Carl Jung Philosopher
- Gender: Male
- Citizenship: Switzerland
- Born: Jul 26, 1875
- Died: Jun 6, 1961
Carl Gustav Jung, often referred to as C. G. Jung, was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. Jung 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, though many of his works were not published until after his death.
The central concept of analytical psychology is individuation—the psychological process of integrating the opposites, including the conscious with the unconscious, while still maintaining their relative autonomy. Jung considered individuation to be the central process of human development.
Jung created some of the best known psychological concepts, including the archetype, the collective unconscious, the complex, and synchronicity. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, a popular psychometric instrument, was developed from Jung's theory of psychological types.
Jung saw the human psyche as "by nature religious" and made this religiousness the focus of his explorations.
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
death
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
imagination
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
happiness & sadness
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
imagination
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
best
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
intelligence
Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.
dreams
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
intelligence & truth
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
change
The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
life
A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
music
Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.
health
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
experience
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
history
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
parenting
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.
dreams
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
experience
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.
love & power