Carl Jung

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Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt.

Carl Jung

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Fanaticism

Speaker

Carl Jung

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1935 1930s 20th century

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Original Citation

Jung, Carl. Lecture five of the Tavistock lectures. 1935, Tavistock Clinic, London, England, UK.

Current Citation

Jung, Carl. The Symbolic Life: Miscellaneous Writings. Routledge, 2014, pt. 1, lecture 5.

You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.

Carl Jung

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Topic

God and man Decline of religion God Human nature

Author

Carl Jung

Source

The Undiscovered Self

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

German

Time

1958 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Jung, Carl. Gegenwart und Zukunft [The Undiscovered Self], translated by R. F. C. Hull. Routledge & Kegen Paul, 1958.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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Topic

Personal chemistry Connecting with others Man as social animal

Author

Carl Jung

Source

Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

German

Time

1933 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Jung, Carl. "Problems of Modern Psychology." Modern Man in Search of a Soul, translated by Cary F. Baynes and William Stanley Dell. Kegen Paul, Trenche, Trubner & Co., 1933.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.

Carl Jung

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Topic

Facing oneself Existential terror Self-knowledge Distraction Human nature

Author

Carl Jung

Source

Psychology and Alchemy

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

German

Time

1944 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Jung, Carl. Psychologie un Alchemie [Psychology and Alchemy] Routledge, 1944.

Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.

Carl Jung

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Civilization Progress Human nature

Author

Carl Jung

Source

Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

German

Time

1933 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Jung, Carl. "Archaic Man." Modern Man in Search of a Soul, translated by Cary F. Baynes and William Stanley Dell. Kegen Paul, Trenche, Trubner & Co., 1933.

The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

Carl Jung

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Topic

Middle age Youth vs. old age

Author

Carl Jung

Source

The Stages of Life

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

German

Time

1931 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Jung, Carl. "Die Lebenswende." Seelenprobleme der Gegenwart. Rascher, 1931.

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

Carl Jung

Psychological Types

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Topic

Imagination

Author

Carl Jung

Source

Psychological Types

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

German

Time

1921 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Jung, Carl. Psychologische Typen [Psychological Types]. Rascher Verlag, 1921.

Current Citation

Jung, Carl. Psychological Types, edited by R. F. C. Hull, translated by H. G. Baynes. Princeton University Press, 1976.

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Carl Jung

The Psychology of the Unconscious

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Topic

Love Power Yin and y ang

Author

Carl Jung

Source

The Psychology of the Unconscious

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

German

Time

1912 1910s 20th century

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Original Citation

Jung, Carl. Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido [The Psychology of the Unconscious]. F. Deuticke, 1912.

Current Citation

Jung, Carl. "On the Psychology of the Unconscious." The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, translated by R. F. C. Hull. Vol. 7, Princeton University Press, 1972, pt. 4.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, or morphine or idealism.

Carl Jung

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Topic

Addiction

Author

Carl Jung

Source

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Language

German

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Jung, Carl and Aniela Jaffé. Erinnerungen, Träume, Gedanken [Memories, Dreams, Reflections], translated by Richard and Clara Winston. Exlibris, 1962.

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word "happy" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Carl Jung

Quoted in The Times of London

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Topic

Night and day Happiness Sadness Yin and yang

Speaker

Carl Jung

Source

The Times of London

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Jung, Carl. "The Art of Living." Sunday Times, 17 July 1960.

Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so.

Carl Jung

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Judging the past Past and present

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Carl Jung

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Synchronizität Als Ein Prinzip Akausaler Zusammenhänge [Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle]

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

German

Time

1952 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Jung, Carl. Synchronizität Als Ein Prinzip Akausaler Zusammenhänge [Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle]. Princeton University Press, 1960.

The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive.

Carl Jung

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Self-destruction Nature of life Life

Author

Carl Jung

Source

Psychology and Alchemy

Genre

Psychological literature

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

German

Time

1944 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Jung, Carl. Psychologie un Alchemie [Psychology and Alchemy] Routledge, 1944.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Carl Jung

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Topic

Overcoming adversity Adversity Human nature

Author

Carl Jung

Source

The Transcendent Function

Medium

Essay

Language

German

Time

1916 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Jung, Carl. Die Tranzendente Funktion [The Transcendent Function]. C. G. Jung Institute, 1957.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Carl Jung

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Topic

The mind Right and wrong The human condition

Author

Carl Jung

Source

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

German

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Jung, Carl and Aniela Jaffé. Erinnerungen, Träume, Gedanken [Memories, Dreams, Reflections], translated by Richard and Clara Winston. Exlibris, 1962.

I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him.

Carl Jung

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Topic

God and man God

Author

Carl Jung

Source

Letters of Carl Jung

Medium

Letter

Language

German

Time

1952 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Jung, Carl. Letter to an unnamed clergyman. 1952.

While reflecting an indisputable aspect of reality, it can falsify the actual truth in a most misleading way.

Carl Jung

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Topic

The law of averages

Author

Carl Jung

Source

The Undiscovered Self

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

German

Time

1958 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Jung, Carl. Gegenwart und Zukunft [The Undiscovered Self], translated by R. F. C. Hull. Routledge & Kegen Paul, 1958.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

Carl Jung

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Topic

Reason and emotion Reason Emotions

Author

Carl Jung

Source

Psychological Types

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

German

Time

1921 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Jung, Carl. Psychologische Typen [Psychological Types]. Rascher Verlag, 1921.

Current Citation

Jung, Carl. Psychological Types, edited by R. F. C. Hull, translated by H. G. Baynes. Princeton University Press, 1976.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Carl Jung

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Raising kids Parents and children Change starts at home Self-improvement Personal growth

Author

Carl Jung

Source

The Development of Personality

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

German

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Jung, Carl. The Integration of Personality, translated by Stanley Dell. Farrar & Rinehart, 1939.

The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.

Carl Jung

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Topic

Decisions and choices Reason and emotion Intuition Reason

Author

Carl Jung

Source

Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

German

Time

1933 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Jung, Carl. "Aims of Psychotherapy." Modern Man in Search of a Soul, translated by Cary F. Baynes and William Stanley Dell. Kegen Paul, Trenche, Trubner & Co., 1933.