a kind of peculiar spiritual disorder, a destiny which is incomprehensible.
• ·As a person, betraying his own law, misses the opportunity to become an individual, he loses the meaning of his life. Fortunately, the forgiving and long-suffering nature has never put the fatal question about the meaning of life in the mouths of most people. And if no one asks, there is no need to answer.
• ·Facts are always discovered first, not theories. The theory emerges, among other things, during the discussion.
• ·The sad truth is that human life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death, happiness and suffering, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail over the other, that good will triumph over evil, or joy over pain. Life is a battlefield. It has always existed and will always exist; if it were not so, life would come to an end.
• ·… the rather early emergence of the human ability to reflect arose from the painful consequences of severe emotional shocks. There is no doubt that the shock of emotional experience is often necessary to make people wake up and take notice of what they are doing.
• ·Many crises in our lives have a long unconscious history. We go through it step by step, unaware of the danger that accumulates. But what we consciously try not to notice is often captured by our unconscious, which transmits information in the form of dreams.
• ·Symbols reveal the sacred to a person and at the same time protect him from direct contact with the colossal psychic energy of archetypes.
• ·An object that gives rise to anxiety is the first step towards art.
• ·We forget that consciousness is just the surface, just the vanguard of our mental existence. The head is only one end, and behind it, behind the avant-garde-consciousness - a long tail hesitations, weaknesses, complexes, prejudices and inherited qualities. We almost always make decisions without taking into account past factors. And sometimes we go off the rails.
• ·What is EGO? It is a complex of data constructed primarily by general awareness of one's body, one's existence, and then by memory data; the person has certain idea about his past existence, certain sets (series) of memory. Therefore, we can call the EGO a complex of mental factors. This complex has enormous attractive energy, like a magnet; it attracts contents from the unconscious, from this dark unknown region; it also attracts impressions from the outside, and when they come into contact with the EGO, they become conscious. If they don’t enter, then awareness does not occur.
• ·What is the difference between a genius and a madman? The madman sees, but does not know how to convey it. And a genius can translate this into the language of consciousness.
• ·Being “normal” is the ideal for the loser, for all those who have not yet managed to rise to the level general requirements. But for those whose abilities are much above average, for whom it was not difficult to achieve success by doing their share of worldly work, for such people the framework of the norm means a Procrustean bed, unbearable boredom, hellish hopelessness and hopelessness. As a result, many become neurotic because they are simply normal, while others suffer from neurosis because they cannot become normal.
• ·Developed consciousness determines the worldview. Any awareness of causes and goals is a budding worldview. Any accumulation of experience and knowledge means another step in the development of a worldview. And by creating an image of the world, a thinking person simultaneously changes himself.
• · But why then a worldview - they will ask me - if it’s already good without it? However, with the same reason one could ask me: why consciousness, if it is good without it? For what, after all, is a worldview? This is nothing more than an expanded and deepened consciousness! The reason why consciousness exists and why it tends to expand and deepen is very simple: without consciousness, things are worse.
• ·Perhaps, we will not overload our comparison if we also include in its framework the attitude of man to the world - the human “I” as the commander of a small army fighting with the outside world around it, often fighting on two fronts: in front is the struggle for existence, behind a struggle against one's own rebellious instinctual nature.
• ·… the problem leads us to loneliness, where we are deprived of father and mother and abandoned even by nature, where we are forced to turn to consciousness, and to nothing else but it. We cannot do otherwise and must replace what was done naturally with a conscious decision. Thus, any problem means the possibility of spreading consciousness, but at the same time also the need to say goodbye to all unconscious childishness and naturalness.
