Carl Gustav Jung was one of the most fervent disciples of Freud and psychoanalysis, until in his personal evolution, he discovered his own theory about the unconscious that gives a new meaning to this human characteristic. With his work on the 'collective unconscious', which derives from all those patterns or archetypes that we inherit from our environment and in turn transmit in it, he entered history. These archetypes are fed by the personal experiences that each one lives while finding their complete identity.
Great phrases and reflections of Carl Jung
Next we will see a set of phrases and reflections by Carl Jung, which can teach you all that background that exists in human interactions and the meaning that they acquire depending on the way in which each one sees it .
one. Life not lived is a disease from which one can die.
There is nothing more true than this sentence.
2. The meeting of two people is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is a reaction, both are transformed.
A beautiful metaphor about the connection between two people.
3. When love is the norm, there is no will to power, and where power prevails, love is lacking.
Love should not be restrictive but a space to grow.
4. Everything that irritates us about others leads us to an understanding of ourselves.
Also known as projection.
5. Whoever looks outside sleeps and whoever looks inside wakes up.
We must first know ourselves in order to effectively face the world.
6. Your vision will become clearer only when you look into your heart.
We perceive things depending on how we experience them.
7. Don't hold back who walks away from you. Because that way those who want to get closer will not arrive.
People who want to stay by your side will.
8. Often the hands will solve a mystery with which the intellect has struggled in vain.
There are things that are resolved through actions and not plans.
9. Loneliness does not come from not having people around you, but from not being able to communicate the things that seem important to you, or from holding certain points of view that others consider inadmissible.
The way loneliness attacks us.
10. Know all the theories. Master all the techniques, but when touching a human soul be just another human soul.
In matters of feelings, we cannot act coldly.
eleven. The psychotherapist must see each patient and each case as something new, as something unique, wonderful and exceptional. Only then will you be closer to the truth.
The correct way according to Jung to interact with a patient.
12. All of us born originals and die copies.
Do you think this is true?
13. There is no language that cannot be misinterpreted. Each interpretation is hypothetical, as it is a simple attempt to read an unknown text.
Every interpretation is a unique and personal action. That's why everyone has their opinion about it
14. Through pride we deceive ourselves. But deep down, below the surface of consciousness, a still small voice tells us that something is out of tune.
There will always be a voice that tries to guide us on the right path.
fifteen. Astrology represents the sum of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.
For Jung, astrology was a fundamental part of humanity.
16. Show me a he althy human being and I'll cure it for you.
We all have our problems to deal with.
17. The debt we owe to our imagination is incalculable.
Our imagination allows us to reach points far beyond our capacity.
18. A man who has not passed through the hell of his passions has never overcome them.
You have to get to the bottom of an issue in order to fully resolve it.
19. One does not achieve enlightenment by fantasizing about the light but by becoming aware of the darkness.
A phrase to reflect on.
twenty. There are as many nights as there are days, and each one lasts the same as the day that comes after it.
Every day is the same, but everyone lives it differently.
twenty-one. Even the happiest life cannot be measured without a few moments of darkness, and the word happy would be meaningless if it were not balanced by sadness.
Life is made up of happy moments and difficulties.
22. If you don't understand another person he tends to consider you crazy
We understand to the extent that the other lets us know him.
23. You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.
A reference to the need to believe in a deity.
24. The smallest things with meaning are worth more in life than the biggest things without it.
Each one gives the importance that he deserves to his things.
25. The wine of adolescence does not always clear as the years go by, sometimes it becomes cloudy.
That is why it is important to resolve any type of conflict in time so as not to drag it down.
26. The man who does not perceive the drama of his own end is not in normality but in pathology, and he would have to lie down on the stretcher and let himself be cured.
A reference to the fact that the fear of death is natural.
27. If there is something we want to change in a child, we must first examine it and see if it is not something we must change in ourselves.
Many of the things we want to remove from someone else, we want to remove from ourselves.
28. What is not made conscious manifests itself in our lives as destiny.
Everything in life is written, you just have to open your eyes to see it.
29. When the most intense conflicts are overcome, they leave a feeling of security and tranquility that is not easily disturbed.
A beautiful way to look at conflict resolutions.
30. What you deny submits you, what you accept transforms you.
Accept more and deny less.
31. What you resist, persists.
The more we refuse to change, the more what we drag will weigh on us.
32. Life and spirit are two great powers or necessities between which the human being is placed.
There is no life without the spirit we put into it.
33. Those who do not learn anything from the unpleasant facts of life force the cosmic consciousness to reproduce them as many times as necessary to learn what the drama of what happened teaches.
Another phrase that reminds us that we must face problems before they consume us.
3. 4. People do whatever, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own soul.
It's not nice for anyone to face themselves.
35. The main function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance.
A sample of how significant sleep is for us.
36. It is only these intense conflicts and their conflagration that are needed to produce worthwhile and lasting results.
You don't just have to experience conflicts, you have to find a solution.
37. The scariest thing is to fully accept yourself.
We are always afraid to look inside ourselves.
38. If it were not a fact of experience that the supreme values reside in the Soul, Psychology would not interest me in the slightest, since the Soul would then be nothing more than a miserable vapor.
A sample of Jung's existential character.
39. From mid-life onward, only he who is prepared to die alive remains vital.
This phrase refers to accepting death as a process of life.
40. We tend towards the past, towards our parents and forward, towards our children, a future that we will never see, but that we want to take care of.
Concern for the past and the future.
41. The word “happiness” would lose its meaning if it is not balanced with sadness.
We cannot appreciate moments of happiness without weighing some sadness.
