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Carl Jung (Carl Gustav Jung)

(1875 – 1961) Often referred to as C. G. Jung. A Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. He proposed and developed the concepts of extraversion and introversion; archetypes, and the collective unconscious. His work has been influential in psychiatry and in the study of religion, philosophy, archeology, anthropology, literature, and related fields. He was a prolific writer, many of whose works were not published until after his death. Also he is one of the best known contemporary contributors to dream analysis and symbolization.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.