• ·The thesis “Quod licet Jovi, non licet bovi”* still evokes anger in any simple soul. Equality before the law is still considered a valuable achievement. And everything bad and inferior that one does not want to see in oneself is most definitely possessed by another; therefore, it must be criticized, it must be fought against, although in reality what is happening is only a transfer of one’s own spiritual inferiority to another.
• · It must not be ignored that false neurotic paths become ingrained habits and that, despite all understanding, they do not disappear until they are replaced by other habits, which can only be acquired through training. This work can be carried out exclusively through one’s own education. The patient must be “transferred” to other paths in the full sense of the word, which can only be done if he has the corresponding desire of his own.
• ·Everyone is separated from each other by secrets, and deceptive bridges of opinions and illusions lead across the gaps between people instead of a strong bridge of recognition.
• ·… one cannot explain a person one-sidedly - exclusively by his shadow sides. In the end, it is not the shadow that is important, but the body that casts this shadow.
• ·The heaviest burden that falls on a child’s shoulders is the unlived life of his parents.
• ·A symbol always contains more than its obvious meaning that immediately comes to mind.
• ·Each concept present in our conscious thinking has its own associative correspondence in the psyche.
• ·… problems are resolved when a person begins to understand that interpersonal conflicts often arise due to in various ways perception of the world, and not as a result of egocentrism or malicious intent.
• ·If heroism becomes chronic, then it ends in a spasm, and the spasm leads to catastrophe or neurosis or both.
• · Affects, as a rule, erupt in places of least adaptation, at the same time revealing the reason for its decline, namely a certain inferiority and a certain decrease in the level of personality.
• ·… philosophical position, is mainly subjective, and whether it has objective reality depends on how few or how many people come to the same conclusion in their reasoning.
• · Loneliness is not caused by the absence of people around, but by the inability to talk with people about what seems important to you, or the unacceptability of your views to others.
• ·Children learn from the example of an adult, and not from his words.
• · Depression is like a lady in black. If she comes, do not drive her away, but invite her to the table as a guest, and listen to what she intends to say.
• · Show me a mentally healthy person, and I will cure him.
• · Neurosis is always a replacement for natural suffering.
• ·Meeting yourself is one of the most unpleasant.
• · Life itself means nothing until a person appears trying to interpret its phenomena.
• · - Do you believe in God?
• - I don't believe it, I know.
• · Death, if you approach it psychologically correctly, is not the end, but the goal, and therefore a person, having passed the peak of life, begins to live for the sake of death.
• · Man is an animal that has gone crazy. There are two ways out of this madness: he must become an animal again; or become more than human...
• ·Any kind of addiction is bad, be it addiction to alcohol, drugs or idealism.
• ·Follow that will and that path which experience confirms as your own, that is, as the true expression of your own individuality.
• ·Love is not madness. Is the word “mind” even appropriate here? This is both light and darkness, the end of which will never be. And no one can escape this mysterious force.
• ·Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own soul.
• ·Dream is a hidden little door leading to the most secret and intimate corners of the soul and opening into the cosmic night.
• ·A healthy person does not bully others. The one who has suffered torment becomes the tormentor.
• ·Lack of meaning in life plays a critical role in the etiology of neurosis. Ultimately, neurosis should be understood as the suffering of a soul that cannot find its meaning... About a third of my cases are suffering not from some clinically detectable neurosis, but from the meaninglessness and purposelessness of one’s own life.
• ·If we are not aware of what is happening inside us, then from the outside it seems to us that this is fate.
• ·Everything that irritates others can lead to understanding oneself.
• A meeting of two people is a meeting of two chemical elements. The reaction may not happen, but if it does, both change.
• · (The meeting of two personalities is similar to the contact of two chemical substances: if there is even the slightest reaction, both elements change.)