42. Knowing your own darkness is the best way to deal with other people's darkness.
When we understand our struggle, we can understand that of others.
43. It all depends on how we see things, and not on the way they are in themselves.
For us, things are as we see them.
44. We cannot change anything without first understanding. Condemnation does not release, it oppresses.
Before modifying something it is important to know everything about it.
Four. Five. It is much better to take things as they come, with patience and equanimity.
It is useless to rush or anticipate the facts.
46. I am not what happened to me, I am what I chose to be.
There are those who decide if their experiences mark them or help them grow.
47. You are what you do, not what you say you are going to do.
Actions speak louder than any words.
48. All Mythology can be understood as a kind of projection of the collective unconscious.
A sample of Jung's beliefs.
49. The word "belief" is somewhat difficult for me. I don `t believe. I have to have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know one thing, and then I know that I don't need to believe.
Your own opinion about believing.
fifty. Children learn from what adults do, not from what they say.
Children imitate the movement of adults around them.
51. Depression is like a lady in black. If she arrives, don't expel her, rather invite her as a diner at the table, and listen to what she has to say.
Although it may not be pleasant, Jung strongly believed that we must accept every internal process to solve it.
52. Only a fool is interested in the guilt of others, since he cannot change it.
A way of describing people who are always criticizing.
53. As a child I felt very lonely, and I still do, because I know things and must allude to things that others apparently don't know at all, and most don't want to know.
A proof that some feelings never change.
54. If you are a talented person, it does not mean that you have already received something. It means you can give something.
Interesting way to see natural talents.
55. The wise man learns only from his own guilt.
Accept responsibility for our actions.
56. The small world of childhood with its family environment is a model of the world.
Each child sees the world as it is home to her
57. The task of people is to become aware of the contents that ascend from the unconscious.
The unconscious has something to tell us all the time and we must listen.
58. The larger the crowd, the more insignificant the person.
The strength of the collective.
59. We should not pretend to understand the world only through the intellect, since it is only part of the truth.
The world is made up of logic and feelings.
60. There can be no transformation from darkness to light and from apathy to emotionless movement.
Any conflict is difficult to assume due to its emotional charge.
61. I simply believe that some part of the human self or soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.
Another fragment that lets us see the psychologist's humanistic side.
62. We can come to think that we control ourselves completely. However, a friend can easily tell us something about us that we had no idea about.
It's not just our internal reasoning that counts, but how others perceive us.
63. The shoe that fits one man squeezes another; there is no recipe for life that works in all cases.
A very important lesson to learn.
64. The human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body, and there can be no transformation without taking emotions into account.
The body and mind is a union.
65. Knowledge rests not only on truth but also on error.
Mistakes always bring great lessons.
66. Life cannot be happy without a little darkness.
To be able to appreciate the happy moments, it is necessary to go through the bitter ones.
67. "Magical" is just another word for the soul.
Jung considered that the soul is the one that contains all our essence.
68. The great talents are the most charming and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang on the thinnest branches and are easy to break.
Sometimes someone promising can become a tyrant.
69. Freedom extends only to the limits of our consciousness.
Each one should be responsible for his own freedom
70. The more intensely the family forms character, the better the child will adapt to the world.
The world for children begins at home.
71. Thinking is difficult, that's why many people judge.
People tend to point first before analyzing.
72. Nothing has a stronger psychological influence on your environment and especially on your children than the unlived life of a parent.
There are parents who place unrealistic dreams in their children that they could not fulfill.
73. No one, as long as they move among the chaotic currents of life, is without problems.
We all have unfinished business.
74. Until you become aware of what you carry in your unconscious, the latter will direct your life and you will call it destiny.
Destiny is forged with our actions.
75. We cannot live the evening of life with the same program as the morning, because what was a lot in the morning will be little in the evening, and what was true in the morning will be false in the afternoon.
Each stage of life has its own way of being lived.
76. Shame is a soul-consuming emotion.
For Jung, shame is an evil that consumes us.
77. One way or another we are parts of one all-encompassing mind, one great man…
Talking about the collective unconscious.
78. The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you really are.
So fight to be that version you want.
79. We were born at a certain time, in a certain place and, just as you add the years to a wine, we have the qualities of the year and the season from which we were born. Astrology claims nothing more.
Jung was a great believer in astrology.
80. There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
All truth brings with it much sorrow.
81. The great decisions of human life have, as a general rule, much more to do with instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and a sense of reasonableness.
Sometimes it is necessary to listen to our instincts.
82. Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has ever been born.
All ingenuity comes from the imagination.
83. The pendulum of the mind alternates between meaning and nonsense, not between good and evil.
We always think between what is right and wrong.
84. The dream is a small hidden door opening to the cosmic night that was the soul long before the appearance of consciousness.
A somewhat mystical view of sleep.
85. Everything in creation is essentially subjective and the dream is a theater where the dreamer is at once stage, actor, manager, author, public and critic.
The things we attach importance to are mostly subjective.
86. Emotion is the main source of conscious processes.
We are nothing without our emotions.
87. People need difficulties; are necessary for he alth.
Each difficulty motivates us to grow.
88. In what is possible for us to achieve, the only meaning of human existence consists in turning on a light in the darkness of mere being.
You can never give up hope completely.
89. The unconscious is not something bad by nature, it is also the source of well-being. Not only darkness but also light, not only bestial and demonic, but also spiritual and divine.
Many fear and shy away from the unconscious because they don't want to face what lives there.
90. Without freedom there can be no morality.
Freedom is the foundation of any society.