Do you know what I like most about Carl Jung? The fact that he was not only a psychologist and psychoanalyst, but also a truly deep philosopher and thinker. And in order to write about what it is to be human, he first tried to know all aspects of himself.

Jung was deeply convinced that we are all spiritual beings, and in order to truly look into our souls and understand who we are, we need to establish a truly deep connection with ourselves.

For some, this idea turns into a passion for religion - they try to find solace and salvation by turning to something greater than themselves. Although this does not always help a person understand who he is (or, for example, who he is not at all).

As noted in one of the best biographical books on Jung, “Carl Jung was one of the founders of modern depth psychology, who sought to establish fruitful contact with the subconscious energy that flows through each of us. His works contain many terms and ideas used by psychologists around the world even now (and which have become firmly established in the vocabulary of many people far from psychology): complex, archetype, personality, shadow, anima and animus, personality typology, dream interpretation, individuation and many others. He valued and understood human creativity on a very deep level and considered spirituality to be the core of humanity itself.”

By selecting quotes from this article and rereading his works along the way, we began to appreciate Jung himself and all of him even more. scientific works, because time after time you come across themes and ideas that help to open the mind and look beyond its limits - themes with which his books and articles are literally strewn, like a beach with pebbles. He was most definitely a deep thinker, and knew himself and his soul in a way that many of us cannot imagine.

In addition, Jung was a great connoisseur of astrology. No, we are not talking about those average horoscopes, but about real astrology, with which most people are not even casually familiar...

But let's move on to the quotes themselves! Below you will find 17 quotes from various works of Carl Jung that will provide endless food for thought about yourself.

1. “It is impossible to achieve enlightenment only by striving for light and imagining it, for this you need to make darkness conscious.”

2. “Don’t try to hold back the one who is leaving, because then you will not be able to meet the one coming.”

3. “Until you make the subconscious conscious, it will rule your life, and you will call it destiny.”

4. “Everything that irritates us in other people can lead us to understand ourselves.”

5. “The meeting of two people is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is some reaction between them, both of them are transformed.”

6. “I am not what happened to me, I am what I decide to become.”

7. “Knowing your own darkness - The best way learn to deal with the darkness of other people.”

9. “The mistakes we make are laid in the foundation of truth, and even if after them a person does not know what something really is, he knows exactly what it is not.”

10. “Your vision will become crystal clear only when you can look into your own heart. He who looks outwards is only asleep, he who looks inwards is awakened.”

11. “People are ready to do anything, even the most absurd acts, just to avoid trying to look into their own soul.”

12. “Loneliness is not that there is no one next to you. It consists of an inability to clearly express what matters most to you, or that you are inclined to hold certain beliefs that others find unacceptable.”

13. “Depression is like a woman in black. If she shows up on your doorstep, don't turn her away. Invite her into the house, pull up a chair, make her feel at home, and listen to what she has to say.”

14. “A person who has never passed through the hellish crucible of his passions will never be able to overcome them.”

15. “What you resist only gets stronger.”

16. “Sleep is a small secret door in the deepest and most intimate corner of our soul, which opens into that primordial cosmic night, which the soul was long before the appearance of the conscious ego.”

Carl Jung - Swiss psychiatrist, founder of analytical psychology. Jung considered the task of analytical psychology to be the interpretation of archetypal images that arise in patients.

Quotes and sayings by Carl Jung that will allow you to know yourself better

Just because you are a gifted person does not mean you have received anything. This means you have something to give.

What is the difference between a genius and a madman? The madman sees, but does not know how to convey it. And a genius can translate this into the language of consciousness.

A subject that gives rise to anxiety is the first step towards art.

Follow that will and that path which experience confirms as your own, that is, as the true expression of your own individuality.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I decided to become.

Meeting yourself is one of the most unpleasant.

Any kind of addiction is bad, be it addiction to alcohol, drugs or idealism.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own soul.

If we are not aware of what is happening inside us, then from the outside it seems to us that this is fate.

Everything that irritates others can lead to understanding oneself.

He who has not gone through the purgatory of his own passions has not overcome them to the end.

We may think that we are in complete control of ourselves. However, a friend can easily tell us things about us that we have no idea about.

Only our deeds show who we are.

Fanaticism is a sign of suppressed doubt... If a person is truly convinced that he is right, he is absolutely calm and can discuss the opposite point of view without a shadow of indignation...

A healthy person does not bully others. The one who has suffered torment becomes the tormentor.

How more life a person is permeated with collective norms, the more immoral the individual is...

Who knows the way to the eternally fertile lands of the soul? You look for a path only in appearance, you study books and listen to all sorts of opinions. What is so good about it? There is only one way, and that is your way.

Even happy life there are dark moments, and the word “happiness” would be meaningless if it were not balanced by sadness. It is best to accept what is happening carefully and calmly.

The fact is that a person necessarily needs ideas and beliefs that give meaning to his life and allow him to find his place in the universe. He will overcome the most incredible challenges, being convinced of why he is doing it. But when all the troubles are over, he can suffer a crushing defeat when he learns that he is participating in an idiotic and senseless undertaking.

There is no more hypocritical whore than the intellect when it replaces the heart.

What you resist remains.

Don't hold back someone who leaves you. Otherwise, the one who comes to you will not come.

Your vision will only become clear if you can look into your heart. He who looks outside sees only dreams, he who looks within awakens.

When you are not aware of what is happening inside you, on the outside it seems like fate.

Quotes and sayings by Carl Jung aboutraising children

The heaviest burden that falls on a child’s shoulders is the unlived life of his parents.

Children learn from an adult's example, not from his words.

Children are raised by what an adult is, not by what he says. Widespread belief in words is a real disease of the mind.

Children, of course, are not as stupid as we think. They are too good at noticing what is real and what is fake.

Quotes from Carl Jung about the origins of mental disorders

Being “normal” is the ideal for the loser, for all those who have not yet managed to rise to the level of general requirements. But for those whose abilities are much above average, for whom it was not difficult to achieve success by doing their share of worldly work, for such people the framework of the norm means a Procrustean bed, unbearable boredom, hellish hopelessness and hopelessness. As a result, many become neurotic because they are simply normal, while others suffer from neurosis because they cannot become normal.

... problems are resolved when a person begins to understand that interpersonal conflicts often arise due to different ways of perceiving the world, and not as a result of egocentrism or malicious intent.

Depression is like a lady in black. If she comes, do not drive her away, but invite her to the table as a guest, and listen to what she intends to say.

Neurosis is always a replacement for natural suffering.

Lack of meaning in life plays a critical role in the etiology of neurosis. Ultimately, neurosis should be understood as the suffering of a soul that does not find its meaning...

A person who has not burned out in the hell of his own passions cannot defeat them. And they are hiding nearby, in a neighboring house, which he does not even imagine. And the flames could spread at any moment and burn down the house that he considers his own. What we are moving away from, avoiding, supposedly forgetting, is dangerously close to us. And eventually it will return, but with a vengeance.

At the heart of all mental illnesses is an unwillingness to experience deserved suffering.

Quotes, aphorisms and reflections of Carl Jung about life

As a person, betraying his own law, misses the opportunity to become an individual, he loses the meaning of his life. Fortunately, the forgiving and long-suffering nature has never put the fatal question about the meaning of life in the mouths of most people. And if no one asks, there is no need to answer.

Life is vanity only for those who chase vanity.

Life means nothing, not yet thinking man who could interpret her phenomena.

The main misconception of society is that there are answers, “solutions” or views that just need someone to express them, bringing the necessary clarity.

But as numerous examples of history show, real truth means nothing until it has become a personal inner experience.

The psychological rule says that if the internal situation is not realized, it turns into external events.

Everyone knows that people today have complexes... but what is not so well known is that we can have complexes.

People will do anything they can, no matter how absurd, to avoid coming face to face with their soul.

We reach into the past, to our parents, and forward, to our children, into a future that we will never see, but which we want to take care of.

The sad truth is that human life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death, happiness and suffering, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail over the other, that good will triumph over evil, or joy over pain. Life is a battlefield. It has always existed and will always exist; if it were not so, life would come to an end.

Many crises in our lives have a long unconscious history. We go through it step by step, unaware of the danger that accumulates. But what we consciously try not to notice is often captured by our unconscious, which transmits information in the form of dreams.

Sleep is a hidden little door leading to the most secret and intimate corners of the soul and opening into the cosmic night.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is even the slightest reaction, both elements change.

Loneliness is not caused by the absence of people around, but by the inability to talk with people about what seems important to you, or the unacceptability of your views to others.

He who looks into the mirror of water sees first of all his own reflection. He who goes to himself risks meeting himself.
The mirror does not flatter, it faithfully reflects the face that we never show to the world, hiding it behind the Persona, behind the actor's mask. The mirror shows our true face. This is a test of courage on the path into the depths, a test that is enough for most to recoil, since meeting oneself is one of the most unpleasant.

What is the difference between a genius and a madman? What does it mean to “be normal”? How to cure neurosis? Freud's famous student Carl Gustav Jung gives unusual answers, showing us magic human soul. He writes that for him, “magical” is just another word for psychic. Maybe that's why we perceive his quotes as revelations. They leave a deep mark on our hearts.

1. Knowing the darkness within yourself is the best way to deal with the darkness in others.

1. Consider life as a dream among a thousand dreams, and each dream as a certain approach to reality. You can get into it if you have a magic key.

1. Sleep is a hidden little door that leads to the most secret and intimate corners of the soul and opens into the cosmic night.

1. Don't hold back someone who leaves you. Otherwise, the one who comes to you will not come.

1. People will do anything they can, no matter how absurd, to avoid coming face to face with their soul.

1. What you resist remains.

1. I am not what happened to me, I am what I decided to become.

1. Your vision will only become clear if you can look into your heart. Those who look outside see only dreams.

1. Just because you are a gifted person does not mean you have received anything. This means you have something to give.

1. There is no doubt that the shock of emotional experience is often necessary to make people wake up and take notice of what they are doing.

1. What we consciously try not to notice is often captured by our unconscious, which transmits information in the form of dreams.

1. What is the difference between a genius and a madman? The madman sees, but does not know how to convey it. And a genius can translate this into the language of consciousness.

1. To be “normal” is the ideal for the loser, for all those who have not yet managed to rise to the level of general requirements. But for those who are much above average, for whom it was not difficult to achieve success by doing their share of worldly work, for such people the framework of the norm means a Procrustean bed, unbearable boredom, hellish hopelessness and hopelessness. As a result, many become neurotic because they are simply normal, while others suffer from neurosis because they cannot become normal.

1. Everyone is separated from each other by secrets, and deceptive bridges of opinions and illusions lead across the gaps between people instead of a strong bridge of recognition.

1. The heaviest burden that falls on a child’s shoulders is the unlived life of his parents.

1. Loneliness is not caused by the absence of people around, but by the inability to talk with people about what seems important to you, or the unacceptability of your views to others.

1. Depression is like a lady in black. If she comes, do not drive her away, but invite her to the table as a guest, and listen to what she intends to say.

1. Man is an animal that has gone mad. There are two ways out of this madness: he must become an animal again; or become more than human.

1. Ultimately, neurosis should be understood as the suffering of a soul that does not find its meaning. About a third of my cases are suffering not from some clinically detectable neurosis, but from the meaninglessness and aimlessness of one’s own life.

1. If we are not aware of what is happening inside us, then from the outside it seems to us that this is fate.

1. Everything that irritates others can lead to understanding oneself.

1. They say that no tree can grow to heaven unless its roots reach hell. The ambiguity of movement is inherent in the nature of the pendulum.
2. There is little value in knowing when someone else is making a mistake. It is much more interesting to know when you yourself commit it, because then there is an opportunity to somehow correct it. What we could improve in others is usually of dubious usefulness, if it achieves anything at all.
3. Arrogance comes before a fall.

1. We may think we are in complete control of ourselves; however, a friend can easily tell us things about us that we have no idea about.

1. He who is afraid needs dependence, just as a weak person needs support.

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